Inside Climate News reports that an American federal judge “has blocked a coal project in the wilds of Colorado because federal agencies failed to consider the future global-warming damages from burning fossil fuels.” U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson’s decision halts exploration proposed by Arch Coal that would have bulldozed six miles of roads…
Well what a tumultuous week. We got a new Senate which has shifted the balance of power, to the roguish and unknown. The end of the financial year brought its usual financial crescendo and fixed foreign fortunes. The themometer crashed to what we know better as winter in these parts. And then there was the…
In 1996 the Howard government implemented the Green Corps program which employed young people in environmental projects including the propagation and planting of over 14 million trees. Now the Abbott government is creating a similar body, a Green Army of 15,000 young people that will engage in a range of environmental projects including tree planting and…
Our Government might be isolating itself globally on climate change and pretending that if we just shut everything down it will go away but that doesn’t mean we are all powerless to take responsibility for our climate future. Big financiers are stepping up to shift our economies away from high emissions technologies and environmental threatening…
Common Room (1.50) Allen House CSU (1431) at 5pm.
“We are also seeing an increased focus on the risks of stranded fossil fuel assets, evidenced by growing divestiture trends” Thea Ormerod, president of the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change, recently gave a presentation at Rahamim on the benefits of channeling our investments away from fossil fuel industries. As Thea explained, “voting with our…
The Renewable Energy Target (RET) scheme aims to increase renewable energy generation and hence reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector. It was designed to deliver the equivalent of 20 per cent of Australia’s electricity from renewable sources by 2020. Central New South Wales Renewable Energy Co-operative Ltd (CENREC) is a community-based organisation established…
BY: Tracey Carpenter The budget is all over the news, and the analysis is everywhere – it’s cruel; it’s necessary; it’s broken promises; we didn’t have a crisis until now ….. But we haven’t heard much about the budget impacts on land, water and energy or the environment that is critical to everyone’s future. Before…
The wide community support for our kangaroos has invited the interest of University of Technology’s Faculty of Science, with the result that UTS is establishing a kangaroo research program in the Bathurst region. Dr Daniel Ramp is Director of UTS Science’s Centre for Compassionate Conservation and Senior Lecturer in the School of the Environment. He…
Location: Common Room (1.50) Allen House CSU (1431) Key discussion points: Mini hydro and Chifley dam. Flyers Creek update … Renewable Energy Targets. Thriveecology Congress Promotion of Solar Panels amongst the business community. (IT) Funding and agreements between landlords and tenants. Identifying suitable community owned buildings. Divestment at CSU. Keep solar strong postcards.