No new coal fired power stations - campaign planning meeting
12-4pm, Sun September 5
Conference room,
City West Lotteries House,
2 Delhi St, West Perth
(venue confirmed!)
Community opposition to coal mining at Margaret River
If climate change were caused by aliens...
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Report: Oceans' demise near irreversible - moving towards the tipping point
[By Les Blumenthal, McClatchy Newspapers. July 4.]
WASHINGTON -- A sobering new report warns that oceans face a "fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation" not seen in millions of years as greenhouse gases and climate change already have affected temperature, acidity, sea and oxygen levels, the food chain and possibly major currents that could alter global weather.
Zero Carbon Australia 2020 Stationary Energy Plan wins a hearing
Inside and outside the climate action movement, people concerned about climate change want a transition to an economy that reduces our greenhouse gas emissions.
The science is alarming and indicates that to avert substantial climate impacts and return to a safe climate, humans must not only move towards emitting no carbon dioxide at all, but find ways to remove existing carbon dioxide from that atmosphere.
Community Survey on World Environment Day
On World Environment Day, Saturday June 5, Safe Climate Perth activists spent a few hours in Northbridge with a stall focussed on the 100% renewaOppose oil drilling at Margaret River
A campaign is underway to stop the oil drilling proposed for Margaret River. Pictured is an outreach action in Perth on 3 June 2010. There was also a rally in Margaret River on 8 May. Below is a media release from the Conservation Council from 17 May 2010.
NEW MARGARET RIVER OIL LEASE RISKS SW MARINE LIFE
AMWU adopts motion for 100 per cent renewable energy by 2020
The WA branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union took the exciting step of adopting the following motion which calls for 100% renewable energy by 2002. The motion was proposed by John Sharp-Collett, Secretary of the Retired Members Division. It was adopted on 27 May 2010 at the WA state conference of the AMWU.
100% renewable energy by 2020 motion
Replace Hazelwood with renewable energy
Rudd climate backflip raises pressure to Replace Hazelwood
MEDIA RELEASE: from Climate Action Centre - Thursday, 6 May 2010
In the wake of the Rudd Government’s backflip on climate change and uncertainty about the future of carbon pricing, environment and community groups today rallied outside Parliament House to call for the replacement of Australia’s dirtiest power station.
