Melbourne

Nuclear Freeways 2010 Melbourne LAUNCH
AT MARTIN FERGUSON'S OFFICE

This Friday July 30th marks the launch of Friends of the Earths Nuclear Freeways campaign. A delegation of Friends of the Earth members and Batman electorate residents will travel over 3,000ks on one of the proposed routes for the transport for Australia's radioactive waste.

The group will meet with numerous councils, community groups, and emergency services organisations on the transport route from Lucas Heights to Muckaty.

Guest speaker: Dr Alex Wonhas, Director, Energy Transformed Flagship CSIRO.

Dr Alex Wonhas joined CSIRO directly from McKinsey & Company where he was one of the co-authors of McKinsey’s Carbon Abatement Cost Curve for Australia. He took up the role as CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship Director in August 2009. The Flagship aims to lower greenhouse gas emissions by providing sustainable, efficient, cost-effective energy solutions. Dr Wonhas will present an overview of his work including:

- Australia’s first Zero Emissions House (Aus ZEH),

- Energy efficiency for commercial buildings,

We’re doing our bit on climate change. It's time to make our political leaders do theirs. This election join a Walk near you and help us convince our political leaders to: Walk with the people. Not the Big Polluters.

While our political leaders have been squabbling, the rest of us have been getting on with the business of dealing with climate change.

We're going green and clean. We're reducing our greenhouse pollution and recycling our waste. We're saving water and energy, and buying greenpower. And we're forming climate action groups - all across the country.

During this election season, Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective invites you to join a panel discussion on the Northern Territory Intervention.

The Intervention was brought in by John Howard in his dying days as PM, and has been continued with vigour by the Labor Government under its Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin.