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Forever Planting (for Peak Oil & Climate Change)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 01/02/2012 - 4:13pm

We depend utterly on fossil fuels, especially to grow our food. From natural gas comes the millions of tons of fertilizers. Oil provides herbicides and pesticides. All is planted and harvested with oil power, driven, shipped or flown to your table.

For now. Until fossil fuels become too expensive, too rare, too polluting to use. We only have a short time to find other ways.

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Campaign launch: Stop Ta Ann from destroying Tasmania's forests

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 31/01/2012 - 6:00pm

TAKING THE ACTION ONLINE - http://taann.com.au/take-action-now/

A new campaign targeting Ta Ann Tasmania and their ongoing use of Tasmanian high conservation value (HCV) forests launches today. Taan.com.au is a partnership between Markets for Change, Huon Valley Environment Centre and The Last Stand.

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Tasmanian Logging protest

Billboard liberated in Melbourne for Invasion day

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 29/01/2012 - 9:33am

Please see attached picture of a billboard that was liberated on the eve of invasion day. What a nice thing to stumble across on my way home late one night.

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Biodiversity crisis: Habitat loss and climate change causing 6th mass extinction

Submitted by takver on Sun, 22/01/2012 - 11:51pm

Scientists meeting at the University of Copenhagen have warned that biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world, describing the loss of species as the 6th mass extinction event on the earth. The world is losing species at a rate that is 100 to 1000 times faster than the natural extinction rate, with the challenges of conserving the world's species larger than mitigating the negative effects of global climate change.

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The Brutal Logic of Climate Change

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 22/01/2012 - 3:28am

http://bit.ly/wulkTw "The future is impossible" says Dr. Kevin Anderson, former Director of UK's top climate research institute, the Tyndall Centre. Speech in London lays out our awful tilt toward an unlivable climate. Followed by discussion with Washington's Dr. William Calvin.

Are you ready for the bad news about climate change? Really?

I'm going to play you a speech too awful to run during the holidays.

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END:CIV director Franklin López to tour Australia

Submitted by stimulator on Fri, 20/01/2012 - 9:08am

END:CIV director Franklin López to tour Australia.

END:CIV illustrates the brutality of a civilization addicted to
systematic violence and environmental destruction, and the heroism of
those who confront it head-on.

As Australia is beginning to experience more frequent environmental
crises resulting from climate change and a history of poor environmental
management this film will be instrumental in bringing awareness of the
need to confront the system which allows this destruction to continue.

López’s will answer questions from the audience and lead a discussion

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Biodiversity a crucial climate change buffer for ecosystem and cultural diversity

Submitted by takver on Wed, 18/01/2012 - 2:03pm

A new multi-author scientific study says that preservation of plant biodiversity provides a crucial buffer to negative effects of climate change and desertification in drylands. Preventing ecosystem degredation in a warming world is significant with drylands particularly vulnerable to environmental changes and desertification. Dryland ecosystems cover 41% of the land surface of the Earth and support 38% of the human population.

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Climate activists protest spying and surveillance authorised by energy minister Martin Ferguson

Submitted by takver on Fri, 13/01/2012 - 4:37pm

Martin Ferguson, Minister for Resources and Energy has pushed for increased surveillance of environmental and climate activists protesting coal-fired power stations and coal export facilities, after he was directly lobbied by coal and energy infrastructure companies.

Climate and Environment activists along with Occupy Melbourne paid a call on thursday afternoon to Martin Ferguson's electoral office at 159 High Street, Preston. The office, of course, was closed early supposedly on occupational health and safety grounds, and had a Federal and Victorian police presence.

Related: Northcote Independent - That's a pretty clear "No" to Ferguson's NOSIC | Photos by Takver

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Species biodiversity under threat from the velocity of climate change

Submitted by takver on Wed, 04/01/2012 - 3:21am

Scientists have been able to calculate the velocity of climate change on land and ocean environments using temperature records to determine isotherms and their change in a fifty year period from 1960 to 2009. So how fast are climate envelopes moving? The general median answer is 27.3 km/decade on land, and 21.7 km/decade in the ocean. This equates to a speed needed to outrun climate change on land (2.7 kilometers per year) and in the oceans (2.2 kilometers per year). This rate of movement of thermal climate envelopes poses problems for species facing a high speed migration, or a difficult and abrupt adaptation or extinction.

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NSW set to hinder wind energy with onerous planning regulations

Submitted by takver on Fri, 23/12/2011 - 8:31pm

The NSW Draft planning regulations on wind farms was released on Friday December 23: on the very last working day before Christmas. You don't need to be a cynic to understand the Barrie O'Farrell conservative Government wants to bury news coverage of these draft planning regulations which impose strict limits on wind farm development which are very similar in scope to the draconian Victorian wind farm planning regultions.

"The new wind guidelines introduced today place more rigourous requirements on wind projects than on any other project development in the state." said Lindsay Soutar, national coordinator of the community 100% Renewable campaign. "While coal and coal seam gas get the red carpet, wind power just gets more red tape."

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