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Burst of carbon from Indonesian peat fires - and India coal mania

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 30/09/2011 - 4:25am

Listen to this Radio Ecoshock special on Indonesian peat fires and India coal mania here: http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock11/ES_110928_Show_LoFi.mp3

While we worry about the economy here, developments in Indonesia and India could change the climate for generations.

Nobody is reporting on this. The peat fires in Sumatra are blanketing Singapore and Malaysia. None can put them out. Huge carbon emissions. Last time, these fires in 1997 doubled the rate of increase in greenhouse gas emissions globally.

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Thousands attend Moving Planet climate change actions in Australia and globally

Submitted by takver on Mon, 26/09/2011 - 10:17pm

Did you miss the action over the weekend? Thousands of people around the world from Cairo to Canberra participated in events to move the planet beyond fossil fuels. There were over 2000 events in more than 175 countries with more than 40 Moving Planet events taking place across Australia from the Blue Mountains, Hobart, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Darwin, Sydney and Melbourne joining the thousands of events taking place around the globe.

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Earthworker Cooperative starts campaign for community owned renewable energy manufacturing in Australia

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 5:12pm

After the success of the campaign launch in Morwell last month the Earthworker Cooperative is now launching the 100,000 Australians Campaign nationally.

“We are going to grow Australian manufacturing jobs which produce the renewable energy goods and work our way out of the climate emergency,” says Dave Kerin, national coordinator of the 100,000 Australians Campaign.

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Impacts of climate change on the NSW south coast and Illawarra regions

Submitted by takver on Thu, 28/07/2011 - 12:24am

A new report by the Climate Commission says the Illawarra region and South Coast of NSW highlights the increasing risks of the impacts of climate change. These impacts include an increase in the likelihood of large and intense fires as temperatures increase, rising sea levels causing coastal flooding of buildings and infrastructure, changing rainfall patterns and more intense storms increasing the dangers of severe flooding, and impacts to the regional biodiversity.

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UFO Sylvia Creek logging coup

Submitted by United Natures on Wed, 27/07/2011 - 5:27pm

UFO Sylvia Creek logging coup video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkkKATlak6Q

UFO Sylvia Creek logging coup is a video to raise awareness of the destruction of habitat for a rare species of possum in Sylvia Creek and planned logging of water catchment in beautiful Cement Creek, both survivors of the Black Saturday Bushfires in 2009 near Melbourne Australia. Now help them survive GovCorp vandalism.

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Platypus feeling the heat of climate change

Submitted by takver on Sat, 23/07/2011 - 3:08pm

Some of Australia's most iconic animals are feeling the heat of climate change and global warming. New scientific research shows the Platypus is under threat due to increasing summer temperatures. The scientific paper - Early response of the platypus to climate warming - is to be published in the international scientific journal 'Global Change Biology' later this year.

Related: Scientists have already reported that Koalas face starvation, extinction due to climate change

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Price on Carbon Pollution: Give facts a head start

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 17/07/2011 - 11:13pm

As the carbon price announcement went live, politicians and polluter lobbies were in a frenzy. Check out this video to make sense of all the noise - and read our FAQs about why the sky won't fall in. If you're looking for other ways to keep momentum building, check out this community letter - it's a great way to keep your neighbourhood talking why about a price on pollution matters.

* How will the carbon price work?

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Conservationists arrested protesting logging in Tasmania and Sarawak by Malaysian Company Ta Ann

Submitted by takver on Sun, 17/07/2011 - 4:59pm

Conservationists have today participated in a protest on Hobart's wharf, where a vessel is being loaded for the Malaysian logging company Ta Ann. The protest highlights the ongoing loss of high conservation value temperate forests in Tasmania and the rapacious logging of tropical rainforests of Borneo and destructon of habitat for Orangutan and dispossession of the indigenous Penan people from their ancestral forests and lands.

"Four conservationists have attached themselves to the vessel, we are participating in today's non violent protest to highlight the ongoing loss of high conservation value forests," Huon Valley Environment Centre's Jenny Weber said.

Youtube video | Photos of the action

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The great Indymedia climate debate

Submitted by Flowerpower on Sat, 16/07/2011 - 8:59am

The mainstream press is prosecuting a farce of a carbon tax “debate”. In the one corner opposing the tax you have climate denialists, middle class welfare recipients complaining about their lack of “compensation” and billionaires such as Twiggy Forest and Gerry Harvery masquerading as “ordinary” Australians. In the other corner are the ALP and the Green’s arguing that the carbon tax is a bold step towards solving climate change and anyone who opposes them is a selfish climate denialist.

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