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ANIMA MUNDI - David Holmgren, Vandana Shiva, Michael Ruppert, Noam Chomsky, Garbage Warrior, Permablitz

Submitted by United Natures on Mon, 14/02/2011 - 7:37pm

ANIMA MUNDI - documentary due for release in 2011 - Permaculture, Peak Oil, Climate Change and the Gaia theory featuring David Holmgren (co-founder of permaculture), Dr Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsky, Michael C Ruppert, Michael Reynolds (Garbage Warrior), Dr Stephan Harding, Permablitz and others. ANIMA MUNDI trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5nonw66leU

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Art of the Ashes: the 2009 ‘Emergence’ Exhibition at Federation Square

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 09/02/2011 - 9:26pm

By Kristy Henderson

Inspired by the impacts of, and the recovery process that followed, the 2009 Victorian bushfires the exhibition ‘Emergence – art on the move’, currently on display in the Atrium at Federation Square, is both sobering and uplifting. It is a testament to the diverse challenges and emotions that confronted bushfire-affected communities in the wake of the fires.

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Garnaut warns costs of inaction on climate change will escalate

Submitted by takver on Sun, 06/02/2011 - 3:39pm

On Thursday evening Professor Ross Garnaut launched his latest climate update report - Weighing the costs and benefits of climate change action - for the Federal parliament Multi-Party Climate Change Committee, warning we are already seeing the results of global warming in the intensification of extreme weather events in Australia.

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Media covers up metropolitan Melbourne’s biggest rain event on record

Submitted by Flowerpower on Sat, 05/02/2011 - 10:36pm

By 9AM on Saturday February 5th, areas of Melbourne Metropolitan area had received their highest rainfall total on record. Although the rain event has been extensively reported, the historically significant level of these rains has been almost completely unremarked upon in the mainstream press. For example Berwick in Melbourne’s South East received, 168mm and Officer receiving an incredible 195mm

The only comparable events in the last hundred years were in December 1934, February 1973 and Feb 2005. An examination of table from the Bureau of Meteorology shows that the rainfall total for Officer was the highest on record for any Melbourne suburb since records began. This oversight fits the pattern of the mainstream media attempting to normalise extreme climate events to prevent the public from clamouring for action on climate change.

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Cyclone Yasi spells disaster for flood ravaged Queensland

Submitted by takver on Tue, 01/02/2011 - 12:26am

Tropical Cyclone Yasi may become Queensland's second extreme weather disaster within a month, with the potential to rival the destructive power of Hurricane Katrina that destroyed New Orleans in 2005. Cyclone Yasi is likely to hit the Queensland coast as a Category 4 storm with winds of 250-260 km per hour on late Wednesday or early Thursday.

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REDD under fire for narrow focus on carbon storage, risk to indigenous peoples

Submitted by takver on Fri, 28/01/2011 - 5:16pm

A new report from some of the world's top experts on forest governance has criticised various international climate change accords including REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) and REDD+ for their narrow focus on carbon storage which fails to stop rampant destruction of the world's most vulnerable forests and acts to further marginalise indigenous peoples.

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Clive Hamilton and David Shoebridge to support Rising Tide 7 - Trial this week

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 27/01/2011 - 10:00am

Rising Tide Newcastle: MEDIA ALERT Clive Hamilton, the founding director of the Australia Institute, will join Rising Tide and Greens MP David Shoebridge in a panel of speakers in Newcastle this Friday, January 28 to support the seven climate activists being pursued for $525 000 in ‘victims’ compensation’ by Port Waratah Coal Services (PWCS). The defendants will be in court on Monday January 31st and Thursday February 3rd in Newcastle.

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Forests NSW office occupation - "One day match - SEFR vs. Forests NSW"

Submitted by Flowerpower on Tue, 25/01/2011 - 9:45am

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Protesters call for the coal industry to foot the bill for flood clean-up

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 24/01/2011 - 6:27pm

A group of concerned citizens protested outside the BHP office in Melbourne today, and presented the coal industry with a giant invoice for part of the cost of the unprecedented floods in Victoria and Queensland.

Spokesperson for the group Pablo Brait said, ”we’re presenting this invoice to the entire coal industry on behalf of the Australian taxpayer, charging them for part of the flood clean-up and the increased insurance costs all Australians will have to pay due to the impacts of global warming.”

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Albedo feedback: Climate models underestimate loss of reflectivity in the Arctic

Submitted by takver on Sat, 22/01/2011 - 11:20pm

Loss of reflectivity in the Arctic is double the estimate used in current state-of-the-art climate models according to new analysis of the Northern Hemisphere's "albedo feedback" over a 30-year period. The research comes hard on the heels that Greenland had a record melt during 2010.

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