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Environment Victoria – The 5 Million Victorians For Green Action Campaign
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RUN FOR A SAFE CLIMATE
A team of 25 trained runners from the various emergency services will run in a relay over 6000 kilometres to link Australia’s unique, world-renowned natural icons. All this to highlight the need for action in tackling climate change.
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JUICE MEDIA RAP NEWS
Copenhagen is debated by Al Gore and Lord Monckton through the medium of rap. Created by Juice Media, good food for thought.
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SWITCH OFF HAZELWOOD
Community action to highlight the need for Renewable Energy in Victoria. Switch Off Hazelwood – Switch Off Coal sees a large number of people peacefully trespassing onto Hazelwood Coal Fired Power Station land as a physical statement that change is needed. The organisers collaborate with the Victorian police and provide toilets, doctors and a fast legal team. www.switchoffhazelwood.org
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CLIMATE CAMP AUSTRALIA
Australia’s first Camp for Climate Action was an incredible moment, a source of inspiration and learning experience for future action on climate change. Over 1600 people participated in the camp across five inspirational days. Students, mothers, fathers, coal miners, unionists and members of the local community were there. Together we talked up a storm, ate amazing meals, created a community based on direct democracy, laughed and then pulled off the largest non-violent direct action in the Australian climate movements history. Put simply, we were building a vibrant, strategic, climate justice movement. And still are! www.climatecamp.org.au
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DON’T BE STUPID
Featured in recent film ‘The Age of Stupid’, kids talk about the International Copenhagen Climate Negotiations.
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350 THE DAY OF INTERNATIONAL ACTION
On 24 October, people in 181 countries came together to speak with one voice on the most urgent issue of our times: the climate crisis. Through www.350.org, people in every corner of the planet coordinated the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet’s history. At over 5200 events around the world, people gathered to call for strong action and bold leadership on the climate crisis. By the days end, it was clear: people of all kinds in just about every place on earth are calling for a fair, ambitious, and binding global climate treaty.
BILL MCKIBBEN OF 350
Bill KcKibben at The University of Sydney. The creator of the 350 campaign talks about the power of community movements and the change in society due to climate change. From the Australian media to bush fires to connected Africans to creative action. First half of the clip is his speech and the second is questions from the audience.
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SOLAR SPAIN
Torresol Power is currently building a massive concentrating Solar Power Station in Seville, Spain.
SOLAR SPAIN
Another large scale solar power project currently active in Spain through Andasol Solar.
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SOLAR U.S.
A promise from Solar Reserve of reliable 24 hour dispatchable Solar Power after their 4 years of success on sites in the US.
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Solar Reserve explain the advancements in storing energy through molten salt. Entertaining advertising from Solar Reserve.
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Large scale solar power projects in the Nevada Desert since 2007. ACCIONA promotion.
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Green jobs through new Solar production line in US. Similar to here in Australia, Solar Systems in Abbotsford has a production line for their state of the art Solar technology. However due to the Australian Government refusing to move away from coal power, Solar Systems is being forced to shut down.
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ECO TALKS TO THE U.N. (1992)
In 1992, Severn Suzuki (12 years old) brought world leaders to tears with a speech at the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in which she chastised them for failing to protect her and her friends from the looming environmental catastrophe.
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POLAR TALKS
A cartoon on climate change
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Tuvalu – Islands on the Frontline
Photography by Robin Hammond, this multimedia piece looks at the island nation of Tuvalu, as the Tuvaluan people become some of the first environmental refugees, a direct result of man-made climate change.
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