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EV organise a range of different events with the aim of cleaning up the state, including Walk Against Warming. The EV site’s ACT Section offers ideas for Actions, a Learn More section and help with ho to go about it all. click here to view
have a morning radio program on 3CR that aside from being very up to date on the topic of renewable energy boast a large number of special guests from around the world. To listen to one of the many podcasts click here
beyondzeroemissions.org is full of news and information on renewable energy projects around the world.
All around Australia there are Local Climate Action Groups. A collection of individuals concerns about our impact on climate change who meet in their local area to discuss what they can do to make a difference. Activities can vary depending on the views of each group, all ages welcome, each a small local community of caring folk.
An example of one of the many groups in Victoria is Climate Action Moreland. They have facilitated Community Festivals, run an ‘Action & Visual Art Competition‘ in schools across Victoria for the 350 campaign, participated in community protests such as ‘Switch Off Hazelwood‘ and Climate Camp ‘09 to name a few.
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A brief look at the reality of the Chocolate industry, from farmers to multinationals. click here to view article
Bitter Life of Chocolate’s Child SlavesThe Age takes a look at the West African Cocoa Industry and the trafficked children that work within it. click here to view article
ABC article explains how Australians are guilty of ’sex slavery’ and eating child labour chocolate. click here to view article
Bitter Chocolate traces the history of the cocoa bean from its origins in the Mayan and Aztec cultures through to the current-day use of children as slave labour on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast in West Africa. click here to listen
International Labour OrganiasationFacts on child labour in agriculture click here
ILO RADIO – Listen to an interview that focuses on ILO and the cocoa industry click here
What is the real cost of Chocolate click her to view article
International Labour Rights ForumStop Child & Forced Labour – Cocoa Campaign click here to view
Bittersweet Chocolate, an in depth look at the world of chocolate and the developments over the years. click here to view article
The 2002 Report on child labour in the Cocoa Industry. Supported by US Agency of International Development (USAID). To view summery click here For the August Synthesis click here
International Campaign against child trafficking. Website www.stopthetraffik.org
Chocolate factsheet click here
The film is based on the real events of Tony, who discovers the truth about the chocolate industry and decides to prosecute himself for being involved as a consumer in the crimes of slavery. Tony goes on to start his own chocolate company, Dutch Tony’s Chocolonely.
Tim Costello of World Vision goes to West Africa to validate claims that Australian chocolate is coming from child labour. Covered on Sunday program Channel 9 News.
The chocolate industry has repeatedly failed to adequately tackle labour exploitation in West African cocoa fields… bubbles of nothing. Big Chocolate, just say YES and stop using child labour in cocoa production.
There are over a quarter of a million children who work in the cocoa plantations of West Africa. It’s hazardous work, which exposes children to highly toxic pesticides. This episode of the BBC World TV series “Survivors Guide” goes to Cameroon, where the International Labour Organization has been working to eliminate child labour from cocoa production and help children return to school. Produced by Rockhopper TV in cooperation with the ILO.
Divine Chocolate UK show how fair trade chocolate can remove poverty from cocoa farmers.
Environment Victoria – The 5 Million Victorians For Green Action Campaign
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.
Copenhagen is debated by Al Gore and Lord Monckton through the medium of rap. Created by Juice Media, good food for thought.
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
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
Featured in recent film ‘The Age of Stupid’, kids talk about the International Copenhagen Climate Negotiations.
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 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.
Torresol Power is currently building a massive concentrating Solar Power Station in Seville, Spain.
Another large scale solar power project currently active in Spain through Andasol Solar.
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A promise from Solar Reserve of reliable 24 hour dispatchable Solar Power after their 4 years of success on sites in the US.
Solar Reserve explain the advancements in storing energy through molten salt. Entertaining advertising from Solar Reserve.
Large scale solar power projects in the Nevada Desert since 2007. ACCIONA promotion.
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.
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.
A cartoon on climate change
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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