Apr 16, 2021 | Gas, Lighter Footprints Events, Taking Action
An event wrap-up:- for further info, please contact Mick Nolan or David Strang (‘Energy Transition Group’) At our March 25 meeting, we were pleased and privileged to have Tony Wood from the Grattan Institute and Bruce Mountain from the Victorian...
Mar 27, 2021 | Climate Policy, Forests, Gas, Lighter Footprints Events, Meeting with MPs
“Reflections and Hopes: Getting to know our local State MPs” Thank you to everyone who came along to our State MP forum event last November. And special thanks to John Kennedy MP (Hawthorn), Paul Hamer MP (Box Hill), and Will Fowles MP (Burwood) for making themselves...
Mar 12, 2021 | Gas
Open Letter to The Hon Richard Wynne, MLA for Richmond, Victoria. Minister for Planning. AGL’s proposed gas import terminal is completely at odds with jobs, the Victorian Government’s emissions reduction targets, and a clean energy future. Dear Mr Wynne, There has...
Mar 4, 2021 | Clean Energy, Climate Policy, Lighter Footprints Events, Speaker Slides & Presentations
2021: Riding the Clean Energy Wave An insider’s view with Simon Holmes à Court Wed, 24th February 2021 We were privileged to get a general update and some special insights into the Energy and Climate sector in Australia on 24th February from long-time friend of...
Oct 4, 2020 | Boroondara Council, Lighter Footprints Forum, Taking Action
Thank you to everyone who came along to our massive forum event! Over 300 Lighter Footprints supporters packed in to hear from candidates in the upcoming Boroondara council elections, as well as a rousing welcome from ABC star Craig Reucassel. You can watch a...
Aug 31, 2020 | Boroondara Council, Clean Energy, Climate Policy, Solutions, Taking Action
Overview Last Wednesday we welcomed a terrific panel to discuss climate solutions at a local government level. What are some best-practice programs and actions being implemented right now in Australia, and what are some of Boroondara City’s neighbors doing? This is...
Aug 7, 2020 | Indigenous, Lighter Footprints Events
For those who missed out, you can relive the night via a recording on our YouTube channel. We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our pre-corona existence was not normal, other than we normalised greed, inequity, exhaustion, depletion, extraction,...
Jul 29, 2020 | Boroondara Council, Climate Emergency, Climate Policy, Lighter Footprints Events
Boroondara Climate Action Plan Consultation – Complete the Survey Now! The City of Boroondara is developing a new Climate Action Plan that will guide Council’s climate action over the next ten years. The first phase of community consultation on...
Jul 17, 2020 | Environmental racism, Indigenous, Lighter Footprints Events, Taking Action
Join us on Wednesday 29 July for what’s sure to be an engaging evening with Lidia Thorpe. Lidia is a long-time Indigenous rights champion, former MP for the Victorian state seat of Northcote and is soon headed to Canberra as Victoria’s newest Senator, representing the...
Jul 1, 2020 | Communicating climate change, Lighter Footprints Events, Meeting with MPs, Speaker Slides & Presentations, Taking Action
Last Wednesday eighty Lighter Footprints Zoom-ers were joined by three terrific speakers to discuss effective climate communications. Climate Conversations First we heard from Mike McEvoy, Program Manager at Climate for Change (C4C). C4C’s Climate Conversations...
Jun 1, 2020 | Clean Energy, Climate Policy, Speaker Slides & Presentations
ClimateWorks Last Wednesday we were joined by ClimateWorks CEO Anna Skarbek. Her organisation has spent two years carefully plotting out updated paths to economy-wide decarbonisation in Australia, and Lighter Footprints members were lucky enough to get a breakdown of...
May 22, 2020 | Clean Energy, Climate Policy, Solutions
BUILDING THE RECOVERY ( ‘A new and better normal’) An hour with Simon Holmes à Court 13th May 2020 Simon’s special insights into Energy and Climate returned to Lighter Footprints with a review of the opportunities for a renewables based recovery from the pandemic. He...
Apr 25, 2020 | Solutions, Taking Action
We welcomed Rachel and Pablo from Market Forces on Wednesday 29 April to learn more about how working the financial sector can reduce emissions and shift global capital for a safer climate. You can upload the presentation slides here, and listen to the Facebook Live...
Mar 27, 2020 | Speaker Slides & Presentations, Taking Action
This Wednesday thirty brave members logged on to Lighter’s Footprint’s first all-Zoom meeting. Thanks so much to the participants, who are now familiarised with Zoom’s basic functions. We are looking forward to our next Zoom with Environment...
Mar 3, 2020 | Clean Energy, Solutions, Taking Action
Last Wednesday 26 Feb Simon Holmes á Court offered us a terrific preview of the year ahead in climate solutions and collective action with over 100 captive audience members. So what did we learn? Where’s the climate heading? The latest projections indicate we’re...
Oct 29, 2017 | Taking Action
Thursday 2 November at 7:00 PM 1 Faversham Rd, Canterbury , VIC 3126 ACF Boroondara and Lighter Footprints would like to invite you to a screening of Guarding The Galilee: a 30 minute documentary film that takes us inside the fight to stop Adani’s Carmichael...
