Lighter Footprints has joined forces with other groups in the Kooyong Climate Change Alliance to work towards the City of Boroondara declaring a Climate Emergency. We have been petitioning the good people of Boroondara since October in shopping centres on Saturday...
Category: Climate Emergency
Lighter Footprints calls for higher ambition on climate targets
Lighter Footprints’ advert calling for high ambition on climate targets made it into the Progress Leader this month! The quote “no free ride on climate” is from UN Secretary General Kofi Anan.
Pope Francis’ Encyclical re-frames climate debate – David Spratt
Wednesday 24 June 7pm for 7.30pm Guide Hall – Faversham Rd Canterbury David Spratt (co-author Climate Code Red) “After the Encyclical: spreading the word on climate change” Join us for an engaging evening of discussion. Join us for some food and...
Places you love – contribute to ACF’s national database
Wednesday 27 May 7pm for 7.30pm Guide Hall – Faversham Rd Canterbury Places you love: What threats do you see to these places and how can you help to protect them Come and join us to discuss your own views on the places you love and how best to protect...
Health benefits of the carbon price: Op-ed by Fiona Armstrong
The untold story: health benefits of the carbon price By Fiona Armstrong (An edited version ran in the Canberra Times and Sydney Morning Herald on Tuesday 26th Jun 12, as “Carbon Price’s Health Bonanza”) The birth of Australia’s carbon price legislation is...
On becoming a loon – Carolyn Ingvarson
A couple of weeks ago some of us helped to spell out a human sign in the Alexandra Gardens. Thousands of people dressed in red made up two words – CLIMATE EMERGENCY. Where is this emergency you might ask? Surely an over-statement, from a bunch of self-interested...