May 16, 2017 | Solutions
Wednesday May 31 7 pm for 7.30 pm Guide Hall – Faversham Rd Canterbury Adrian Morphett from Earth Systems. “What is Biochar? Is it part of the solution to climate change?” Given the slow pace of emissions reductions, the drawing down of carbon and...
Apr 27, 2017 | Clean Energy, Solutions
Wednesday April 26 7 pm for 7.30 pm Guide Hall – Faversham Rd Canterbury Alan Pears (RMIT University) “Unravelling today’s energy policy debate and finding paths to a clean, affordable and reliable energy future.” Click here for Alan...
Feb 23, 2017 | Clean Energy, Solutions
Wednesday February 22 7 pm for 7.30 pm Guide Hall – Faversham Rd Canterbury Adam Majcher (ClimateWorks) Progressing Australia’s net – zero emissions agenda What are the main opportunities for 2017 and what does the transition to 2050 require? Adam...
Nov 8, 2016 | Solutions, Speaker Slides & Presentations
At its final meeting for the year, Lighter Footprints, the local climate change action group, attracted a bumper crowd to hear Lily D’Ambrosio, Minister for Energy, Environment, Climate Change and Suburban Development, explain the State Government’s commitment and...
Jun 17, 2016 | Solutions, Speaker Slides & Presentations
What a great pre-election forum. You can relive the night via Facebook Live (in 2 parts – here & here)! Over 550 with standing room only. Politicians discussed serious issue related to Climate Change, and they agreed to continue the discussion with a view...
May 26, 2016 | Boroondara Council, Solutions
Wed May 25 7 for 7.30 PM Guide Hall – Faversham Rd Canterbury “Where is Boroonadara headed with its Low Carbon Strategy to 2020?” Come and hear the early plans and provide input into this strategy. Speaker: Mathew Dixon Senior Sustainability...
Feb 17, 2016 | Climate Damage, Solutions
Wednesday February 24 7 for 7.30 Guide Hall – Faversham Rd Canterbury PARIS – December 2015. Two personal takes. with John Wiseman from MSSI and Fiona Armstrong from CAHA Hear what being in Paris in Dec 2015 meant to them, what they learnt and where they...
Nov 5, 2015 | Solutions
The Last Climate Tango in Paris For those who were not able to make it to the forum on Tuesday 27 October at Hawthorn Town Hall ” The Last Climate Tango in Paris” , and have not heard how it went, and want to know – it went well! We filled the hall...
Sep 25, 2015 | Solutions
Wednesday September 20 7 for 7.30 Guide Hall – Faversham Rd Canterbury Scott McKenry Regional Coordinator Eastern Alliance for Greenhouse Action (EAGA) Local to Regional Climate Action : How Eastern Region Councils are working together on climate change Before...
Jul 17, 2015 | Solutions, Taking Action
Wednesday 29 July 7pm for 7.30pm Guide Hall – Faversham Rd Canterbury “The fossil fuel divestment movement and steps you can take to clean up your finances”. Govind Maksay is a campaigner at Market Forces – an affiliate project of Friends of...
Nov 18, 2014 | Lighter Footprints Forum, Solutions, Taking Action
Yes, we did it, And now it is done! And life can go on for those us who’ve been involved with getting this to happen. So thanks to all of you who did your part. Many of you came, and many told others about it, others delivered flyers – thousands and...
Jul 6, 2014 | Climate Damage, Climate Policy, Solutions, Taking Action
On June 19, the ACF organised a delegation of community representatives from each of the states to visit Canberra with the petition to hold onto the climate laws which had been signed by 235,000 people. We met with several politicians and left information related to...
Jun 1, 2014 | Climate Policy, Solutions
Two useful pieces of information: 1. A summary of the US stance on climate change as announced by Obama.This has been put together by the Climate Institute. 2. Laura Kelly from CANA adds some commentary about the Bonn meeting in June. Both of these issues need to be...
May 13, 2014 | Solutions
Wednesday 28th May 7 for 7.30 pm Guide Hall – Faversham Rd Canterbury Peter Dreher – Bringing Renewable Energy Online : Facts and Fiction. Peter is a corporate and projects partner at HWL Ebsworth with a specialisation in energy.
We are fortunate to have...
Apr 13, 2014 | Climate Damage, Solutions
Members of the public are warmly invited to join us at our next monthly meeting to find out what more each of us can do to contribute to a clean healthy future and to better manage climate change risk. Distinguished electrical engineer and renewable energy enthusiast...
Sep 18, 2013 | Solutions, Taking Action
The Climate Reality Project – what is it and where do we fit? Sue King (Energy auditor) and Adam Majcher (Australian Conservation Foundation) have recently returned from the training course in Chicago run by Al Gore and the Climate Reality team. They will give...
May 31, 2013 | Solutions
Wednesday 26th June 7 pm for 7.30 Canterbury Guide Hall – Faversham Rd Michael Josephson (Ethical Investment Services) How to move your super to an ethical investment so that YOU can avoid patronising companies that deal in coal, oil, tobacco, alcohol, slave...
May 30, 2013 | Solutions
Lighter Footprints received its first mention in the news pages of The Australian Financial Review recently, following several emails from us to Bill Shorten strongly urging him to continue his support for a price on carbon after the election. The following excerpt...
Jul 11, 2012 | Clean Energy, Solutions, Taking Action
Wednesday 25 July 7pm for 7:30 Canterbury Guide Hall – Faversham Rd At the July Lighter Footprints monthly meeting we are delighted to have Hannah Aulby who will talk to us about the very exciting Australia wide campaign to Repower Port Augusta! Repower Port...
Oct 12, 2011 | Solutions, Taking Action
Over the coming few weeks, as the price on pollution is debated in Parliament, Victorian communities will come together to take part in the Earth Relay – a series of actions to symbolise support for action on climate change. Like the passage of the Olympic flame...
Jun 8, 2011 | Clean Energy, Solutions, Speaker Slides & Presentations
Lighter Footprints Forum August 2011 Can we live well without coal? Can renewable energy provide continuous, reliable power? Can we escape our dependence on carbon polluting fossil fuels? Is it nuclear or nothing? Watch the three speakers on these issues at the...
Apr 28, 2011 | Boroondara Council, Clean Energy, Lighter Footprints Forum, Solutions, Speaker Slides & Presentations
Lighter Footprints Forum Sustainable suburbia – what do we need to do? Time: Thursday 28 April 2011 Venue: Holy Trinity Church Hall, corner Union Road and Montrose Street, Surrey Hills Purpose The forum discussed how we can create sustainable suburbs and take...
Jun 1, 2010 | Clean Energy, Solutions
Excerpt from this Care2 blog post: “In a converted corn ethanol plant 25 minutes from Cedar Rapids, four-story tanks of renewable fuel are quietly bubbling away ready for conversion into fuel-grade ethanol. What makes this batch of fuel special is its main...
Mar 20, 2010 | Lighter Footprints Forum, Solutions, Speaker Slides & Presentations, Taking Action
Lighter Footprints Forum Rewrite the Future: Climate Communities 2010 18 February 2010, Hawthorn Town Hall, Burwood Road, Hawthorn. Has the political debate left you unsure about climate change? About your role in responding to it? Do we have the solutions needed?...
Nov 27, 2009 | Climate Emergency, Climate Policy, Solutions
Past climate anomalies explained Lead paragraphs from the BBC story: “Unusually warm and cold periods in Earth’s pre-industrial climate history are linked to how the oceans responded to temperature changes, say scientists. The researchers focused...
