Articles tagged ‘Climate Change’.

Showcasing local sustainable houses
The EconoSpace is the brainchild of Irish architect and central Victoria resident, Peter Cowman. The passive solar ‘EconoSpace’ is an abbreviation of the words ‘economical space’. It is a small eco-building which can be constructed without a building permit in the average backyard.
Mount Alexander Sustainability Group (MASG) and Council are proud to be jointly hosting a sustainable house tour in Castlemaine on Saturday 25 Februar...
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Arctic scientist warns of dangerous climate change
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The future of human kind faces dire consequences, due to arguably the first signs of dangerous climate change in the Arctic, says a leading internatio...
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Weekend read: The biodiversity crisis – Worse than climate change
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“The biodiversity crisis – i.e. the rapid loss of species and the rapid degradation of ecosystems – is probably a greater threat than global...
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Government confirms AFP spying on coal seam gas protesters
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Minister Joe Ludwig, representing the Attorney General in the Senate, confirmed in Question Time on Tuesday that the Australian Federal Police monitor...
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Government misleads World Heritage Committee on Tasmanian logging
The Australian Government has lodged a report with the World Heritage Committee that misrepresents the extent of logging in forest surrounding the Tas...
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Two!
At the last CI staff meeting
It’s CI’s birthday! Two. How would you live without us? Let us know! Congratulate us. Conditions of congratulating us: 1. No hate bloggers...
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Deadly outcome for unlucky mushroom consumers
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By Alison Pouliot The start to 2012 was marred by the tragic news of the deaths of two people following consumption of Death Cup mushrooms (Amanita ph...
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Community wind hits the streets
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Last week residents met with the Mount Alexander Community Wind Working Group to guide the six-month strategy for Mount Alexander Community Wind, incl...
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The PM believes in fairytales (so how come she won’t disappear in a cloud of fairy dust?)
Let's make Pakistan next!
By Anonymous Since when is a meeting in a bar a “modern-day fairytale”? Did Fred and Mary have a drunken shag in the dairy and then he won...
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The critical decade
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The red zone is run away climate change, what we get  if we can’t keep the global temperature rise below the ‘safe-ish’ two degrees rise. T...
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Why solar parity scares big utilities
… This might explain why state governments, in Victoria and NSW in particular, are happy to delay the rollout of renewable energy at a large sc...
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Conference calls for wind farm policy change
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Victoria’s wind farm policy threatens regional development and should be changed, according to delegates at a national Community Power Conference in...
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Central Victoria Solar City seeks partners
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As a partner of Sustainable Regional Australia (SRA), the lead proponent of the Central Victoria Solar City project, your community could improve its ...
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Leaders discuss climate change adaptation for Bendigo
Government, industry leaders and academics will meet in Bendigo this week to workshop designs for local adaptation to climate change. Victoria Univers...
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Our forests online
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Words and images by Alison Pouliot The International Year of Forests may be drawing to a close, but we need to consider every year as a year to fight ...
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Landmark climate law decades in the making
Australia’s new clean energy law, passed through the Senate today, is the result of more than a decade of effort by countless Australians who have w...
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Take 3 and help save marine life
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NSW Central Coast environmentalist Tim Silverwood has returned from a research expedition to the North Pacific Gyre – aka Great Pacific Garbage ...
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Fruit fly workshops on the way
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Climate change means pests such as fruit fly are now threatening local crops, and have the potential to devastate commercial and backyard growers. The...
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An occupier’s perspective
Who would have thought this, on the streets of Melbourne?
By Isaac Sutcliffe I’m not sure who first came up with the idea of occupying Wall Street. I remember the first I heard of it was from the “hac...
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The Tankulator: water saving made simple
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With the Bureau of Meteorology predicting a likely wetter season over most of Australia, now is the ideal time for householders to save water and mone...
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Community delegates say yes to a carbon price
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Bridgid Soames, a sustainability educator from Woodend, is one of 30 volunteers from around Australia who will be travelling to Canberra next week ahe...
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Bendigo to host national energy conference
John Martin, Director, Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities
Bendigo will host a major national conference in November showcasing how communities are tackling energy price rises. The Community Power Conference o...
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Climate sceptic for Castlemaine
By Bronwen Machin William Kininmonth will speak on the science underlying the carbon tax tomorrow (21 October 2011). His talk has been organised by a ...
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Why bother going green?
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Christian Monahan, from The Produce Garden, is writing regularly for CI, and we are delighted to have him on board. We’ll be publishing his work on...
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Occupy Wall Street!
Wall Street Protest Spreads To Other Cities
OccupyWallSt.org is the unofficial de facto online resource for the protests happening on Wall Street. They are an affinity group committed to doin...
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Abbott’s environmental policy: he don’t like rabbits
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By Dean Bridgfoot One thing is certain after Tony Abbott’s visit to Bendigo on 6 October – under an Abbot-led government our region would ...
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Party to celebrate climate action
The Bendigo Sustainability Group is inviting everyone in the community to a party for climate action this Thursday October 6 at the Capital Theatre, ...
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Party for Climate Action – say yes to a price on pollution
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Tony Abbott, Leader of the opposition will be holding a community forum inside the Capital Theatre in Bendigo to discuss local and national issues fr...
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MASG probes Baillieu on wind
Mount Alexander Sustainability Group (MASG) members and committee have invited the Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu to attend a public presentation abou...
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Saving community wind farms
A wind farm generates electricity behind a hay bail field in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains near the town of Pincher Creek, Alberta September 27, 2010. The non-polluting source of renewable energy is fed into the provincial electrical grid that powers industries and residences.
The Alternative Technology Association supports the push by Victorian community groups fighting to reverse government restrictions on wind turbines. A...
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Scientists track global warming’s ‘missing heat’
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Scientists have used computer models to answer the mystery of global warming’s missing heat – and believe the answer lies deep beneath the...
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Barry Jones to talk climate change in Castlemaine
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Writer, lawyer, social activist, quizz champion and former politician Barry Jones will deliver the Agitation Hill lecture in Castlemaine on Grand Fina...
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Blade Electric Vehicles partnership to create 350 new high-tech jobs
Ross Blade plugs in
A new joint venture between Blade Electric Vehicles, DLG Battery Limited and IRES Asia Pacific Pty Ltd is bringing 100 new hi-tech jobs to Castlemain...
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We can’t walk there, but they’re sending in the dozers
Community protest at Cement Creek on 14 August
By Michelle Slater While it’s illegal to bushwalk in water catchment areas, the Baillieu Government has sanctioned clear-felling. Victorian taxp...
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Why attack renewable energy when the community wants it?
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Statement from Mount Alexander Sustainability Group This week the State Government unilaterally banned wind farms from half of this shire, banned them...
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Who’s whingeing about the carbon price? Not Big Coal?
The anti-carbon price ad campaign launched today by big polluters has no credibility according to the nation’s leading environment group, the Austra...
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