Climate & Energy Justice
Book Review: Marx and the Earth: An anti-critique
Marx and the Earth is a righteously good read and indispensable for any politically and socio-economically literate environmentalist or Socialist.
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National doorknock to stop Adani
Adani says they’ve locked in funding for their dirty coal mine. So, now’s the time we need to push our politicians like never before to #StopAdani.
The majority of Australians don’t support the Adani Carmichael coal mine, which is a proposed thermal coal mine in the north of the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland, yet the major parties do. Our politicians could #StopAdani tomorrow, but they won’t unless our movement is everywhere they look.
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Rise for Climate
From September 8, there will be thousands of rallies in cities and towns around the world to demand our local leaders commit to building a fossil free world that puts people and justice before profit.
No more stalling, no more delays: it’s time for a fast and fair transition to 100% renewable energy for all.
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Clean Coal LOL ... but carbon capture and storage off Ninety Mile Beach is no laughing matter
By Catherine Hearse and the Quit Coal Collective at Friends of the Earth Melbourne
Golden Beach is an idyllic section of Victoria's Ninety Mile Beach. It boasts a pristine coastline, plentiful fish, multitudes of birds and the skeletal remains of an 1897 shipwreck. But there is a cloud hanging over this lovely place.
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Postcapitalising post carbon for the win
By Karun Cowper
For many environmentalists, the "New Economy" is (mis)understood to be simply an economy that has transitioned away from fossil fuels to a renewable energy powered economy. The reality is that there's not necessarily all that much postcapitalist about a mainstream green post-carbon economic vision.
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Linc Energy Underground Coal Gasification Plant fined $4.5million, but Leigh Creek still under threat
After an earlier conviction for causing serious environmental harm at their underground coal gasification plant in Queensland, Linc Energy have been fined $4.5 million.
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My story of Students of Sustainability
By Cam Villani and Stephan Encisco
In July 2015, I attended a week-long conference called Students of Sustainability (SoS), a five-day conference that brings together people from all over Australia.
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Tickets for Students of Sustainability AVAILABLE NOW
Tickets to the 27th annual Students of Sustainability conference are now available! See you in Narrm (Melbourne) on Wurundjeri country this July!
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FoE Australia News for early 2018
Friends of the Earth Australia news from early 2018.
Published in Chain Reaction #132, April 2018. National magazine of Friends of the Earth Australia. www.foe.org.au/chain_reaction_132
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Victorian community secures grant to prepare for climate impacts
The Victoria Central Goldfields town of Tarnagulla has been announced as the first recipient of the Victorian government's Climate Change Innovation Partnerships grant scheme.