January 2010
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The Danes took our Princess so give us our...
Rally to free the climate prisoners
Today I participated in a post-Copenhagen rally to support an Australian, Natasha Verco, who has been detained in Denmark since 13 December on bogus charges. A group of twenty people from all around Sydney met outside the Danish Embassy in Sydney with a letter from Friends of the Earth Australia to give the Danish Ambassador.
Here is the ABC report and here is...
December 2009
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Post-enhagen
Copenhagen is over and this blog has only a few more stories in it at a stretch. This first one is my reflections on how I participated in the Copenhagen experience.
Personal financial reflections. The reason I could travel half way around the world for a climate conference was because I was supported financially. Money is a major limiting factor for young people participating in the United...
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Copenhagen Accord
Copenhagen Accord
Late last night, there was a change in the UN negotiations. There was a proposal called the Copenhagen Accord. It is a draft text of an agreement reached between China, US, India and South Africa. Here are perspectives from the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian UK and BBC News. Of note: 1. It commits Annex 1 or Developed countries to 80% reductions on 1990 levels by 2050 and 50%...
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Climate Vigil: reflections on survival
Dear Reader,
Today I write from a room with hundreds of climate activists working in a big hall, the NGO convergence space that has been setup in the last twelve hours. If there is one thing i have learned from COP15, it is that inspired and creative people can make something from nothing in next to no time. In fact, responding properly to global negotiations on something as complex as climate...
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Copenhagen: Snow on the Black Diamond
Dearest reader,
As I write to you, I sit in the Black Diamond library in Copenhagen which is being gently dusted with snowflakes. This image is in complete contradiction to the turbulance outside. The negotiations, the protests and the feelings of anger, confusion and doubt. The Australian Youth Delegation is getting through this with magnificant poise. Intense media work, freezing weather and...
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The Psychology of Climate Change Denial →
Finally, psychology is getting into the act. We need a lucid explanation of why people are so bad at understanding climate issues that effect their lives in clear and direct ways.
N.
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What is the world saying about Australia at COP15?
Dear Reader,
As the sun comes up on day five in cloudy, cold Copenhagen i’d like to turn your mind to Australia. Yes, we have the wonderful beaches and forests. Gorgeous creatures that live wild and free. Open plains and valleys and modern, cultured cities. This is how international people see us, right? Maybe not.
When it comes to climate change, the world is saying some crappy things...
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Who are the lobbies behind COP15? →
Global Climate Change Lobby are reporting COP15 looking directing at the lobbies influencing the negotiations and governments. Their short videos are very clear and direct. So far they have intrerviewed Agriculture (responsible for a third of co2 emissions), electricity and gas, alternative energy and climate. I’d love to see the climate denier lobby interviewed.
Which reminds me of a funny...
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Blog from other Australians who have travelled to... →
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WatchAYCC on 7pm Project on Channel 10. I can’t watch it because I am not in Australia. Congrats to Anna though, from what I have heard it was funny.
N.
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Bradfield Tomorrow Test Results are in!! →
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My stories in North Shore Times →
November 2009
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Bradfield By-Election Candidates
Dear Reader,
Bradfield by-election is just around the corner on the fifth of December. Do you know who you are voting for? The ABC website has a list of the candidates and a short description here. I thought I’d summarise things quicker for the conscious climate conscience reader.
North Shore drivers head to work through the severe dust storm earlier this year. The dust was blown from...
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Canberra Climate Protest: 130 arrested
The hundred and thirty people were arrested as a peaceful non-violent action saying Rudd the world is watching - make Copenhagen count. There is a one minute video on the fairfax website (here). ABC News have the story here.
As you would be aware, the Emissions Trading Legislation (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) is up in the Senate at the moment with today (being Tuesday 24th) as the day...
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Super-model Helena Christensen Photographs Peru →
This is a story of a woman travelling back to where her mother came from. Helena gives a description of the story over a slideshow of photographs she took through the trip.
The message is clear - people who have not caused climate change are being the worst effected. COP15 in Copenhagen needs to respond to this injustice by comitting money from Australia and other developed nations to halt...
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WatchRecent rains in the Autumn (or fall) have come at a heavy cost. I found the video of Georgia USA “Climate Change Hits Home” on this website.
Cheers,
N.
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Run for a Safe Climate
Dear reader,
Run for a Safe Climate arrived in Sydney last night. They are an amazingly inspiring group of people who have travelled from Cooktown with a powerful message. Their message is the message of Safe Climate Australia - climate change is real; we need to act; here are solutions so lets get moving on a national scale!
I was inspired most by the people. Policemen and firefighters who...
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K.Rudd will be at COP15 →
Finally, less than one month out, he has committed to going to the most important global climate talks. This is not leadership, but still it is a relief that he has decided to come.
N.
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New North Shore Times Article →
Interviewed by Andrew Priestly. They used a different photo in the print version of the story.
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Bradfield Tomorrow Test: Interview with Paul...
Who is Paul Fletcher?
Paul Fletcher is the Liberal Candidate for the Bradfield Federal By-Election that will fall on the 5 Dec, 2009 - two days before the start of COP15, making it the last national election anywhere in the world before Copenhagen.
Paul Fletcher formally worked as a senior executive with Optus and has been a Liberal party member since he was a law student at USYD in the...
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JJJ Interviews Climate Justice Fast Day: Day 6 →
Paul is one of eight people around the world are fasting on just water. Many people are doing it in solidarity.This interview was recorded on day 4.
Personally, I have fasted for one hundred hours. I did it with a friend, Huw, when we were in year 11. After four days I was dizzy, couldn’t sleep and if i did I dreamed of food. The hunger came in waves that got strong for twenty minutes and...
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Climate Justice Fast: Day 2 →
Dearest Reader
You might have heard of Climate Justice Fast. They are a group of eighty people from fourteen nations who are fasting in the month leading up to COP15 as a non-violent direct action reflecting the importance of acting now on climate change.
This link is the blog from Paul Connor. Paul began fasting in Canberra on November 6, where he will continue fasting on the protest lawn...
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Australian Register of Lobbyists for Big Polluters... →
The inner workings of the government are a mystery to most people. They certainly are to me. K.Rudd is up there on TV saying that Australia must act now on climate change, and proceeds to do nothing. Is he lying or is there some mysterious system that subverts people with good intentions to do little or nothing?
For me, Lobbyists are an important and unspoken part of this process. A lobbyist is a...
October 2009
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COP15 on Triple J's Hack TV →
See Jess from Climate Camp and the AYCC International Team on hack TV.
