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“The YOUthdecide campaign was met with anticipation and excitement by the majority of young people – but is a campaign that has fundamentally betrayed the hopes and dreams of a generation.” - Young Liberal, in a Facebook note.
“The world I choose is one where people like you are thrown into an active volcano” – email [...]
Just found out about this day that’s happening this weekend – so in case any of you are building or renovating or living in a house – you can get more information on how to do it sustainably. It’s this Sunday and houses across Australia are opened to show you how to live more sustainably. [...]
Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Dr Rajendra Rachauri, said today in an interview with Agence France Presse reporter Marlowe Hood:
“As chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) I cannot take a position because we do not make recommendations,” said Rajendra Pachauri when asked if he supported calls to keep atmospheric [...]
“It’s our future, and I want to make it better,” was the reason one of our high school volunteers gave me when I asked her why she started to volunteer with the Australian Youth Climate Coalition.
Our offices (in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane) have been full of new volunteers in the past few weeks, coming in [...]
Hello Rooted readers! Sorry for the long time between posts. I hope you all had a great weekend – mine was spent preparing for Power Shift (see below), including filming a promo video for the event with Ian Thorpe at the AYCC offices.
Normally I don’t spend my Monday’s thinking about what I’ll be doing the [...]
I’m sure you’ve all heard about the Government’s changes to the emissions trading scheme announced yesterday. At first glance, extending the upper limit to 25% is positive – and it’s due to the hard work of the climate movement and millions of Australians who have exterted pressure on Rudd. But the other things he announced [...]
I’d like your advice.
I was giving a talk a few weeks ago to Principals of the environmental education centres from across NSW about the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and particularly our high school program, Switched On Schools.
A woman came up afterwards and recognised me from when I was in high school in Newcastle and had [...]
Do you bemoan the fact that very few of our so-called “leaders” in the world of business and politics actually demonstrate true leadership?
Ask yourself this: how many of these figures make really tough decisions that are in our long-term best interests? How many have the courage to stick with those decisions? How many have the [...]
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