Celebrate 19,000 homes with solar panels in Canberra!
Sunday April 7th. 12.00 -3pm
Expert speakers on Solar Energy in Canberra
BBQ, Music
The BBQ will be in the gardens opposite 15 Hackett Gardens, Turner.
Have you got solar panels or are you contemplating getting them?
This is a chance to ask questions about joining the solar future.
All are welcome to hear about the latest progress in solar for Canberrans from speakers including:
• Professor Andrew Blakers: Director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems at ANU
• Lawrence McIntosh: Co-ordinator of the Canberra Clean Energy who are about to launch a community solar farm that you can co-own.
• MC: Caroline LeCouteur
Please bring some food to share. BBQ equipment provided.
Vegetarian food is available for $5.
RSVP: Valerie 62486873.

From Climate Action Canberra.

You are invited to the Climate Action Canberra Annual General Meeting.
WHEN – 6pm to 7pm, Monday 18 March.
WHERE – Board Room, Conservation Council, 17 Childers St – the temporary building in the car park next to the Street Theatre.

Nominations are open for our new convenor, secretary, treasurer and four other executive positions.

Please send notice of any motions that you wish to put to rebeccahorridge[ .. at… ] hotmail dot com by 25 February.

Friday January 1st. 17:30 until 19:00.
This Friday, the government is releasing its response to UNESCO’s report on the Great Barrier Reef. The GBR is the world’s largest reef system, and it’s home to thousands of species of fish, dolphins, turtles, whales and corals, many of which are found nowhere else in the world. Yet UNESCO’s State of Conservation report warns that the Reef is in danger, due to the huge expansion of coal ports which is taking place along Queensland’s coast.

We need to make sure that Australians are aware of the great risk facing one of our national icons, and we need to let the government know that it’s not ok to do so much damage to one of the most unique places on earth. How can we do this, you ask?

This Friday at 5:30pm, come on down to Garema Place, dressed in your best beach holiday attire! We’ll ask passers-by to pose with us for a photo, to write a message to the Environment Minister Tony Burke, or simply to have a conversation about the reef. Similar events will be happening all day all over Australia, because this really is a national issue.

In brief:
Who: Anyone concerned about the future of the Great Barrier Reef
What: Raising public awareness for a Reef at risk!
When: 5:30 Friday 1st of February
Where: Poet’s Corner in Garema Place in the city (outside Impact Comics)

Bring: Your lovely selves, your friends and family, and your passion for a sustainable future! Please dress up in the stuff you’d wear for a day at the beach – board shorts, rash vests, thongs, snorkels, wetsuits, surfboards, flippers, towels – or an AYCC shirt if you have one!
Can’t wait to see you there!

Rebecca: Climate Action Canberra : Mob. 0406 375 401
In solidarity with the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and Greenpeace

First Committee/Action meeting Monday 4 February.

• General Meetings 3rd Monday of each month, starting February 18
• Venue: Conservation Council (new location in Kingsley St near the Food Co-op TBA)
• Time: 6-7 pm
• Committee/Action meetings to be held between the General Meetings as necessary.

All are welcome to  meetings.  Any queries contact the convenor: Rebecca Horridge: Mob:   0406 375 401 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            0406 375 401    

Help us convince the international paper giant, Nippon Paper to stop using native forest for woodchips. It is Australia’s biggest woodchipper. Other Japanese paper manufacturers have stopped, why can’t Nippon Paper? Follow this link.

http://www.causes.com/causes/635858-nippon-paper-must-stop-using-native-forest-woodchips/actions/1716322

You are warmly [ really no pun intended ] invited to join Climate Action Canberra and other environment and sustainability groups  for a celebration of the many sustainability goals we’ve all kicked in 2012!

Do join us.

Even if we have never met before this would be a good place to start ! 

When: 4-8pm Sunday the 16th of December

Where: Corroboree Park Paterson St, Ainslie

What: Live music from some of Canberra’s best local musicians including:

Ecopella, Josh Jones, Guy Lilleyman, Hashemoto and more!

kids games (including tug-o-war, apple bobbing, sack races and egg and spoon), hilarious awards, special guest speaker Simon Sheikh (former GetUp! national director), potluck dinner, baking contest

Bring: a dish to share (if bringing a dessert, you can enter it in the baking comp!), your own eating implements and drinks.

Join the event on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/550018771681930/

Here we are at the candle lit vigil during the internatioinal negotiations in Copenhagen in 2009

Okay, so maybe next week’s ACT Election hasn’t exactly been blowing minds so far, but we’re trying! Here’s something that may surprise you: although the Canberra Liberals are yet to announce any climate change policy this year, back in the late 90s it was a whole different story.

For this and more, check out our Vote for your Climate Scorecard, released today: http://is.gd/IOsM89

We asked the ACT election candidates about their climate policies and initives and crunched their resonses with this card. ClimatexChange also has some good lists about the parties climate initives at http://canberra.climatexchange.org.au/?s=election

The scorecard is on Facebook as an event you can share  at  https://www.facebook.com/events/181114925358863/

Sunday, 30 September 2012. 10:00 am

Just as 100 walkers arrive in Adelaide from Port Augusta, we will be walking through civic to MP Andrew Leigh’s office!

We will be showing that there is support around Australia for renewable energy. So come along to Walk for SOLARdarity and show our support for those amazing walkers in SA.

This is the perfect time to link together with the recent announcement of the solar farm in Royalla, just outside Canberra, and also the ACT Greens & Labor publications of moving Canberra to be 90% powered by renewables by 2020. It shows great support for to renewable energy sources in Canberra, especially in large scale solar farms.

So come along to support all Australian’s in building a big solar!

We will be meeting at Garema Place at 10am. Then we’ll be heading over to Mr Leigh’s office in Braddon to tell him we support big solar in Australia!