John Seed's "Climate Change Despair and Empowerment Roadshow" was a great success at both the Richmond and Ballarat events with around 300 and 150 people attending respectively.

At the Richmond presentations, hosted by the City of Yarra with enthusiastic support from the Yarra Mayor Jenny Farrar, participants were encouraged to join or form Climate Study/Action groups as a vehicle for communities to build resilient networks in which we can support each other in the changes we need to collectively make.

The Ballarat event was hosted by Ballarat Renewable Energy and Zero Emissions (Breaze) and the event served to catalyse interest in the local group, with an enthusiastic discussion and desperate rush by large numbers of the audience to find people to give their membership money to.

John is next speaking at a number of events in North East NSW where he and Ruth are training people to be able to give their presentation.

Beyond Zero Emissions has supported John by helping organise his Victorian events and will help facilitate future event in Melbourne.

People interested in having the "Climate Change Despair and Empowerment Roadshow" in their area can contact myself or John Seed who is based at the Rainforest Information Centre in Lismore NSW.

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