Climate action groups

Occupy Movement, climate activism and BZE's plans for 2012

Posted on 24 Jan 2012
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BZE's Nick Carson speaks with Melanie Sluyter from Occupy Wall Street. They discuss the relationship between the Occupy movement and climate change activism. Melanie also talks about the Occupyer's Earth Summit which will run in parallel with the upcoming Rio Earth Summit in June.

In the next part of the program, Vivien Langford speaks to BZE's Pablo Brait, Mark Ogge and Emma Carton about what's going on within Beyond Zero Emissions, and our organisation's plans for 2012.

 

Melanie Sluyter Interview

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BZE in 2012

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The Occupy movement and Senator Richard Di Natale on climate change and health

Posted on 21 Jan 2012
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BZE explores the Occupy movement. Vivien Langford speaks with musician and activist David Rovics and local activists Nick Carson and Samuel Alexander.

Vivien also speaks with Senator Richard Di Natale about public health and climate change.

Occupy program PART1

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Occupy program PART2

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On Line Opinion: Small Island Mentality

Posted on 29 Nov 2011
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Australia is sometimes criticised as having a "small island" mentality; despite spanning over 7 million kilometres and hosting a population of over 22 million people. Australian politics since the Howard era has been characterised by a reluctance to embrace change, a fear of Australia's ever-vulnerable borders being breached and a reluctance to let go of the coal-mining, land-dependent image of the Aussie battler.

Despite students and the unemployed emerging from the Global Financial Crisis with $900 worth of stimulating spending money and the rest of the continent left relatively unscathed, Australia hangs on to the "times are tough" mentality - responding with hysteria to pricing carbon, hysteria to asylum seekers travelling by boat and slowly shifting denial to the realities of climate change.

Globally, Australia is comparatively doing fine. We don't have thousands packed in protest in one of our busiest streets. Nor do we have unemployment at a devastating 9%. We don't have widespread unease and violence, nor do we have an immanent fresh water crisis with no long term solution.

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Beyond Zero speak with Stuart Munckton, Emeretta Cross and Phil Glendinning on on the Pacific Emergency program

Posted on 30 Oct 2011
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Beyond Zero Emissions' Vivien Langford presents a special program, which focuses on the Pacific Emergency.

Vivien speaks with journalist Stuart Munckton about the serious problems currently facing the people of Tuvalu and the media's coverage of these issues.

She also speaks with activist Emeretta Cross about the cultural issues surrounding the migration to Australia of people from Tuvalu and Kiribati.

Lastly Vivien speaks to Phil Glendinning, refugee advocate from the Edmund Rice Centre about the Aboriginal connection with the Pacific and about his contribution to Tom Zubrycki's film The Hungry Tide

Stuart Munckton, Emeretta Cross and Phil Glendinning

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Beyond Zero talks to artists Debbie Symons and Jasmine Targett on the collaboration between artists and climate scientists

Posted on 02 Oct 2011
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BZE's Vivien Langford talks to artists Debbie Symons and Jasmine Targett.

They discuss the ways in which science and art can work together to communicate messages about climate change. They also discuss the ways in which art can make visible issues that otherwise evade our senses and understandings.

Debbie Symons and Jasmine Targett interview

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Fiona Armstrong from Climate and Health Alliance talks about the health risks of climate change

Posted on 31 Aug 2011
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BZE's Vivien Langford speaks with Fiona Armstrong, Convenor of the Climate and Health Alliance.

Fiona discusses the establishment in 2010 of the Climate and Health Alliance, which was formed in response to an increasing concern within the health profession of the lack of awareness around the health risks of climate change.

Fiona Armstrong interview

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David Spratt on rallies and four degrees of warming Part 1

Posted on 25 Jul 2011
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BZE's Vivien Langford speaks to David Spratt, community activist and co-author of "Climate Code Red: The Case For Emergency Action".

In this first interview, David and Vivien talk about the climate action movement and recent climate advocacy action rallies. David discusses the differences between grassroots community engagement and large scale media driven campaigns. They also discuss the climate action movement in gerneral.

BZE interviews David Spratt

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Beyond Zero speaks with Dave Kerin Project Officer from Eureka's Future about solar hot water

Posted on 25 Jul 2011
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Dave talks about the Eureka's Future solar hot water manufacturing co-operative. He discusses the difficulties that unestablished transition projects have in meeting current government funding criteria and explains his longer term plans to have similar renewables manufacturing factories rolled out in all Australian coal regions.

BZE speaks to Dave Kerin

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Carbon Price Response: A Small Step Forward, But Hard Yards Remain

Posted on 11 Jul 2011
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Climate and energy security think tank Beyond Zero Emissions welcome the Labor government’s carbon price package negotiated with The Greens and lower house independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor. The proposed legislation will start the process of transitioning Australia from a 19th Century fossil fuel economy to a 21st Century renewable-powered cleantech economy.

Beyond Zero Emissions Executive Director Matthew Wright said the government’s decision to plan for a 100 percent electricity sector is an important step toward Australia’s zero-carbon future:

“The government has accepted the challenge layed down by Beyond Zero Emissions less than 12 months ago with the release of our Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan, which is still Australia’s only feasibility study for a renewable energy powered economy. Tasking the Australian Energy Market Operator with planning for a 100 percent renewable energy sector will encourage a rigorous public debate about the best mix of renewables to achieving that goal.”

While the carbon price package is a step forward, hard yards remain. Matthew Wright said:

“The proposed ‘clean energy future’ legislation reflects the politics of climate change but not the science. The world’s carbon emissions are continuing to grow rapidly, so it’s important for the government to strengthen its initial climate change offering where possible.”

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Zero Emissions: It’s Simple!

Posted on 27 Jun 2011
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Denial and half-baked proposals for action constitute much of the debate about climate change in this country. There are, however, creative people quietly going about providing real solutions to the challenge. In this article, Brad Schultz outlines a well-developed plan for meeting our energy needs without producing carbon emissions.

As a young boy, I was inspired by things that people built. I was amazed how radios operated, how computers got faster and clearly remember one day walking through one of the cooling towers at Tarong Power Station, Kingaroy, and thinking “Wow!” I marveled at its grandness.

I’ve been an Engineer for over ten years now and I’ve gradually, sometimes nervously, come to see how such “grandness” is also a part of humankind’s undoing. While the media may have you believe that there is still a debate as to the science of climate change, those in the science community itself have long moved on to assessing the impacts of climate change.

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