FoE
FoE Annual General Meeting, Nov 30th
FoE members and friends are welcome to attend our AGM, 2pm at the Box Factory, November 30th.
The meeting will be held in the kitchen, upstairs at the Box Factory. Drink & Nibbles provided.
Before the formal business of the AGM, we shall have introductions and welcomes, and enjoy a presentation by our Guest Speaker on a Hydrogen Economy.
Agenda for the Adelaide FoE AGM
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- Minutes of Previous AGM
- Reports
- Appointment of Office-bearers
- Facilitator
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Membership officer
- Public Officer
- Other members of the Administration and Strategy Collective
- Amendments to the constitution (if any)
- Proposals from Members
- Any Other Business
Repairing the Planet
Practical solutions to environmental concerns are addressed with the hope that filmmaker Damon Gameau’s daughter, 21 years old in the year 2040, will face a hopeful future.
The film looks at possible solutions in four key areas:
Energy
We look at what can be done with solar panels capturing sunlight and trading it between neighbouring houses.
What happens if we extend the idea to trade electricity over a larger region?
Can we manage our own energy more easily and cheaply than a massive centralised system?
Transport
Is it the end of the motorcar?
Or should me move to rented autonomous vehicles?
Perhaps better public transport?
And what could we do with the space currently taken up by super highways?
Food Production
Can we revise our food production to take better care of the soils, making them more productive
and allowing them to store more carbon at the same time?
Will growing food locally be more productive?
Should we move to a vegetarian diet?
Education
How can we release the creativity of those denied education?
What might happen if people who couldn’t afford education
— or were denied it by virtue of belief, gender or background — were given
the chance to create opportunities and solutions for their regions?
If you’d like to see this movie, you can get tickets for $15/$10 concession, or two tickets for $20.
Why not bring a friend to our screening on November 12th, 7pm at the Mercury?
Act Now! to Stop changes to Gene Tech regulations
Louise Sales writes:
We’ve had a fantastic breakthrough in our campaign to try to stop the Federal Government from tearing up regulations that are designed to keep us safe. Last week, Greens Senator Janet Rice submitted a motion to disallow proposed changes to the Gene Technology Regulations that would leave risky new genetic modification techniques such as CRISPR unregulated. The Senate will vote on the motion on September 17th.
2019: the climate election
Apr 24, 2019: FoE Australia media release
The federal election will be held on May 18. With climate change already bearing down on us, a recent decision by the government of Scott Morrison to sign off on Commonwealth approvals for the Adani Carmichael coal mine, and a robust debate about energy and renewables, there is no doubt that this will be the #climateelection.
Elections are a time to remind all parties that they need to deliver solid action on climate change and the environment.
The following are our key policy proposals for the 2019 federal election.
Listen to the science
Climate science makes it abundantly clear that if we want to have a hope of avoiding dangerous climate change we must stop digging up fossil fuels.
Parties must:
- Commit to stopping the Adani Carmichael coal mine in Queensland
- Commit Australia to 100% renewable energy by 2030
- Rule out coal-to-hydrogen technologies in any plan to develop a hydrogen industry
- Rule out supporting or funding experimental waste-carbon injection (carbon capture and storage) projects
- Rule out releasing further offshore oil and gas exploration licenses, as NZ/ Aotearoa has done
- Support the No More Bad Investments legislation
- Rule out forcing the medium level radioactive waste dump on unwilling communities
Start the transition
The time for coal is over. We need to transform our economy. We need to take everyone with us – this means supporting sectors and communities which will be on the frontline of structural change.
At the federal level, this includes the need to:
- Extend the existing national Renewable Energy Target (RET) beyond 2020, with the addition of policies to encourage the rollout of energy storage
- Enshrine action on climate change in the National Electricity Market (NEM) rules to guide the transition to renewable energy
- Establish a public authority Transition Australia to guide the shift to 100% renewable energy in the electricity sector and provide transition programs for people in areas that have historically been dependent on coal mining
- Get the Climate Change Authority to undertake an immediate update of Australia’s carbon budget and the emissions cuts needed to limit warming to 1.5oC
- Each year, the impacts of climate change grow.