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FoE at Students of Sustainability next week

robyn July 1, 2015

Fair Food Adelaide’s Kim Hill is delivering two workshops at next week’s Students of Sustainability conference at Flinders University – “The End of Agriculture” on Thursday 10th and “Edible Weed Walk” on Satuday 11th. Clean Future Collective’s Dr Philip Smith is delivering a nuke free workshop on Friday with FoE Australia’s Dr Jim Green.

Come and say hi at our FOE stall on Saturday – incorporating Fair Food Adelaide, March Against Monsanto and the Clean Futures Collective with a focus on the nuclear royal commission.

Details here.

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Radtour kicks off!

robyn June 27, 2015

The Radioactive Exposure tour left Melbourne today for its tour up the east coast of NSW before turning west to SA.

You can keep in touch with their exploits here.

The tour is expected to arrive in Adelaide on Tues 7th July in time for the Students of Sustainability conference.

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Introducing our new CANE campaigner!

robyn June 27, 2015

We are very pleased to announce that Nectaria Calan has accepted the position of Anti-Nuclear/Pro-Renewables Campaigner with the Clean Futures Collective’s Campaign Against Nuclear Expansion.

Nectaria will work with us on a part time basis over the next six months. She holds a Bachelor of International Studies (Honours) and has previously worked with us as an Anti-Nuclear Coordinator. She brings strong skills and experience in grass roots activism and media.

Nectaria is passionate about environmental issues, and strongly believes that the social and environmental problems the nuclear industry creates far outweigh those it purports to solve. She was an organiser and spokesperson for the Lizards Revenge event, a week long protest-festival held at the gates of the Olympic Dam mine in July 2012 to raise awareness and protest the mine, its expansion, and the broader impacts of uranium.

Nectaria’s responsibilities will include:

– tracking activities of the SA Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission
– coordinating FoE responses to the Royal Commission
– providing the initial point-of-contact for media
– encouraging volunteers to join FoE CFC campaign
– coordinating volunteer activities
– liaising with other groups working on related issues

Members, donors and friends can keep up with the CANE campaign by signing up to our elist to receive meeting minutes – email robyn.wood@foe.org.au

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Raising CANE: the Campaign Against Nuclear Expansion

roman June 25, 2015

The SA Government has launched a Royal Commission into the Nuclear Fuel Cycle in the hope of garnering support for an expansion of the nuclear industry. The terms of reference and the makeup of the commission and its experts are clearly biassed towards expanding the industry.

We believe this is an attempt to soften up the public for the creation of a nuclear waste dump for high-level waste from overseas.

FoE Adelaide are proud to announce the launch of the Campaign Against Nuclear Expansion

We believe that renewable energy is the best alternative to fossil fuels and SA is not the place for a nuclear waste dump, an enrichment facility or expansion of uranium mining.

How you can help

If you’ve got time, or skills to help in the campaign, contact FoE Adelaide or meet fellow campaigners upstairs at Kappy’s Tea & Coffee Merchants at 1/22 Compton Street, Adelaide, between 4 and 6pm Mondays.

Keep up to date on events by joining the FoE anti-nuke google newsgroup (email robyn.wood@foe.org.au and ask to subscribe), or subscribe to the fortnightly email from FoE Adelaide (form on website adelaide.foe.org.au, bottom left).

Join Friends of the Earth Adelaide

If you’ve got a busy job and can afford it, please contribute to the CANE fund, either with a one-off donation, or a regular contribution (eg $10, $20 or $50) for several weeks or months. Here’s an online donation form

FoE Adelaide Plans

Friends of the Earth Adelaide have hired a part-time campaigner to respond to the Royal Commission into the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, highlighting how we wish to keep our state nuclear-free. They’ll also note opportunities to interact with the Royal Commission and campaign for renewables.

We’ve already allocated $5000 towards the campaign, but we hope to raise more funds to extend the campaign into the public arena.
When we reach $15,000, we’ll extend the hours of our campaigner, and provide financial support for FoE Australia’s Nuclear Campaigner Dr Jim Green, so that he can focus on the Royal Commission at key stages of its process.
Reaching $20,000, we can also prepare and circulate leaflets about key issues and counter some of the pro-nuclear propaganda.
With $30,000, we’ll be able to start a series of big public meetings on the issues, focussing not just on the dangers of nuclear power/waste, but also boosting the case for expanding the state’s use of renewables.
$40,000 would let us employ a campaigner full-time, perhaps organising visits from international experts and canvassing key electorates, surveying their preferences for an energy future.

Our local campaigner will track the Royal Commission activities, plan our campaign, arrange public meetings, disseminate information, build our membership and coordinate volunteers.

The battle in South Australia is highly relevant to all Australians as it has been suggested that SA host a dump site for the world’s high level nuclear waste.

If you would like to give a one-off or ongoing donation you can use the online form at

https://www.givenow.com.au/foeadelaide

Donations are tax deductible.

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Report back – Diesendorf Renewables Talk at the Conservation Council

robyn June 17, 2015

A great talk last night In Conversation with Professor Mark Diesendorf at the Conservation Council, letting us know a roadmap to SA becoming 100% renewable in 15 years. He explained why nuclear is definitely the wrong way to go.

The Conservation Council have an auto petition email you can send to Premier Weatherill to ask him to go renewable – at the link.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by and said hello at our FOE stall.

The Conservation Council’s latest report shows we can build on SA’s world-leading success and get to 100% renewables in just 15 years!

Conservation SA commissioned leading energy expert Dr Mark Diesendorf to investigate the feasibility of 100% renewable electricity for South Australia by 2030. The report finds that this is entirely achievable even without supportive Federal Government policies.

You can view or download a summary of the report’s findings or the full report.

Most exciting is that we don’t need to wait for a supportive Federal Government: to seize this opportunity we just need our State Government to act.

Clean Futures, Climate, Nuclear, Renewables, Sustainability, Transport

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