Tim Flannery on the Climate Challenge 20 August
Professor Tim Flannery – The Climate Challenge Beyond the Paris Summit
Thursday, 20 August 2015 from 6pm
Braggs Lecture Theatre
Adelaide University
Free tickets – bookings here
Sustainability
FoE at Students of Sustainability next week
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.
Radtour kicks off!
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.
Introducing our new CANE campaigner!
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
Report back – Diesendorf Renewables Talk at the Conservation Council
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.