The Zero Emission Network is organising a Zero Emission Conference for June 30th to July 1st at RMIT in Melbourne. The Conference will have two parts. The first day will focus on the solutions needed to implement a fast transition to a Zero Emissions Minus future. The second day will consist of campaign skills training, workshops, Zero Emission Network AGM and a strategic planning meeting. BZE will be talking on transport and electricity .

Come down to Lentils As Anything at the Abbotsford Convent on the evening of Friday May 25th from 7pm for the Beyond Zero Emissions fundraiser!

There will be a trio of speakers starting around 7.45pm:
Adrian Whitehead - Avoiding a runaway climate event
Matthew Wright - Near zero emissions solutions
Rob Campbell - The science behind choosing a zero emissions target

George Monbiot believes that emissions reductions targets set by governments are woefully inadequate. He argues that we need to reduce greenhouse gases below existing levels. His article, which follows, was published in the Guardian, 1st May 2007 and can also be viewed on Monbiot's website.

Matthew talks on 3CR Breakfast Radio about Howard and Rudd's reluctance to accept the economic and environmental potentials of renewable energy. Listen here.

Matthew Wright, BZE campaigner, talks to Leon Byner on Adelaide Radio 5aa at Midday, 17 April 07 and talking to Peter from Radio Adelaide 8AM, 18 April 07 about converting our automotive manufacturing to plug-in hybrid drive.
Listen to 5aa Tue podcast

Come and hear four experienced speakers talk about why climate change is the most serious issue facing humankind and how we as a community can work to avoid dangerous climate change and how we will achieve this goal.

Beyond Zero Emissions lead campaigner, Adrian Whitehead will address the first training camp for 2007 of the Victorian Cross Campus Environment Network.

Topics discussed will include why we need to move to Zero Emission Minus goal, why we have to achieve this by 2020, how we will achieve this and what role universities have to play.

The talk will be held in the coastal Otways Region of Victoria.

The website is back http://miningnsw.com.au/
sending up http://nswmining.com.au/

A satirical website created by climate action group Rising Tide Newcastle has twice been shut down this fortnight [late February] by powerful coal industry lobby group, the NSW Minerals Council.

The website was conceived as a response to the Minerals Council's 'Life. Brought to you by Mining' advertising campaign. The Minerals Council campaign, which argues that mining is inextricable from modern luxury, can be viewed at www.nswmining.com.au. Rising Tide members created a parody website at www.miningnsw.com.au in order to present the other side of the story and address the damage wrought by mining to the local and global environment and to the local community.

The Palm Sunday Alliance for a Peaceful and Nuclear Free Future has organised a peace parade and festival for Nuclear Fools Day - April 1st. Gather at 1pm at Treasury Gardens, or earlier for a picnic, then parade to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl for comedy, bands and a festival from 3pm to 6pm.

As The Palm Sunday Alliance say on their website www.nuclearfoolsday.org/home, 'Palm Sunday has a long history across the world where people come together and mobilise for a peaceful future and nuclear disarmament. A growing collaboration of groups has seized upon the opportunity to come together, in this federal election year, to demand our political representatives stop their Nuclear Foolishness, instead creating a future for Australia that is free from uranium mines, nuclear waste dumps, nuclear power stations and to get out from under the American Nuclear weapons umbrella.'

Join in and create a human sign "HALT CLIMATE CHANGE NOW" on Sandringham Beach.

Be no later than 10.00am.

3000 people are needed, wear dark clothes.

The event is modelled on the successful event held by the NSW South Coast Group "Clean Energy for Eternity" organised by NSW South Coast surgeon Matthew Nott.

RSVP Coni Forcey 9598 3272 by 15 March.

Organised by Bayside Climate Change.