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 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.

BZE ran three presentations at the 2007 Sustainable Living Festival.

Our key event was titled "Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change - Zero Emission Minus Option" and ran in the Think Tent on Saturday 17th between 3pm and 4pm. Adrian Whitehead, Matthew Wright, Chris Taylor and Philip Sutton talked through various issues on the subject and were well received. 50 people watched the talk, despite the intense heat inside the tent and a programming clash with another climate change event run in the cooler and much larger "Edge" theater.

There were also two presentations for schoolchildren, both on Friday 16th. The first was titled 'Climate Change For Kids', was run by Adrian Whitehead and Paula Rowlings, and was aimed at children as young as eight years old. The second was titled 'Climate Change for Secondary Students'. The Climate Change for kids talk went really well.

Beyond Zero Emissions' Matthew Wright and Adrian Whitehead attended the invitation-only event held in Melbourne on Monday the 12th of February.

The event's purpose was to outline the emergency we face across all sectors of sustainability, and to identify and discuss ways we can create the needed change in thinking that will enable us to deal effectively with the great problems we face.

Matthew and Adrian ran the Zero Emission Minus fast transition workshop.

The event was the brainchild of Philip Sutton from the Greenleap Strategic Institute and was co-hosted by Sustainable Living Foundation, Friends of the Earth, Western Region Environment Centre, Greenleap Strategic Institute, Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society, The National Centre for Sustainability and Futureye.