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Thoughts & IdeasJune 2009
LEAN is very excited to announce our launch as a national organisation at ALP National Conference on Thursday 30 July. To celebrate, we're having a cocktail party at the Star Room at Darling Harbour - please see the attached flier - with more details to be available soon - put it in your diary now! READ MORE » May 2009
6pm Tuesday 9 June. With Gabrielle Kuiper, Co-convenor, LEAN and Ben McNeil, author, The Clean Industrial Revolution READ MORE » LEAN’s online climate change policy consultation – closes Wednesday 27 May! - 13 May 2009 All ALP members are invited to contribute to the Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN)’s climate change policy and campaign. LINK READ MORE » Al Gore training in Melbourne, Applications close: 5pm, Friday May 29th - 12 May 2009 Looking for a once in a lifetime opportunity to graduate in your efforts on climate change? The Climate Project - Australia is now looking for passionate people committed to making a difference on climate change to apply for a place at the Asia-Pacific Summit, to be held in Melbourne, Australia from 11th to 13th July, 2009. LINK READ MORE » LEAN WA launch: 6pm, Tuesday 19 May - 10 May 2009 You are invited to the launch of the LABOR ENVIRONMENT ACTION NETWORK - WA BRANCH by Senator Louise Pratt on Tuesday, 19 May 2009 from 6pm in the Large Caucus Room at Parliament House. Hon Alannah MacTiernan and David Hodgkinson will also speak. READ MORE » April 2009
The Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN) invites you to join them for lunch with: Hon. Nathan Rees, Premier of New South Wales; and Hon. Mike Rann, Premier of South Australia. READ MORE » LEAN Victoria website live - and new national site coming! - 25 April 2009 LEAN Victoria have created a new website and LEAN is working on a new national website - join our mailing list and we'll let you know when it's live. All donations towards the cost of the new website are also greatly appreciated - see our donate page. LINK READ MORE » LEAN speaker on climate change at the Crunchtime conference - 20 April 2009 LEAN Co-convenor Gabrielle Kuiper will speak with John Connor, CEO of the Climate Institute on climate change at the Crunchtime Conference on Wednesday 22 April. LINK READ MORE » Do you want to take action on climate change in the Hunter? - 15 April 2009 The Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN) is looking for people who'd like to be trained as LEAN Ambassadors and who would then be willing to speak at their own and other local branch meetings. On Sunday 26 April at the Hamilton Station Hotel Dining Room we'll be holding training for LEAN Ambassadors in the Hunter. READ MORE » Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom - 05 April 2009 Public Lecture by Dr Guy Pearse (ANU Podcast) In this lecture Dr Guy Pearse spoke about the mindset that sees Australia's greatest asset as its mineral and energy resources - coal especially, asking how has this distorted our national politics and our response to climate change and what happens now that our coal-fired resources boom has gone bust? He also discussed the future of the coal industry and argued with the current economic orthodoxy. He looks at the shadowy world of greenhouse lobbyists; how they think and operate. Quarry vision, he argued, is a carbon-laced trap and a blind faith and a mentality we can no longer afford. This lecture comes from the March 2009 Quarterly Essay by Guy Pearse of the same name. LINK READ MORE » March 2009
You are invited to the launch of Labor Environment Action Network Queensland at ALP Office, 1st Floor, TLC Building, 16 Peel Street, South Brisbane. Saturday 4th April 2009 noon to 1pm, RSVP: Helen Abrahams - ph 0414 514 990 READ MORE » We can keep jobs and save the planet - 11 March 2009 Ian Dunlop, The Age, 6 March 2009 The target for stabilisation of atmospheric carbon to avoid catastrophic consequences and maintain a safe climate is now probably a concentration of less than 300 ppm carbon dioxide, not the outdated 450-550 ppm carbon dioxide in current proposal. LINK READ MORE » Arctic summer ice could vanish by 2013, expert says - 11 March 2009 David Ljunggren, Reuters, 6 March 2009 The Arctic is warming up so quickly that the region's sea ice cover in summer could vanish as early as 2013, decades earlier than some had predicted, a leading polar expert said on Thursday. LINK READ MORE » ABC Four Corners Heat on the Hill - 09 March 2009 Reporter: Liz Jackson Broadcast: 09/03/2009. On the eve of the government's release of its controversial climate change legislation, reporter Liz Jackson investigates the relentless lobbying campaign conducted by environmentalists and industry over the past 12 months. Both sides are unhappy and the government is feeling the heat. LINK READ MORE » February 2009
One of LEAN’s key actions for 2009 is to educate ALP branches about climate change and what we can do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, create a ‘green collar revolution’ and ensure human rights are maintained. One way we are doing this is by training LEAN Ambassadors to speak with branches. This will be high quality training and will help improve branch members’ public speaking skills as well as their knowledge of climate change. READ MORE » New LEAN logo - 23 February 2009 Pete Johnson has designed a great new logo for LEAN consistent with the new style ALP logo. Many thanks Pete! READ MORE » Moving to a Clean Economy - 20 February 2009 In mid 2007, LEAN brought together an expert panel and developed this Climate Change Action Plan for the Rudd Labor Government. The Plan - released a year ago - outlines the economic benefits of action, some opportunities and the need to address the winners and losers from the various policy proposals. Feel free to circulate it to ALP members and friends. We will be updating this plan shortly - please email us if you'd like to be involved. READ MORE » LEAN is launching in Victoria - 16 February 2009 On 28 February, Gabrielle Kuiper from the NSW Labor Environment Action Network will be speaking in Victoria about how rank-and-file ALP members can help shape Labor’s environment policy. READ MORE » January 2009
FEATURE ARTICLE - WINTER 2009 - Alisa Gravitz LINK READ MORE » The Green Collar Economy How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems - 20 January 2009 "Van Jones demonstrates conclusively that the best solutions for the survivability of our planet are also the best solutions for everyday Americans" - Al Gore.It's time to bailout both the people and the planet. The first book from acclaimed social justice and environmental activist Van Jones, The Green Collar Economy tells us how to do it. The New York Times best-seller delivers a real solution that both rescues our economy and saves the environment. LINK READ MORE » Defence warns of climate conflict ; EXCLUSIVE; Jonathan Pearlman and Ben Cubby - 10 January 2009 Sydney Morning Herald January 7, 2009. RISING sea levels could lead to failed states across the Pacific and require extra naval deployments to deal with increases in illegal migration and fishing, a Defence Force analysis says. "Environmental stress" has increased the risk of conflicts over resources and food and may demand greater involvement by the military in stabilisation, reconstruction and disaster relief, the analysis, prepared by Defence's strategic policy division, says.It warns there is a risk of a serious global conflict over the Arctic as melting icecaps allow easier access to undersea oil and gas deposits. LINK READ MORE » Carbon Trading Schemes - presentation Prof. Bill Mitchell CofFEE - 06 January 2009 'Carbon Trading Schemes - privatisation of the commons.' In this presentation to Hunter LEAN, 6 August 2008, Prof. Bill Mitchell (Centre of Full Employment and Equity, Newcastle University) compares the failures of a market-based sloution such as a carbon trading scheme CTS using the EU ETS as an example, and the benefits of rules-based regulation such as carbon tax systems, to curb carbon emissions.Included is a brief introduction to the Report "A Just Transition to a Renewable Energy Economy in the Hunter Region, Australia', prepared for Greenpeace Australia. READ MORE » December 2008
At a high-level academic conference on global warming at Exeter University this summer, climate scientist Kevin Anderson (Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at Manchester University,)stood before his expert audience and contemplated a strange feeling. He wanted to be wrong. Many of those in the room who knew what he was about to say felt the same.... In the jargon used to count the steady accumulation of carbon dioxide in the Earth's thin layer of atmosphere, he said it was "improbable" that levels could now be restricted to 650 parts per million (ppm). LINK READ MORE » Booklist on climate change - 23 December 2008 An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore, 2006, Mecher media, ISBN 0 7475 8906 2 , 325 pages Glossy, easy to read version of his film. Good summary of the problem but little detail on what needs to be done. Video available. New video and book expected soon; Atlas of Climate Change by Kirstin Dow and Thomas E Downing, 2007 Earthscan, PBK ISBN 1-84407-376-9; Carbon Detox by George Marshall Carbon Detox, George Marshall, 2007, Octapus Publishing, ISBN 978-1-85675-288-6; Climate Change Begins at Home by Dave Reay, MacMillan, 2005 ISBN-13 978-1-4039-4578-5, 203 pages... LINK READ MORE » Message from Premier Mike Rann - 13 December 2008 Dear Friends, In Poznan, Poland this week, I Chaired the Climate Leaders Summit. The meeting of State, Regional and Provincial Ministers from around the world endorsed the action plan to address accelerating climate change. I have attached a copy of my opening address and the action plan.
MIKE RANN November 2008
Some LEAN members are concerned about the weak policy recommendations in the final Garnaut Review and so we have drafted a standard motion which can be passed by branches and sent to the Rudd Labor Government calling for strong action on climate change. READ MORE » Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip - 23 November 2008 A brilliant animation explaining the concept of tipping points - the science and possible future scenarios of dangeous climate chage - and ideas about what we can do about it. LINK READ MORE »
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