Climate Tasmania

A Tasmanian take on the thorniest global issue since the dinosaurs. Based on Peter Boyer’s newspaper column in the Hobart Mercury.

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Climate Reality

The Climate Reality Project (originally named The Climate Project), founded by Al Gore, came to Australia in 2006. There are five Al Gore-trained Climate Reality volunteer presenters in Tasmania. To book a presentation for your school, community or workplace group, email Sustainable Living Tasmania or telephone (03) 62345566. The Climate Reality Project is administered in Australia by the Australian Conservation Foundation.

Developing climate leaders of the future

Climate and sustainability need to be built in to our school curriculum, building on the separate efforts of individual teachers and students to raise awareness of the need to change.

Climate change demands an educational re-think

If we’re to make headway in reducing carbon emissions, we need to help our young people develop the resources they need for this long-term task. In the process we will all find many rewards.

Are the long years of shadow-boxing coming to an end?

Climate change may now be starting to get the prominence it deserves in political circles, but given the big paradigm shifts we need to make, our leaders still have much to get their heads around.