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.

Reality: the only game that counts

The pricking of the bubble that was endless economic growth should be a lesson to us in tackling climate change.

A Danish lesson for Tasmanian communities and councils

The Samsø lesson: we can meet the climate-energy challenge, but it requires self-belief, imagination and commitment over the long term.

Government and Reality: Persuading politicians we have a problem

Address to Climate Change Action Forum, Dechaineaux Theatre, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart. [18 September 2008 | Peter Boyer]
“Houston, we have a problem,” was how Apollo Thirteen conveyed to its mother planet that its crew was in imminent peril with a next-to-zero chance of survival. Houston Command Center got the message, and with disciplined thinking [...]