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.

How strong local communities make stronger economies

Boosting local business isn’t just a way of reducing our carbon footprint. It’s also an essential step in making economies everywhere more able to resist downturns. [28 July 2009 | Peter Boyer]
For all the talk about how we should consume less, stay at home and grow our own food, money still makes the world go round. [...]

Should we be optimistic?

It’s hard to stay positive about reducing carbon emissions in the face of so much evidence that we’re in very serious trouble, but human energy and imagination gives cause for hope. [21 July 2009 | Peter Boyer]
In these troubled times, when the heady, innocent days of wine and roses are a fast-fading memory (if they ever [...]

Town planning: a missing link in the struggle to cut emissions

The built environment is responsible for a big chunk of our carbon emissions. There cannot be a solution without big changes to the way we plan and operate our urban centres. [14 July 2009 | Peter Boyer]
It’s hard to visualise carbon entering the atmosphere. Television producers turn repeatedly to images of car exhaust pipes and industry [...]