Climate Tasmania

Tasmanians seeking an effective climate action policy now have something to get their teeth into. A broad-based group has established ten strategies to make the island carbon-neutral by 2050. [20 October 2009 | Peter Boyer]
On a sunny Saturday morning a couple of weekends ago, about 50 people got together in Hobart to talk about climate change. [...]

We’ve waited a long time for climate change action. Increasingly, people in communities have decided that it’s time to stop waiting and start doing. [8 September 2009 | Peter Boyer]
There’s a play about a couple of blokes, Vladimir and Estragon, who are waiting for someone called Godot. Little is said and even less happens — in [...]

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. [...]