Climate Tasmania

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

Greenhouse warming? As ridiculous as a sun-centred solar system!

The year just ended produced ample evidence that both the level of global carbon emissions and public awareness about the dangers of inaction are headed in the wrong direction. [3 January 2012 | Peter Boyer]
With a brand spanking new 2012 upon us, now is as good a time as any to check our bearings [...]

How communities are succeeding despite the odds

In these trying times, we can gain strength from each other and the natural world. [29 November 2011 | Peter Boyer]
As I write this there’s a glorious day outside. Green grass is still moist from yesterday’s showers, buds everywhere are bursting into flower and leaf, and the dog lies snoozing in the sun. All would [...]

Powershift 2011: young people breaking through the barriers

By Soliman Aït Maamar | 18 November 2011
Powershift is organised annually by the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, an organisation bringing together young people seeking to make a real impact on Australia’s (and the world’s) effort to abate our greenhouse emissions and help their communities to work with, not against, nature. This year’s event in Brisbane [...]