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.

Where’s the action in this “action plan”?

Tasmania’s new climate-energy plan lacks the spark that could get us going. We can do better. [2 August 2011 | Peter Boyer]
Tasmania is well placed to act decisively on climate change and lead the world in embracing a low-carbon future, the Tasmanian Climate Action Council told the government last year.
Citing Tasmania’s advantages, including hydro energy, [...]

BZE Hobart launch rated a great success. Now to get parliament interested…

The Hobart launch of the Beyond Zero Emissions energy plan last night got many more people than organisers had bargained for. If only the interest could extend to State Parliament. [12 November 2010 | Peter Boyer]
On a humid Thursday evening (11 November) in Hobart, Climate Action Hobart hosted two key people behind the much-talked-about Beyond Zero Emissions [...]

Our first climate minister sees cause for hope

Tasmania’s new climate change minister Nick McKim is an optimist, which according to one definition is an uninformed pessimist. But he’s determined to make a difference. [1 June 2010 | Peter Boyer]
To use a topical metaphor, science and politics are like oil and water. One deals with the world as it is, the other with the [...]