CLIMATE ACTION THIS SATURDAY
Join us for the second Bike Ride and Walk for Climate in Ashburton.
The bike ride will start and end at the Ashburton Station car park in Aitchison Ave Ashburton. We will have climate action signs to attach to each bike. The route will be suitable for all levels of expertise.
Don’t ride a bike? No problems. We will also be leafleting on No New Coal or Gas in the vicinity of the station and the shopping centre.
So dust off those bicycle cobwebs and join us for a fun day of climate action.
We will finish the day with a cuppa at a local cafe.
Contact Will Howard for more details: 0408 357 658
* Please note our insurance will not cover the bike ride so you will be participating at your own risk.
Saturday 21 September
9.45am meeting time for a 10.00am ride
This allows 15 minutes to affix the signs to our bikes
Ashburton Station Car Park (West side of railway line)
AUSTRALIAN RELIGIOUS RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
ARRCC is part of a global partnership called GreenFaith and, as part of a Week of Action from 14 to 24 Sept, people of all faiths will join publicly with others calling for a clear plan to move rapidly away from coal and gas and towards a sustainable future.
There will be multi faith gatherings at some very high-profile places of worship in each major city on Tues 17 Sept across the country, where giant versions of the banners, or in our case here in Melbourne – a giant billboard will be unfurled.
This will be held outside St Paul’s Cathedral at 10am on Tuesday 17 September. We hope you can join us!
PUB NIGHT – THE FUTURE OF HIGGINS CAN
Thanks to all those who attended the Pub Night and contributed their ideas to the future of Higgins CAN, when and if the seat of Higgins is abolished.
The consensus on the night was to go for the following option: The Higgins CAN supporter group will form a working group within Lighter Footprints. It will operate in the existing boundaries of the Higgins electorate and continue to campaign on climate.
A member of the existing Higgins CAN committee will join the Lighter Footprints committee. A name for the new group is yet to be decided but that can wait until the final decision from the AEC in October.
We welcome any suggestions going forward. The Higgins CAN team is very pleased with this outcome.
A DUTY OF CARE
Senator David Pocock and Anjali Sharma are promoting the Duty of Care Bill in Parliament right now and need public support behind them to progress the legislation.
Join 16,000+ other Australians and support the bill with your signature below.
THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT
Installed solar capacity is doubling every three years. To give an idea of the standing start the industry has grown from, The Economist reports that in 2004 it took the world an entire year to install one gigawatt of solar capacity (about enough to power a small city). This year, that’s expected to happen every day.
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