ORCA has been asked to contribute a visible action to the switch off Hazelwood campaign.
You can help make a photo using the Switch off Hazelwood logo. We will meet at the Apollo Bay Market site on Tuesday 13th July at 3:30pm sharp. We may also be joined by Greens Candidate for Corangamite, Mike Lawrence, who is concerned that we promote the renewable alternatives to coal.
Don’t forget the launch of the Zero Carbon Stationary Energy Plan – 14th July
Questions? Ring Simon 0419575525.
This plan is unique in Australia. It is a detailed and costed blueprint for transitioning our stationary energy sector to 100% renewable energy in ten years. The technologies utilised in this plan are commercially available now. It has been put together in a collaborative way involving over 50 technical experts.
You are cordially invited to attend the Melbourne launch of the Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan.
This cutting-edge plan, the culmination of over 12 months and thousands of hours of pro bono work by engineers, scientists and postgraduate students, is a collaboration between the climate solutions think tank Beyond Zero Emissions, and the University of Melbourne Energy Institute.
The free public lecture will cover the details of the plan as well as the state of renewable energy in Australia more broadly. A panel discussion will follow the presentations.
The details of the event are:
Wednesday 14 July, 6-8pm
Basement Theatre, The Spot
198 Berkeley St, Carlton
Speakers:
John Daley (CEO, Grattan Institute)
Keith Lovegrove (Solar Thermal Group Leader, ANU)
Lane Crockett (General Manager, Pacific Hydro)
Matthew Wright (Executive Director Beyond Zero Emissions)
The full report will be made available for the first time on 14 July, free to download from the Beyond Zero Emissions website or hard copy for purchase.
Dowbload flyer[PDF 422KB]
Amidst all the political debate in Australia, population growth has become inextricably linked to economic growth and our future prosperity. If the climate change problem is going to be addressed successfully, the global population growth rate cannot be ignored.
A Public Forum on Population Growth and Climate Change Saturday July 3rd 4pm to 6.30pm Surfworld Sport and Rec Centre Torquay (organised by SCEG see flyer [PDF 127KB]):
How necessary is population growth?
Is growing the Australian population sustainable?
Kelvin Thomson MP, Member for Wills
Mr Thomson has in recent months spoken in Parliament and in public about his desire to put the brakes on Australia’s – and the planet’s – population growth rate. His 14 point plan provides concrete details on how this could be achieved.
Mark O’Connor
Author of 17 books, including This Tired Brown Land, a study of sustainability, population, and ecology in Australia, and Co-author of Overloading Australia: How governments and media dither and deny on population. Many ABC talks, including six on Ockhams Razor.
Dr. Bob Birrell
Bob is the director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University in Melbourne. He is one of Australia’s leading social scientists. Bob is joint editor with Katharine Betts of the quarterly demographic journal People and Place published by CPUR.
Members of Otway Ranges Climate Action (ORCA) gathered in Apollo Bay on Sunday as part of a national effort to call for renewable energy. Events are happening simultaneously in all states across Australia – with each event calling for Australia to choose a clean energy future.
We have abundant sources of local energy in the Otways such as wind, waves, geothermal biomass and solar. ORCA firmly believes that it is possible for our region to convert these sources to provide 100% renewable energy for our region,” said ORCA Co-Chair, Simon Pockley.
Support for renewable energy is widespread. Community groups from Brisbane to Ballarat, Cairns to Canberra are taking action locally. From rural communities to the streets of the city, from grandparents to students, from farmers to doctors, renewable energy has broad support in the community because it makes sense.
“Right now Australia faces a choice,” said 100% Renewable spokesperson Lindsay Soutar. “We can continue our dependence on fossil fuels, mining and burning coal, polluting our air and water, damaging our farmland and heath, and making an unstable climate or we can make the switch to 100% renewable energy.”
“Australia has an extraordinary natural advantage – access to sun, space and wind — we can use these natural resources to create clean, safe power that will never run out,” she said.
“The 100% renewable campaign is calling for the Australian government to introduce a clean energy bonus scheme – or feed-in tariff – to support renewable technologies from rooftop solar, to community solar and wind projects, to industrial scale renewable energy projects,” Soutar said.
“Renewable energy will create new industries, and lots of new jobs. Right now the rest of the world is investing in clean energy and we don’t want Australia to be left behind – we want to be a clean energy leader,” said ORCA Co-Chair Matt Armstrong.
For more information go to: The 100% renewable campaign