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Voices from Regional Vic: Bringing on the Climate Emergency
September 16, 2018
By Peter Gardner, a community climate champion from East Gippsland. Article originally published at Peter's blog. A perceptive and important article on the climate emergency in the Age by Paul Gilding appeared recently. Gilding compared the current...
Read More Add your reaction ShareHold AGL accountable for climate action!
September 13, 2018
AGL are still Australia’s largest climate polluters. They paint themselves as a green and clean company while remaining Australia’s biggest emitter of C02! They have a dirty plan to turn Westernport Bay into a...
Read More Add your reaction ShareMatthew Guy in focus as community members mount detective hunt for the opposition's missing climate policy
September 04, 2018
Community members have mocked opposition leader Matthew Guy and the Coalition for their failure to deliver a climate change policy in a theatrical action at Parliament House. Friends of the Earth, representatives from the Victorian Trades...
Read More Add your reaction ShareHappy #VicGasBan 2 year Anniversary!
August 30, 2018
Today marks 2 years since Premier Daniel Andrews announced a permanent ban on all onshore gas mining in Victoria! Happy Anniversary! Across the state, people worked tirelessly for the Gasfield Free campaign and it...
Read More Add your reaction ShareWill Daniel Andrews and Matthew Guy seize the opportunity to act on climate?
August 29, 2018
Originally published at Renew Economy.Victoria will go to the polls in less than three months. The outcome of the 2018 state election will have big implications for tackling climate change and rolling out renewable...
Read More Add your reaction ShareVic govt's Solar Homes Plan, good news for Ripon and climate action
August 28, 2018
Community-driven environment group Friends of the Earth have welcomed the Andrews government's Solar Homes Plan to rollout solar panels on 650,000 homes across Victoria. The group—which has been working with community members in the...
Read More Add your reaction Share100 days til the VIC election
August 16, 2018
With the Victorian state election only 100 days away, we’re working hard to ensure that all political parties take meaningful climate and environmental policies to the election. We’ve been in campaign mode since last...
Read More Add your reaction ShareAugust 2018 Update - Just under 4 months until Victorians hit the polls
August 08, 2018
We all know that the state election which will happen on November 24 is a high stakes one for climate and environment policy. With the Coalition threatening to tear up the state renewable energy...
Read More Add your reaction ShareThe Climate Budget: The Critical Step for Climate Action in Vic
July 18, 2018
We have the solutions to climate change. Humanity has known for decades that the burning of fossil fuels releases greenhouse gas into the atmosphere which drives atmospheric warming and worsens events such as droughts,...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareVic Climate Solutions for the Grampians & Ballarat welcome, yet "planned approach" for climate investment needed
July 17, 2018
Friends of the Earth has welcomed the Andrews government's twin announcements of the Grampians New Energy Taskforce and funding for the Asia-Pacific Renewable Energy Centre at Federation Uni in Ballarat, yet the group has...
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