June saw the start of the 'Our Climate, Our Future' ship tour of the Pacific with Greenpeace ship Esperanza. In Australia, thousands attended a climate rally and, in Portugual, the International Whaling Commission met.
On 13 June 2009, thousands of Australians took to the streets of the country's capital cities. They were there to demand the federal government step up its response to the climate emergency.
The federal government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme needs to go back the the drawing board. In the meantime, here's a plan for implementing immediate solutions that will reduce emissions and create jobs.
In May, our activists shut down a massively polluting power station's coal digger, we projected messages for Kevin Rudd on a cooling tower and one of our photographers snapped beautiful images of a blue whale off Sri Lanka.
Concentrating solar power (CSP) is about to step out of the shadow of other renewable technologies and establish itself as the third biggest player in the sustainable power generation industry.
CSP does not compete against other renewable energies; it is an additional one that is now economically viable.
1 May 2009 | Concerned consumers and parents staged a demonstration outside Sydney's Intercontinental Hotel. The Food Regulation Ministerial Council was meeting there to discuss a promised review of food labelling this year. We were there to make sure labelling of genetically engineered food was on the table.
