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Action on pollution leads to more jobs across Australia
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
A new national report shows if governments act now to shift Australia from a pollution dependent economy to a cleaner economy it will create 3.7 million new jobs across the country by 2030. Creating Jobs - Cutting Pollution: the roadmap for a cleaner, stronger economy, released today by the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), is based on the most extensive economic modelling to date of costs and benefits across all Australian regions of taking strong action to cut greenhouse pollution by 25 per cent.
Video of Tim Flannery Talk
Filmed in Darwin, May 2010 (with questions from Climate Action Darwin) 
ETS is dead, where to now?
Friday, 30 April 2010
No point mourning the premature death of ETS at the hands of the Rudd Government. As First Dog pointed out in his cartoon, its fate was doomed a long time before Wednesday’s announcement. The pressing question climate campaigners are asking themselves is: where do we go now that politics have failed us miserably?
The 100% Renewable Community Campaign has started the ball rolling by calling on all concerned citizens and disappointed voters to demonstrate their support for a carbon neutral future this Sunday 2nd May.
CAD's 1st Anniversary and First Blog
April 2010
Just over a year ago, we at Climate Action Darwin submitted our first grant application to get this website up and running. Last week we submitted our second grant application to develop some ideas we have for community education. So it would seem a good time to take stock of where we are and where we’re headed.
When we first planned this website, we imagined a place where we could offer information and that would invite discussion. It would, we hoped, begin to build a community. It would inform, affirm and inspire. The discussion, we thought, would be vibrant and informed, with threads on renewable energy, on active democracy and new ways of living.
National Climate Summit Maps Out Election Plan
Monday, 15 March 2010
Three hundred climate advocates from across the country have concluded their national climate summit in Canberra vowing to put climate on the election agenda.
Delegates to the summit represented a range of climate groups from every state and territory, and joined with officials from union, religious, and community organisations at Australian National University.
Solar Power All Through The Night
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
‘Baseload’ solar power; once a distant dream, is now a reality. While solar electricity was once limited to when the sun was shining, solar thermal energy can now operate 24 hours a day, even at night, with an ingenious and cheap storage method utilising molten salt.
“There are plants in Spain operating with energy storage right now, providing electricity all night long” Matthew Wright, Beyond Zero Emissions Executive Director said.
“Most Australians are not aware of this technology, even though it has the capacity to revolutionise the way we produce electricity and eliminate global warming pollution from coal”.
