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Rod Quantock in "The people we should eat first and how to cook them"
CEN Strategy for 2010
The CEN Strategy for 2010 has been completed by the working group of the CENFC and is available here.
The Safe Climate Australia framework document, available here, provides crucial background to the CEN Strategy.
You will see that some pages of the CEN Strategy are marked according to whether the contents have been endorsed by the membershp at previous general meetings, endorsed by the CENFC or are still 'draft' as they are not yet endorsed by either the CENFC or membership. Some pages are marked as context only and therefore don't need endorsement.
The next CEN General Meeting on Saturday 27 February at the Climate Action Centre (behind Trades Hall) from 1 to 5pm will provide an opportunity for discussion and/or endorsement. We will also have a chance to consider how to take our strategy to the Canberra Summit.
Australia's Climate Action Summit - 2010
Saturday 13 March - Monday 15 March
Australian National University, Canberra
Last year saw the first ever Australia wide Climate Action Summit. Hundreds of people came from hundreds of Climate Action Groups from around Australia to talk, discuss and share ideas and plan for a return to a safe climate.
In the year of a federal election after Copenhagen how do we move forward?
The second Australian Climate Action Summit will provide much needed space for the climate movement to take a deep breath ……evaluate our wins and losses of 2009, reassess the political landscape and discuss next steps in the fight for climate justice!
Climate Action Groups, concerned citizens and organisations will come together as a diverse and powerful movement. The Summit will build on last year by facilitating collaboration on key national campaigns and adopting campaign priorities for 2010.
Over three days, people will take part in workshops, discussion panels, decision making and issues sessions to improve the capacity, community networks and strategic direction of the grassroots climate action movement.
Participants will learn important skills for campaigning, lobbying, engaging the media and community, building your local group, taking direct action and more!
Our governments are not providing real climate solutions. Whether it is carbon trading or Copenhagen we deserve better. It’s now up to us. A growing community movement in Australia is building people power for immediate action on climate change.
Together, we can make a global transition to a sustainable future.
Be part of the movement! Come to the summit!
Register Now and find out more information at www.climatesummit.org.au
Registration will cost $10-15 per person day for unwaged individuals and $25-30 per person per day for waged individuals. Registrations are due by Friday 26th February.
Registration payments are voluntary but are needed to help cover the costs of organising the summit. Groups also have the option to donate to help support the event - see the website for more details.
Phone Ellen Roberts 0408 583 694 or Moira Williams 0420 504 411 for more information.
Response to Climate Deniers
Keith Burrows is a Physics teacher and text book author who is the founding member of 'Science Teachers for Climate Awareness' - a group encouraging science teachers to get out into the community and talk about the science of climate change.
Keith has published two recent papers, one responding to deniers such as the Climate Sceptics Party (Leon Ashby) and another outlining the basic science of climate change. These and other presentations on climate change and dealing with deniers are also available at http://www.vicphysics.org/index.php?id=145.
