Clean Energy Roadshow

Posted on 3 Mar 2012 by | 1 Comment

Stories from the Clean Energy Frontline

The vast majority of Australians support a move to 100% clean energy.But some think we’re not ready yet.

The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC) is hitting the road, sharing real stories from the clean energy frontline which prove that we’re 100% ready to start making the switch.

Hear real people tell their stories from the clean energy frontline: workers, farmers, small businesses, big businesses, inventors, investors and community leaders are seeing big benefits for themselves, their communities and Australia from the work that’s going on around the country.

Registrations are now open for clean energy forums in Wollongong, Queanbeyan and Wagga Wagga.  

For details of times and places, see the Nature Conservation Council website.


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Posted in Energy, Energy generation and distribution, Inform & discuss, Renewable energy

Fracking on TV

Posted on 27 Feb 2012 by | Comments Off
Tuesday 28 February, 8pm on ABC1, Foreign Correspondent reports on fracking for gas in the USA.

http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2012/s3438114.htm?

As the fracking question gathers momentum locally – are we glimpsing an Australian future?

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CANWin AGM and Film Afternoon 4 March

Posted on 25 Feb 2012 by | Leave a comment

Sunday 4 March 2012, 1.30 – 5pm
Board Room, BDCU, 411 Bong Bong Street, Bowral.

Programme

1.30pm Registration opens
2.00pm Meeting starts
2.45pm Meeting ends; Light refreshments available
3.00pm Film and discussion.

Film: Design for Life: Permaculture — The Food Forest Story

This quietly inspiring film shows how Graham and Annemarie Brookman built their dream, transforming a bare paddock near Adelaide into a bountiful food forest, using renewable energy, appropriate technology and sustainable farming and living practices. They show that an ordinary family can grow its own food and create a productive and diverse landscape. The Food Forest is not just about sustainable gardening and farming. Energy wise projects at the farm include straw bale buildings, passive solar housing, solar hot water, and solar panels for electricity.

After the film there will be an opportunity to talk about it with a panel of experienced permaculture enthusiasts, including local identity Jill Cockram.

Film cost: Free to CANWin Members. Visitors welcome: $8
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Clean Energy: Everybody’s Doing It

Posted on 6 Feb 2012 by | 1 Comment

Stylised Sun radiating in 4 directionsCoal and oil fuels are dinosaurs that hold media and market attention because they’re huge. But while the dinosaurs rampage, all around them thousands of people are entering the new era: the age of clean, inexhaustible energy. In the words of grass-roots organisation 100% Renewable:

Right now Australia faces a choice: we can continue our dependence on fossil fuels, keep mining and burning coal, keep polluting our air and water. We can keep damaging our farmland and heath, be left behind the rest of the world on investment and face an uncertain future with an unstable climate. Or we can make the switch to 100% clean renewable energy, creating a safer, healthier happier future for all.

The excitement of this new era is palpable in the planning for 100% Renewable’s 2-day Big Solar Boot Camp at Port Hacking on the weekend 11-12 February 2012. The programme concentrates on community action: how to make the clean energy message heard above the ruckus of the dinosaurs.

We saw the urgent demand for renewable energy in Wingecarribee shire at CANWin’s Clean Energy workshop last year. Plans such as Zero Carbon Australia 2020 and Sustainable Energy Australia show the ways 100% clean energy can be achieved in less than 10 years.

Big Solar is about solar-powered electricity generators on the same scale as coal-fired power stations. Big solar is one of the technologies that is making coal-fired power redundant. CANWin, along with hundreds of other groups in the Climate Action and 100% Renewable networks, can force governments to learn that the coal-fired dinosaur’s day is done.

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Want to reduce your electricity bills?

Posted on 24 Jan 2012 by | 1 Comment

CANWin can help. We are offering a series of free workshops on ways to reduce your energy bills.

The workshops are part of the CSIRO Energymark program. They consist of eight sessions, held about two weeks apart.

You will receive your own copy of the CSIRO Home Energy Saving Handbook and build on it to:
Cover of CSIRO Home Energy Saving Handbook

  • Identify ways to reduce your energy consumption
  • Develop an action plan to save on power bills
  • Learn more about energy and climate change issues
  • Find and discuss how to lower our carbon footprint at home, at work and in our Highlands communities.

The groups will be small so that everyone can have their say with a minimum of pressure: local people talking about what matters to us in Wingecarribee.

Schedule and location will depend on what suits most participants.

Sign up now or ask for more information: just email Tim Edwards at email hidden; JavaScript is required

Check out the program at www.energymark.com.au

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