Queensland Climate Movement

Disgruntled elves today took time from their Christmas duties to leave a special message for Kevin Rudd at his Morningside office in Brisbane. The elves are angry about Rudd’s 5% care factor and 95% coal factor in dealing with Australia’s climate change challenges.

[Read more →]

This is a reproduction of an article published on December 13th in the Melbourne Age. Although it was not one of the workshops at the Climate Summit, I found it to be so inspiring and hopeful that felt it was something important to share amongst the Queensland Climate Movement. You can view the original article here.

[Read more →]

This workshop considered the Queensland Water Commission’s recent Target 140 campaign as an exemplar of a social marketing approach to reducing consumption, in this case water. Participants distilled the lessons from the Target 140 campaign for a similar campaign in Queensland to reduce energy demand and consumption.

[Read more →]

The following is an open letter written by Graeme Taylor of bestfutures.org which was circulated at the Summit. Grame Taylor is the author of Evolution’s Edge: The Coming Collapse and Transformation of Our World. The letter is reproduced here courtesy of Graeme for distribution.

[Read more →]

On the evaluation forms for the summit, people were asked to suggest what influenced their decision to come to the summit. Three key themes emerged from this, highlighting the role of personal connections and relationships in sustaining the Queensland Climate Movement.

[Read more →]