Post-Christmas details...

Ok, I said I wasn’t going to post until after the New Year, but I wanted to report back on how greening my Christmas went. I didn’t have many decorations, but am working on some homemade ones for next year. I managed to make all my gift wrappings green: mostly I re-used gift bags, paper and ribbon, and bought a small amount of wrapping made from recycled paper. I completely forgot to write Christmas cards,...

Merry Christmas!...

Thanks to all my readers this year - I hope you all have a merry Christmas, with lots of time with the people you care about, and not too much stress. I’m taking this week off from posting, but will be back after that with my New Year’s Green Resolutions and much more.

Smart and Green tips for a grassroots campaign...

Yesterday Eloise Dortch told us about the Smart and Green campaign she started with Jasmine Horobin to try to prevent the price rise for renewable electricity from major WA supplier, Synergy. Today she’s sharing her tips on how to create a grassroots campaign, and how to deal with the media. Thanks to Eloise and Jasmine, you can get started campaigning on an environmental issue you care about. Jasmine and Eloise’s...

Smart and Green: interview with Eloise Dortch...

A while back I mentioned the Smart and Green campaign against the increased price of buying renewable electricity in WA from Synergy. The price had risen to 18.4 cents per kilowatt hour compared to only 13.94c/kwh for energy from coal and gas plants. Eloise Dortch and Jasmine Horobin organised a letter-writing campaign, arranged for Synergy’s customers to be interviewed in local papers, and met with Synergy to...

UN climate change conference in Bali...

I’m back! And it was lovely to come home to the news that Australia has (finally) ratified the Kyoto Protocol, and that the US was unsuccessful in trying to derail the negotiations in Bali. So what exactly was agreed to in Bali? to halve emissions by 2050 to negotiate a binding set of short-term targets in 2009 to help developing nations with reducing their emissions and adapting to changes The US was being difficult...

A little song for you...

While I’m away, here’s a post I prepared earlier! It’s a song from Tim Minchin - I hope it gets stuck in my head, to remind me to do the right thing. Canvas Bags, by Tim Minchin Maybe it’ll get stuck in your head too, before you head out for your Christmas shopping

Link roundup...

While I’m away, here’s a post I prepared earlier! These are some interesting links I came across in the last week before leaving for my holiday. Politics WorldChanging takes a look at what our new PM Kevin Rudd has promised on environmental issues, while Larvatus Prodeo looks at how Rudd has given us Two Cabinet Ministers for Climate Change. Handmade Christmas gifts In my green Christmas gifts article, I mentioned...