Fresh green links

I’ve got a bit of a theme this week! All over the news are hints that the campaign to get a better Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) from the government is starting…

Gavin on Today Tonight – Gavin from The Greening of Gavin blog was on Today Tonight in Victoria, explaining how his expensive solar panels will be used to allow an electricity company to remain below their emissions cap without making any reductions themselves. He’s got the video of it on YouTube and posted on his website for you to see. Good work, Gavin!

An idea whose time never came – Richard Denniss, one of the experts shown in Gavin’s video, writes a longer explanation of what’s wrong with the CPRS and what the alternatives are (huge changes to the scheme, or starting fresh with a new one).

Wong & Turnbull inspired by Heath Robinson – John Hepburn at Crikey’s Rooted blog explains how politicians are relying on unneccessarily complicated mechanisms for their policies on reducing emissions. He compares them to Heath Robinson’s illustrations of silly contraptions that are way more complex than they need to be for the task.

So what can you do to help get changes to this very silly and irresponsible policy? Take a look at this:

Permit Me to Make a Difference – GetUp is running a campaign for changes to the CPRS to allow reductions made by households to be counted fairly in the scheme. They’re running a full-page ad in The Australian to inform people of the problem, and there’s a petition you can sign, letters you can send, and factsheets about the issue. Definitely check it out and make your voice heard on the topic.