Fresh green links

Copenhagen was in the news lots this week, although there didn’t seem to be much real action. The most interesting thing to me is that the smaller nations are not quietly sitting on the sidelines the way other leaders would like them to. With Tuvalu leading the way, they’re actively making demands and staging walkouts and giving it their best effort to convince the world that something serious needs to be done. Oh, and calling Kevin Rudd a liar, which seems reasonable if you compare his soaring rhetoric to his actual deeds.

George Monbiot has an excellent piece on his blog about Copenhagen – it’s not about carbon dioxide, This Is About Us. The human race is at the crossroads of history, and there’s a battle on for who will choose our next direction: the expanders, or the restrainers?

The ACT, South Australia and the Northern Territory have all announced ambitious plans to move to renewables, cut waste and generally be more eco-friendly.

The Walk Against Warming website has photos and videos of all the walks around Australia. A big thumbs up to the people in Darwin who braved some horrible-looking rainy, windy weather, and to all the people with me at Perth looking for shade in the 40 degree heat!

Picturing climate change – a photo essay of places around the world affected by climate change already, and the people who are part of the fossil fuel industries. This is really moving stuff, I highly recommend you take a look.