Walk Against Warming, Sunday 15th August...

Earlier in the week I promised I’d talk about some ways to make your vote count in this election. This might look like an event announcement, but I think it’s a great way to give your vote some extra oomph. This year’s Walk Against Warming is actually pretty quick after the last one that happened back in December. It’s going to be held on Sunday 15th August, the Sunday before the election, and...

Perth Green Drinks: Tuesday 6pm, 3rd August...

If you’re in Perth and free for an hour or so tomorrow night, I hope I’ll be seeing you at the Central TAFE East Perth campus for the Green Drinks. We start at 6pm and I’ve heard we’re expecting a big crowd: that might be because Wilma’s lined up 3 politicians to talk to us about their environmental policies! I’m looking forward to grilling Senator Rachel Siewert from the Australian...

Sustainable living events in Perth...

Just a quick note to let you know about a couple of sustainable living events coming up in Perth. Perth Sustainable Living Festival - this started last week and will continue for another two weeks at City Farm and the Northbridge Piazza. There’s talks and stalls during the day, and movies (one fiction movie for kids and one documentary for adults) on the Saturday nights. Perth Sun Fair - Sunday 28th of March on...

Best of Blog Action Day 09...

With over 12,000 blog posts in the last 24 hours all on the topic of climate change, I certainly haven’t read them all. But here’s my favourites from Blog Action Day so far: Two things you can do to stop climate change - from the evergreen Treehugger blog. Fear and love - is what makes Tricia at Little Eco Footprints make changes in her life to prevent climate change. Tour Google’s green campus - 6...

World Environment Day 2009...

Tomorrow is World Environment Day - it’s held every year on the 5th of June by the United Nations Environment Programme. This year’s theme is “Your Planet Needs You-UNite to Combat Climate Change”, focusing on how every nation in the world has to do their bit to stop climate change. There’s a few events on around Australia, and you can see if there’s one near you on the Events Listings...

What’s your compost doing right now?...

There’s a special day or week to raise awareness for everything, isn’t there? Earth Day, Administrative Assistants Day, Ride to Work Day, Space Week. Well, gardeners and greenies rejoice - there’s an International Compost Awareness Week too! I first heard about it from Tricia at Little Eco Footprints. My compost bin The idea is to get more people to understand how awesome compost is. And they’re...

Earth Day...

Globe East, NASA's Visible Earth Earth Day is celebrated on April 22nd every year. This year is it’s 39th anniversary, although it’s never taken much of a hold in Australia. Unlike Earth Hour, it’s not a very focused campaign - people just do environmental stuff locally, with whatever theme they like. Because of this, it’s got quite a few detractors. They say that having one day a year to make...

Blog Action Day 08 roundup...

Thanks to everyone who commented on my Blog Action Day post - thanks to you I’ll be making an increased donation to Oxfam! There were quite a few good Blog Action Day posts that also deal with the environment in relation to poverty. Two that I quite liked were: Four Big Thinkers’ Ideas on Going Green, Ending Poverty at Treehugger - lots of links to more articles; and The Nature Conservancy’s report on...

Bike to Work Day, October 15th...

This Wednesday is Ride to Work Day - the idea is to promote cycling to work as a healthy and more eco-friendly alternative to driving. You can register as an individual or workplace group. The website has all sorts of resources for making it a fun event that will show people how easy it can be to ride to work. They suggest workplace breakfasts, giving prizes for ‘least-likely rider’ or ‘best-dressed...

Walk to Work Day, this Friday...

This Friday is Walk To Work Day around Australia. The Pedestrian Council wants you to walk all or part of the way to work, or take a walk in your lunch break. You can register as an individual or a business at their website. My office is organising a group walk, with a healthy lunch afterwards. I often catch a train and a bus to work, but was going to skip the bus section, which would be about a 15 minute walk. However,...