Visitors to our website might have noticed fewer posts this past year or so. This is because many of us have been focused on the Adani Carmichael coal mine. If the mine proceeds it would be Australia’s single biggest contributor to climate change and the equivalent of adding a new country with emissions 1.5 times…
By David Johnston, October 7 2017 PROTESTERS thousands of kilometres away were still able to send a strong message opposing plans for a mega coal mine in central Queensland. LOUD AND CLEAR: Stop Adani protesters were out in force on the Lincoln Causeway on Saturday. More than 400 people showed their opposition to the coal…
Do you want Westpac to lend money to Adani to build their massive Carmichael coal mine in Queensland? They’ve refused to rule out a loan and ignored our hundreds of emails, calls and letters. What better way to make our message loud and clear than being outside their branches all over Australia? It’s started already…
Saturday 29 October, 1.30-3.30pm, Sustainable Activity Centre, Wodonga. Talking about climate change can sometimes feel more taboo than sex, religion and politics. If you’d like help manoeuvring those tricky moments, come along to our climate conversations workshop. It’s facilitated by experienced psychologists from Melbourne’s Psychology for a Safe Climate. Please RSVP by Wednesday 26th October…
You have an opportunity to influence Australia’s biggest climate polluter – AGL. Join us for a photo shoot at 12.00pm on Tuesday 13 September 2016 next to Sumsion Gardens (intersection of Osburn and Bank Streets) holding a sign that says “Albury-Wodonga calls on AGL to go fossil free”. AGL is a major Australian electricity provider…
Did you know that big polluters have handed $3.7 million to the major parties since the last election? And that our Government will give them $7.7 billion in subsidies this year? We must stop the flow of money that is propping up the fossil fuel industry. At 12.30pm on Friday 20 May WATCH will join…
Well done to the 300+ locals who attended the Wodonga March in March rally last Sunday. Climate change, the environment and asylum seekers featured prominently. A ‘Statement of No Confidence’ in the Liberal National Party Coalition Government was approved during the gathering and tendered in Parliament on 17 March. This document asserted that many decisions…
This rally is part of the national March in March movement to express dissatisfaction with the Abbott Government. March in March has been organised by grass-roots groups using primarily social media. It involves a number of rallies and marches across Australia between 15-17 March, including those in Melbourne, Canberra, Mildura, Warrnambool and Castlemaine. If you…
Community environment groups across the region are celebrating the news that Energetica Resources Pty Ltd has withdrawn its application for a coal seam gas (CSG) licence in south western NSW (i.e. the region to the north and north west of Corowa). “We are very pleased to hear that Energetica has withdrawn their application,” said Delwyn…
Anna Rose, co-founder and Chair of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition is visiting Albury for a community forum to promote her new book Madlands: A Journey to Change the Mind of a Climate Sceptic, documenting her experiences with retired Liberal Party senator Nick Minchin. – Location: Albury Masonic Centre, Gulpha Street, Albury. Date: Wednesday 13th…
Wodonga & Albury Toward Climate Health (WATCH) 