I joined The Big Switch community. They have a convenient form letter that you can send to your electorate's candidates, asking them to fill in the site's survey to find out where they stand on climate change issues. I sent one to my Liberal and Labor candidates a few days ago. Within half an hour I had a response from the Labor guy, saying that ( Read more... )

Who's up for a walk?

Date: Sunday 11th November
Perth Venue: Fremantle Esplanade Park
Time: 1:00pm
Travel: Free travel for passengers on the Transperth train network between 11am and 5pm on Sunday 11th November 2007.

I am so fatigued that just sitting in my chair makes my brain fuzzy. I've been finding walking around jobs to do. And ripping up paper jobs. May as well be on lj.

mr_booboo just sent me George Bush on Global Warming parody!!

So election day is 24th November.

Walk Against Warming is two Sundays before that so *counts back* that'd put it, let's see..

on REMEMBRANCE DAY

I can never really get very involved with activist groups. I'm always worried that no matter how reasonable and purely motivated they appear that behind all that there are crazy people, or greedy people or just plain misguided. For example, according to angriest the boss of Greenpeace gets paid millions of dollars a year. And also apparently Arnold ( Read more... )

mr_booboo accompanied me to the screening of Climate of HopeSpeaker introduces the film - 'The government are looking towards using nuclear power because it's clean energy with zero greenhouse emissions ( Read more... )

Dragonfly's got the station on 94.5. It seems like every ad break they're playing the PREDATORS ARE STALKING YOUR CHILDREN OVER THE INTERNET AND ONLY WE CAN PROTECT YOU ads.

Yep, nothing says election time like the government playing on your fear for your children to distract you from actual issues.

Speaking of which, walkagainstwarming Anyone ( Read more... )

I chose the excerpt about computers because I had been leaving both my laptop and my desktop in sleep mode most of the time, and I hardly even use the desktop anymore. Dragonfly's been reminding me to turn off the power at the wall for YEARS, but somehow in my mind computers just automatically got an exemption. So I was good last night and turned ( Read more... )

I read/watch scientists presenting us with facts about dying coral reefs, species going extinct, extreme weather events etc, and assuring us earnestly that if only we reduce our greenhouse emissions by x amount the planet will be able to recover and I look at them and think, not even you believe that anymore, but you have to keep on trying ( Read more... )