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Our Environment
This stuff is all about our environment. It’s about the important roles of plants, animals, insects, oceans and our climate. We investigate how we need a healthy environment for healthy human lives. It’s about how we impact our environment in our daily lives and how we create our future every day.
This is important stuff to understand. A few years ago who knew? Well a few scientists and environmentalists were onto it but we didn’t pay much attention. Maybe it was all the beards, long hair, white coats and complicated language? Today, with just about every living system in decline we face a challenge to protect our environment. We must actively stop ourselves from destroying our very own life support system.
Cool Melbourne is all about engagement, understanding and bringing us all together on the challenge we face. It's important to understand what our environment is and what we risk with 'business as usual.’ Some may think that we are just fine, but, like a credit card after Christmas, there will come a time when we need to pay up. Unfortunately for us nature doesn’t negotiate, debate or accept part payment she simply responds.
Forget about 'Save the Planet' or 'Save the Earth'. The planet will be fine: it’s humanity that is in trouble. Think about it as saving our economy, our jobs, our families, our friends and our future. Think about saving yourself. If it sounds a little dramatic, that’s because it is. We need to lift.
We can continue to destroy or we can learn to change. The choice is ours.
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Ecological Debt
August 3rd, 2009
All business and banking people will tell you that the last thing that you want to do in business or life is eat into your savings; you must live off the interest and hand onto your savings at all costs. So why is it that we are chewing through our Earth’s resources (savings) each year?
Climate Proposal Puts Practicality Ahead of Sacrifice
January 19th, 2012
Burning fewer fossil fuels is the most obvious way to counteract the greenhouse effect, and the notion has always had a wonderfully virtuous political appeal — as long as it’s being done by someone else.
The fight against climate change is down to us – the 99%
October 13th, 2011
If there is one thing I know, it's that the 1% loves a crisis. When people are panicked and desperate, that is the ideal time to push through their wishlist of pro-corporate policies.
Is being green and gadget happy a contradiction?
October 10th, 2011
Energy-conscious home owners may religiously switch appliances off at the plug, insulate their houses and turn off lights in empty rooms, but our obsession with gadgets means energy bills and emissions are still rising, according to a report on UK home energy use.
Children want to learn about the environment, survey finds
September 29th, 2011
We're always pleased to read articles that are pro sustainability, particularly within the education sector. But it seems this survey is rather flawed! How can one separate science and history from environmental issues? We believe issues of sustainability and the environment should be incorporated into existing 'traditional' subjects.
Australia increasingly uncomfortable with animal cruelty
September 27th, 2011
I may be wrong, but recent indicators suggest animal suffering is going out of fashion. I have been tracking the ebb and flow of the animal protection movement as a first-hand observer since the late 1990s. I have also conducted historical research into the contemporary animal protection movement which emerged in the 1970s; and the early-modern animal protection movement of the Victorian era.
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