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our-environment.jpgThis 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.

 

Latest information

  • ACF Federal Election 2010 scorecard

    July 29th, 2010

    ACF recently launched its Federal Election 2010 scorecard in an attempt to rate each major party's commitment to the environment.

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  • Put a price on it

    January 20th, 2010

    You pull into the petrol station to fill up, buy some chocolate and todays newspaper. On all three you will pay far more than they cost to produce and distribute. The price that you pay covers the cost of a whole range of products and services that go into making the stuff, including the materials to make the product, the labour involved in making the product, and services required in getting the product to you. Anything missed?

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  • UK young suffering from "nature starvation"

    January 12th, 2010

    Young people in Britain are increasingly missing out on the stress-relieving benefits of spending time in nature, according to Europe's largest wildlife conservation charity.

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  • We can afford to go green

    December 14th, 2009

    Big businesses love to pull out the line about how going green will cost businesses loads of money and how if they did go green the businesses would have no choice but to pass on the costs to the consumers. But this report prepared exclusively for New Scientist shows that we can radically cut carbon emissions without huge costs to the consumer.

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  • And the winner is... DARWIN!

    June 15th, 2010

    The Australian Conservation Foundation's Sustainable Cities Index provides a snapshot of comparative performance in each of Australia’s 20 largest cities, with the aim of encouraging healthy competition, stimulating discussion and suggesting new ways of thinking about our cities.

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  • Hubble catches planet being devoured by its star

    May 26th, 2010

    The Hubble space telescope has discovered a planet in our galaxy in the process of being devoured by the star that it orbits, according to a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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Snapshot

this week's carbon emissions:
2.132m tonnes

water restrictions:
Stage 3

current uv levels:
Low

water storage levels:
35.8% full

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