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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.
Articles
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?
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.
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.
Belief In Climate Change Hinges On Worldview
February 25th, 2010
When it comes to climate change, some look at the facts presented and see a coming catastrophe, others see a hoax. This difference in interpretation, social scientists say, has more to do with each individual's existing outlook than the facts.
Transition to another world
January 18th, 2010
Chances are you have already heard the terms ‘Transition Town’, ‘Transition Network’, ‘Transition Movement’ or ‘Transition Initiative’ floating around, creeping into conversations and news stories.
Time Magazine's Heroes of the Environment 2009
January 14th, 2010
It's easy to think that all the hard decisions about our environment are in the hands of our political leaders alone. Not true. There are heaps of 'ordinary' people who are doing extraordinary things.
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