Upcoming events

Next Trade Unionists Climate Action Network Sydney meeting:

When: Thursday September 3rd, 6:30pm.

Where: Australian Services Union office

All welcome.

Community Picket August 13th

As the CPRS goes to the vote, join a community picket to demand:

  • Scrap the handouts for polluters
  • Scrap the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS)
  • Renewables now!

Thursday August 13th
12:00pm
Kevin Rudd’s office
70 Phillip Street, Sydney

Called by the Sydney Uni Enviro Collective

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The Big Melt: Climate Justice Speaking Tour

Thursday August 13 2009 6:30pm

Mitchell Theatre, Sydney Mechanics School of Arts

Address:280 Pitt Street Sydney

Find out about climate change in the ‘roof of the world’ and what it means for Australia and Asia.

Hear Pemba Dorje Sherpa, holder of the world record for the fastest climb of Mount Everest, talk about his experience of global warming in the Himalayas. He is joined by environmental lawyer and activist Prakash Sharma, Pro Public Nepal.

Global warming is already having a big impact on Mount Everest and the Himalayas. Glaciers are melting creating floods and danger for the local people. But the big melt also means a big dry as these ‘water towers’ of Asia lose their capacity to provide water to the giant rivers in the summer months. Eventually rivers like the Ganges in India and the Yellow River in China will lose their dry season flow and the billion people in these river basins will lose their water security.

In the lead up to Copenhagen, the tour will also examine how a global climate action can be developed that will prevent the big melt in the Himalayas and halt global warming.

The tour will coincide with the release of a new Friends of the Earth report: High Stakes – Climate change, the Himalayas, Asia and Australia.

Sydney

Thursday August 13
6.30 – 8.00 PM
Mitchell Theatre
Sydney Mechanics School of Arts
280 Pitt Street
Sydney

Wollongong
Friday August 14
6.30 – 8.00 PM
University of Wollongong
Venue TBC : check website for details

The tour is hosted by Friends of the Earth Australia, with the support of The Intrepid Foundation, the Uniting Church in Australia – Synod of Victoria & Tasmania and Australian Ethical.

For more information contact: Damien Lawson 03 9419 8700 or www.thebigmelt.org

RSVP (not essential but it helps us know who is coming): info@thebigmelt.org

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ALSO Coming up next week:

“Will a zero emissions economy save jobs? Solving the Economic and climate crises.”

Graham Brown – ex coal miner speaks out

Sydney Uni – Carslaw Lecture Theatre Rm 350

1pm, Tuesday August 11. Phone 0434 540 903 for more info.

Part of a national tour organised by Resistance.

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