The fellow behind Zero Carbon Tatura, Terry Court was one of three keynote speakers at last weekend's (August 28) Tatura Transition Towns annual film festival.

Plans had been made to stage the festival in the town's Victory Hall, but as the Covid-19 crisis intervened, it was necessary to stage the festival online.

Mr Court, who is something of a dynamo, and has pulled together a group of volunteers in the hope of guiding the small town toward a zero-carbon emissions position by 2030.

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Today's Quick News takes us to Brazil via a story published in the Melbourne Age and written by Diane Jeantet that discusses the gradual retreat in the Brazilian share of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, which has left water covering just one-quarter the area it did 30 years ago.

Diane's story: "The country with the most fresh water on the planet has lost 15 per cent of it" is based on data that only went through to 2020 – before this year’s drought that is Brazil’s worst in nine decades.

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Today's Quick News takes us to Brazil via a story published in the Melbourne Age and written by Diane Jeantet that discusses the gradual retreat in the Brazilian share of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, which has left water covering just one-quarter the area it did 30 years ago.

Diane's story: "The country with the most fresh water on the planet has lost 15 per cent of it" is based on data that only went through to 2020 – before this year’s drought that is Brazil’s worst in nine decades.

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The climate crisis is being felt all around the world and today's "Quick news" takes you on that world tour.

First, we have briefing note 16 from the ARC Centre:  "What is left in the global carbon budget?;

Then from The Conversation: "What Greenland’s record-breaking rain means for the planet";

Now, from The Guardian: "What will our eco-friendly homes of the future look like?";

More from The Conversation: "How students can use storytelling to bring the dangers of climate change to life";

And from the BBC: "Madagascar on the brink of climate change-induced famine";

Inside Climate News tell us: "Europe Seeks Solutions as it Grapples With Catastrophic Wildfires";

From The Washington Post: "Many measures of Earth’s health are at worst levels on record, NOAA finds";

Ian Jack writes for The Guardian and says: "There are two sides to Glasgow. Cop26 will show only one of them";

Climate Action discusses: "American Perceptions on Electric Mobility and Climate Change";

Climate Homes News takes us deep into Afghanistan: "As the Taliban seizes control of Afghanistan, coal is a key source of revenue";

And we are still with Climate Home News and still in Afghanistan: "Afghanistan at risk of hunger amid drought and Taliban takeover";

Finally, The Guardian tells us about a new "environmental cannon" from publisher Penguin Classics: "Penguin Classics launches ‘new canon’ of environmental literature".

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The climate crisis is being felt all around the world and today's "Quick news" takes you on that world tour.

First, we have briefing note 16 from the ARC Centre:  "What is left in the global carbon budget?;

Then from The Conversation: "What Greenland’s record-breaking rain means for the planet";

Now, from The Guardian: "What will our eco-friendly homes of the future look like?";

More from The Conversation: "How students can use storytelling to bring the dangers of climate change to life";

And from the BBC: "Madagascar on the brink of climate change-induced famine";

Inside Climate News tell us: "Europe Seeks Solutions as it Grapples With Catastrophic Wildfires";

From The Washington Post: "Many measures of Earth’s health are at worst levels on record, NOAA finds";

Ian Jack writes for The Guardian and says: "There are two sides to Glasgow. Cop26 will show only one of them";

Climate Action discusses: "American Perceptions on Electric Mobility and Climate Change";

Climate Homes News takes us deep into Afghanistan: "As the Taliban seizes control of Afghanistan, coal is a key source of revenue";

And we are still with Climate Home News and still in Afghanistan: "Afghanistan at risk of hunger amid drought and Taliban takeover";

Finally, The Guardian tells us about a new "environmental cannon" from publisher Penguin Classics: "Penguin Classics launches ‘new canon’ of environmental literature".

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The national convenor of Mass Mailout for Climate, Robert Patterson, talks on Climate Conversations about his group's goal of helping Zali Steggall achieve her aim of seeing a legitimate debate in parliament about the climate crisis.

Robert said he first began to understand the realities of climate change some 40 years ago, but now after all those years of waiting, and five Prime Ministers later, nothing has happened and Australia has plunged to the bottom of the world's nations that are acting on the climate crisis.

He understands the fact that people are busy, preoccupied with surviving in our modern lives, but hopes the growing majority of people concerned about climate change will check out the group's website, follow its advice on how to write a letter to a parliamentarian and post if off to Canberra.

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The national convenor of Mass Mailout for Climate, Robert Patterson, talks on Climate Conversations about his group's goal of helping Zali Steggall achieve her aim of seeing a legitimate debate in parliament about the climate crisis.

Robert said he first began to understand the realities of climate change some 40 years ago, but now after all those years of waiting, and five Prime Ministers later, nothing has happened and Australia has plunged to the bottom of the world's nations that are acting on the climate crisis.

He understands the fact that people are busy, preoccupied with surviving in our modern lives, but hopes the growing majority of people concerned about climate change will check out the group's website, follow its advice on how to write a letter to a parliamentarian and post if off to Canberra.

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Australia's Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister, Angus Taylor (pictured), has not been shy in letting people know about his dislike for renewable energy and you can read about his "success" in delaying its implementation in a story from RenewEconomy: "After three years, Taylor is finally succeeding in his promise to stop wind and solar";

Another story from RenewEconomy tells us about a Scottish wind farm: "World’s largest floating wind farm completed in Scotland";

From the ABC: "Bushfire survivors win landmark climate change case against NSW EPA";

From The Guardian: "Santos sued for ‘clean fuel’ claims and net-zero by 2040 target despite plans for fossil fuel expansion";

From The New York Times: "Nuclear Power Can Save the World";

The Post Carbon Institute: "Questions to Richard Heinberg from a 15-Year-Old Student";

The Guardian on unexpected rain in Greenland: "Rain falls on peak of Greenland ice cap for first time on record".

From Climate Connections: "Here’s what makes a new Amazon carbon study so unnerving";

The Melbourne Age: "Santos hit with climate lawsuit over ‘net zero’ claims".

And the Melbourne Age says: "Global carbon tax could turbocharge ‘green shorting’, ethical funds say".

 

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Australia's Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister, Angus Taylor (pictured), has not been shy in letting people know about his dislike for renewable energy and you can read about his "success" in delaying its implementation in a story from RenewEconomy: "After three years, Taylor is finally succeeding in his promise to stop wind and solar";

Another story from RenewEconomy tells us about a Scottish wind farm: "World’s largest floating wind farm completed in Scotland";

From the ABC: "Bushfire survivors win landmark climate change case against NSW EPA";

From The Guardian: "Santos sued for ‘clean fuel’ claims and net-zero by 2040 target despite plans for fossil fuel expansion";

From The New York Times: "Nuclear Power Can Save the World";

The Post Carbon Institute: "Questions to Richard Heinberg from a 15-Year-Old Student";

The Guardian on unexpected rain in Greenland: "Rain falls on peak of Greenland ice cap for first time on record".

From Climate Connections: "Here’s what makes a new Amazon carbon study so unnerving";

The Melbourne Age: "Santos hit with climate lawsuit over ‘net zero’ claims".

And the Melbourne Age says: "Global carbon tax could turbocharge ‘green shorting’, ethical funds say".

 

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Just three stories that populate our many media services today - check these out, then go and check out the rest.

First, we go to The Atlantic:  "How the U.S. Could Slash Climate Pollution by 2030";

Second, The Guardian: "Is democracy getting in the way of saving the planet?";

And third, Future Crunch: "Collapse, Renewal and the Rope of History".

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