Rosie helps us understand youth and the climate crisis

School strike for Climate comes to Shepparton

Emily Minotti-Watson courageously stepped forward and brought the "School strike for Climate" to Shepparton in northern Victoria, Australia.

Her decision to initiate the event prompted almost immediate support from a tight-knit group of people who, working with Emily, quickly pulled together all the behind-the-scenes work such an undertaking demands.

More than 200 people gathered in Shepparton's Maude St Mall to hear several talk about the climate crisis and call upon governments at all levels to declare a climate crisis.

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Music helps us understand more about our warming world

Music is one of the best facilities to help people better understand the implications and complications of the rapidly unfolding climate crisis and there is no better group to do this than Music for a Warming World.

Australian, and in particular Victorians and more specifically Melbournites, and fortunate to have the group willing to travel to seemingly unlikely places at little cost, to help people better understand why they should think deeply about a warming world.

The band's leader, Simon Kerr, reflects a personal view that humanity is in deep trouble. 

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Living in echo chambers

This episode is a "vocal version" of a column I write for the Shepparton News, the Goulburn Valley's only daily newspaper.

The point is that although I might be living in an echo chamber with regard my interests in the climate crisis, a greater number of people; people who are hugely more influential also live in their echo chamber and it is the things they do and the decisions they make that are worsening the climate crisis.

Shepparton's La Trobe University Campus has weekly sessions that encourage community writing and it was there that lecturer, Dr Margaret Hickey, talked about the importance of stories.

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Bronwyn Chapman's excitement for the work of the Goulburn Broken Greenhouse Alliance is such that it is almost palpable; it feels like you could almost reach out an touch what she is feeling.

Bronwyn, the body's executive officer, directs it activities from her office at the Welsford St offices of the City of Greater Shepparton,  but as she has worked in Bendigo and lives in Wangaratta, she has a wonderful feel for the social dynamics of northern and north-east Victoria.

To better understand the perceptions of Victorians, Bronwyn turns to Sustainability Victoria who has found that the majority of Victorians are optimistic about making a positive difference on climate change and are willing to play their part.

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Executive officer Bronwyn Capman talks about the Goulburn Broken Greenhouse Alliance

Emily brings the "School strike for Climate' to Shepparton