Ian and Jenni Coldwell returned to what had been their farm nearly a decade earlier to find that the parts they loved the most were still intact and the piece that pleased them the most was for sale - they bought what had been their former home and set about the create "Farm3618"

The result of their intent and toil is clearly apparent as Farm3618 is populated by an array of beautiful native trees and a variety of equally beautiful shrubs and other plants, interspersed with meditative labyrinths.

Rich farmland surrounds Farm3618 and its island of forest directed at creating a place of peace contrasts with the busyness of the nearby farms that are understandably pressured by commercial needs, as is Farm3618, but with peace as a priority.

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Talking about striking from school for climate action

Inspired by Swedish student Greta Thunberg, Castlemaine's Milou Albrecht gathered some friends and made the idea of students striking for climate action a reality Australia.

Milou,who has talked via Skype with Greta, has been working with the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and can be seen smiling on the homepage of the schoolstrike4climateaction.

She has taken the message for climate action to local members of parliament, local councilors and the leader of the opposition, Bill Shorten.

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Feeling Lou's passion for the environment

Lou Costa and her partner Les live with their new child, Ellis, on a bush block just out of Rushworth in Victoria at the King Billy Retreat.

Lou had been a passionate advocate of the environment since being a small girl and that dedication to nature has never left her and has really played a key role in fashioning her life and is no more evident than what you see when visiting her home - Lou and Les "walk their talk".

She has made those personal concerns about the environment public being a long time member and past president of the Goulburn Valley Environment Group (GVEG), and when roadside trees near her home were threatened by VicRoads works she reacted immediately and the result saw a change in VicRoads' plans, the preservation of many old trees and the creation of the Rushworth Action Group for the Environment (RAGE).

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Charlie Prell is the New South Wales organizer for Australian Wind Alliance and works from his Crookwell property in NSW.

He is a fourth generation family farmer whose farm sits high on the Great Dividing Range north of Canberra from where he advocates for an inclusive "benefit sharing" model for wind farm developments rather than the pure development model most frequently used throughout Australia.

Beyond being an enthusiast for wind energy, Charlie is also active in the climate change discussion, as one is intimately entangled with the other is the co-chair of Farmers for Climate Action.

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Making wind farms make sense

The politiciization of climate change

Some years ago a sage said it was important that we not politicize climate change, well, that's happened and humanity's efforts to slow the advance of catastrophic changes to earth's atmosphere have vanished into an impenetrable swamp of reports, consultations, inquiries, and uncertainty and doubt driven by richly-backed think tanks leaving the lay-person, those who vote for the decision makers unsure of what they should do.

Australia stands divided with the country's two major political parties clearly on different ideological paths and using rhetoric often found to be wanting to promote arguments and positions that will ultimately not resolve the dilemma.

This interview by Radio National breakfast host, Fran Kelly with shadow climate change and energy minister Mark Butler, illustrates that confidence and the sound of certainty is really just bluster that leaves to the real difficultly untouched.

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Tssmania's 'new reality' - liightning storms, bushfires, less rain and increasing temperatures