Learning abiojut how caring for our land is also about caring for oursleves

The Knitting Nannas want to ensure our fossil suels stay in the ground.

A group of Sydney-based women, which are now apart of a near national movement known as the "Knitting Nannas" is working hard to ensure our fossil fuels, gas,oil and coal, stay in the ground.

The Knitting Nannas largely focus their efforts on coal seam gas (CSG) and were founded in June 2012 in response to exploration for unconventionally mined gas in prime agricultural land in the Northern Rivers areas in New South Wales.

Here Chris Rumble talks with Climate Conversations about this dedicated band of knitting nannas,

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Talking psyschology and climafe change with Susie Burke

Castlemaine psychologist Susie Burke has a keen interest in climate change and was one of the session leaders at an October conference in Beechworth staged by Farmers for Climate Action.

Susie, who is affiliated with Australian Psychology, played a key role in the establishment of the Melbourne-based Psychologists for a Safe Climate and advocates action rather than despair for both individuals and groups when confronted with the complications of climate change.

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Academics, activistists and some "ferals" from the grassroots movement gathered in the Japanese Room at the University of Melbourne's School of Design for the recent launch of the new book, "Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary" by Samuel Alexander and Brendan Gleeson.

MC for the launch was the deputy director of the Melbourne Sustaible Society Institute, Dr Sangeetha Chandra-Shekeran, who introduced both Dr Alexander and Professor Gleeson (who is the director of the MSSI) and the Australian environmental designer, ecological educator, writer and co-originator of the permaculture concept, David Holmgren, who actually launched the book.

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Launching Degrowth in the Suburbs for academics, activists and policy makers.

A discussion by Geraldine Doogue and John Edwards on Radio National about the acts of former Australian Prime Minister, John Curtin, caused thoughts about combating climate change by approaching the looming apocalyptic difficulty by society, on a world-wide basis, adopting a war-like footing. 

It's an approach some like, and others dislike, with those supportive of such a position arguing that humanity's survival rests entirely with it taking such proactive position, while many are uncomfortable with the use of militaristic terms.

 Most of those concerned about the advance of climate change and our apparent inability to slow or stop it, lay the responsibility squarely at the feet of prevailing neo-liberal economy that puts no value on nature, considering it an externality.

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Considering climate change and combatting it

Students strike to protest Federal Government inaction on climate change