Repower Health was launched in Melbourne last night (October 26) and some 60 people gathered at the central city Fad Gallery for the event.

Repower Health is an initiative of Healthy Futures and aims to engage as many health services, clinics and hospitals as possible, encouraging them all to embrace and use some form of safe and renewable energy, primarily solar.

The National Director of Repower Health, Alex Bhathal was on of several speakers at the launch.

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Talking about the need for a climate emergency

Farmers and others gather in Beechworth to consider climate risk in agriculture.

Some 230 people were at Beechworth's George Kerford Hotel for the "Managing Climate Risk in Agriculture"  conference staged by the Farmers for Climate Acton (FCA) late in October. An impressive array of speakers covered most every aspect of farming in a changing climate from physical risks through to the emotional and mental health of farmers.

Most of the presentations would have been sufficient has they been the entire substance of the conference to leave the audience in deep thought, but it was that of MinterEllison corporate lawyer and climate change expert specializing in climate risk, Sarah Barker, who set many to thinking and appeared to empower people.

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CEDAMIA is a group of volunteers mostly from South Australia and Victoria who busy themselves impressing the idea of a "climate emergency " upon Local and State Governements. One of  the leaders of that group is Margaret Hender from Adelaide. Climate Conversations talked with Margaret about the group and explored some of the work it is doing, especially its "No More Bad Investments" program that is focused on what state and territory governments can do to avoid any investments that contribute to the worsening of the world's climate.

CEDAMIA, spelt out is Climate Emergency Declaration and Mobilization in Action.

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Richard Denniss and Fergus Green discuss targeting fossil fuels

The chief economist from The Australia Institute, Dr Richard Denniss,  and a researcher from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Fergus Green, were in the Malaysian Theatre at the University of Melbourne for a forum entirtled, " Targeting fossil fuels: The political and economics case"

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A candid discussion about heat-waves from an Australain authority

Heat-waves are now a better and more understood dynamic thanks to the work of Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick from the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Sarah discusses not only climate change and heat-waves, but the personal challenges of having children (she already has one daughter and another is one the way) when she knows her children will be living in circumstances quite unlike those we enjoy today - when her eldest daughter is Sarah's age (she's in her early 30s) , she knows the global temperatures will be at least one or two degrees above what they are now.

Sarah loves her work and her honesty and candidness is refreshing.

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The joy and convenience of shop top living