5 shires in SE NSW have now adopted a 50/50 by 2020 target. This target, driven by strong community support, has had bipartisan government support at local, state and federal levels. We are the first region in Australia to set a challenging emissions reduction target, with Mike Kelly setting an aspirational 50/50 by 2020 target for the electorate of Eden-Monaro. That puts our region into a position of leadership.I
Clean Energy For Eternity was established in 2006, and since then we have been working hard to establish community solutions to climate change.
We have been raising awareness with our human signs and landscape sculptures. We have been changing attitudes with LifeSaving Energy and our Big Swim series. We are embracing economic opportunity with our 50/50 by 2020 targets, and we are looking at bigger picture stuff with our community owned power stations.
Everything we have ever done is on this web site. Every picture we have ever taken is in the gallery section, there is comment from politicians, scientic information about the science, and technical information about solutions.
This is the CEFE blueprint for turning a threat into an opportunity.
In 2010 the Jindabyne Big and Little Swims will again be held in conjunction with the Jindabyne Flowing Festival and Dragon Boat challenge. However, this time the swims will be held on the Saturday, the day before the dragon boats race.
It is the year 2020, and Eden-Monaro looks quite different to what it was in 2008.
There are some obvious big differences. There is a wind farm on the Monaro, quietly producing more than half of our regions electricity needs. With this wind farm alone, we h
At a debate on the science of climate change in Merimbula on 19/1/10, it was clear that a number of sceptics were present. Fair enough. The science is complicated and there is genuine uncertainty about how much warming we can expect with rising atmospheric CO2. Opinions are polarised.
It is a good thing to question the science and debate the topic. It is foolhardy to be paralysed by the uncertainty of climate change.
There have been many thousands of climate science articles published in journals like "Science", "New Scientist", and "Nature" over the last 10 years. I have a challenge for those who feel that climate change is a hoax.
I challenge anyone to find three peer reviewed articles that cast genuine doubt on the science of climate change. To make it a contest, those three articles must come from either "Science", "New Scientist" or "Nature". To give you a fighting chance, those three articles can be published anytime this century.
With such community debate about the science of climate change, surely this will be an easy task. Good luck. Matthew Nott
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