Survey of residents in Batman – Renewable Energy

Survey of residents in Batman who say YES to renewable energy! Darebin CAN worked with Yarra CAN during May  to survey 500 residents of Clifton Hill and North Fitzroy to hear their views on renewable energy. The survey was part of the nationwide 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY campaign, which organised for groups such as DCAN to [...]

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Can Renewables power the world – YES they can! Read on….

Renewables can power the world UPDATE: the full report is now available – click here! Giles Parkinson from Climate Spectator May 12, 2011 The IPCC report on the potential of renewable energy sources to supply nearly 80 per cent of the world’s energy requirements would not have made comfortable reading for the globe’s fossil fuel [...]

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Tell ANZ to clean up their act

Tell ANZ to  clean up their act Friday April 1 at Preston Tell ANZ to  clean up their act Friday April 1 at Preston Join us this Friday – April Fools day at 12 noon at ANZ bank 457 High St  Preston (near Murray Rd). Join us this Friday – April Fools day at 12 [...]

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Climate Q & A video now available

Darebin Climate Action Now is pleased to publish links to video of presentations by five local candidates in the 2010 Victorian State election on climate change. How did they stack up? You decide! Each presenter was allotted five minutes (though some took more!), with a Q & A following the presentations. The event was expertly [...]

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Ferguson’s coal a climate message for Batman voters

Following the previous weekend’s successful solar rally on the steps of Parliament, on Friday Darebin Climate Action Now followed up with its own local events to highlight the climate and energy policies of Labor and the Coalition in the local Batman seat of energy and resources minister, Martin Ferguson, as part of its “F” for [...]

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It’s “F” as Ferguson fails climate Q and A

Tonight’s Q & A , with its likely focus on climate change policy, will hopefully challenge the Gillard Government’s do-nothing evasion of leadership with the planned citizens’ assembly to further delay action by looking at climate science and the “case for action” through the eyes of 150 randomly selected people – as if the science [...]

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Door knocking in Fairfield – shut down Hazelwood power station

The DCAN members met and had a great day out door knocking in the local neighborhood an Saturday 10th July, meeting the locals and pressing the case for more action on climate change, and in particular the need to shut down Australia’s and indeed the industrialised world’s dirtiest coal fired power station. In total, about [...]

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100% Renewable Community Campaign

Sunday 2 May will see photo-shoots take place across Darebin to support the 100% Renewable Community Campaign for Clean Energy. Come along and be part of the crowd to help send a clear message to our politicians about clean energy. 1.00pm Alphington Railway Station – Rowe St side 1.30pm Fairfield Railway Station – Wingrove St [...]

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The Tranisiton Decade

The Transition Decade – launch this SUNDAY 14th FEB!! All DCAN members, supporters and their families and friends are invited to the national launch of the Transition Decade at the Melbourne Town Hall, Swanston Walk, Melbourne, on Sunday 14th February from 12noon to 3 pm. The Transition Decade is a decade-long, community-wide engagement campaign which [...]

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Below 350 campaign – photos and video!

Here’s some photos and video taken of our cupcakes and tea in the Darebin Parklands on Sat 24 Oct. Thankfully, the weather was fantastic, and a great day was held by all, including many passersby who “stopped” in for one of the free vegan chocolate cupcakes. So long as we had more voices for the [...]

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