<<<<Activist Education>>>>

 

 

Some sources for education around key topics. There are heaps of links out there - here is a starter though...

We are in the process of gathering a kit of factsheets around all of these topics of Climate Change so we can all be really effective in talking in front of people.

 

Climate Change

Some readings on climate science and need for action...

 

 

Climate Code Red: http://www.climatecodered.net/ 

 

Technology

Clean technology topics and some fact sheets.

 

A Clean Energy Future for Australia - http://wwf.org.au/news/n67/

by Saddler H, Diesendorf M, Denniss R 2004

How to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Australia using existing technology

 

ACF renewable energy factsheets - http://www.acfonline.org.au/default.asp?section_id=36

                                                                 - http://www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res_Renewable.pdf

 

Seeking Sustainable Solutions to Climate Change - http://www.geocities.com/olympicdam/renewables.html 

by Joel Catchlove, Friends of the Earth Adelaide, April 2006  

 

 

SOLAR

 

Renewable Energy: Solar Electricity - www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res_Photovoltaics.pdf

 

 

WIND

 

Renewable Energy: Wind Power - http://www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res_Wind.pdf

 

 

Windforce - http://www.ewea.org/fileadmin/ewea_documents/documents/publications/reports/wf12-2005.pdf

 

 

Wind Farms: the facts and the fallacies - http://www.tai.org.au/documents/dp_fulltext/DP91.pdf

The Australia Institute

 

 

BIO-ENERGY

 

Renewable Energy: Bioenergy - http://www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res_Bioenergy.pdf

 

 

GEOSEQUESTRATION

 

Climate Action Network Australia (CANA) - http://www.cana.net.au/documents/CANA_CSLF_backgrounder_100904.pdf

Media release concerning geological-sequestration (aka “carbon-capture”) technologies

 

NUCLEAR

 

Uranium: Yellowcake Country - Australia's Uranium - http://www.foe.org.au/nc/Yellowcake.pdf

 

Nuclear: No solution to Climate Change - http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/documents.htm

 

The Energy Debate and the Nuclear "solution" -  www.energyscience.org.au

Is an independent non-governmental organisation established as a collaboration of concerned scientists, engineers and policy experts to present information to people on the issue of sustainable energy. energyscience.org.au combines rigorous research from leading academics and other experts to promote informed public debate and to foster dialogue between policy makers and their critics. 

 

Friends of the Earth (UK) - www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/resource/general_readers.html#nuclear_power

Tackling climate change without nuclear power: A report detailing how climate targets in the power sector can be met without replacing existing nuclear capacity  

 

Big Business

 

 

LETAG Fax – http://www.tai.org.au/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=36&func=fileinfo&id=230

Minutes of a secret meeting between the Australian Federal Government and big business on energy policy – Rio Tinto etc.  

 

 

The Dirty Dozen – Speech given by Clive Hamilton from The Australia Institute about the key players preventing government action on climate change in Australia http://www.tai.org.au/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=36&func=fileinfo&id=202

 

 

Degrees of Capture: Universities, the oil industry and climate change - http://risingtide.org.uk/pdfs/degrees_briefing.pdf

by Rising Tide. This briefing, compiled by a UK grassroots organisation, illuminates the sobering connections between Universities, the fossil-fuel industry and governments.

 

 

Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fuelling the Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster, by Ross Gelbspan.

 

This book reveals how politicians, big oil and coal, the media, and even activists have fuelled the climate crisis – and how we might still avert disaster. This excerpt traces what Gelbspan describes as a corrupt relationship between the Bush administration and the fossil-fuel industry.

 

 

The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, by Richard Heinberg

 

When Mike Bowlin, Chairman of ARCO, said in 1999 that "We've embarked on the beginning of the last days of the age of oil," he was voicing a truth that many others in the petroleum industry knew but dared not utter. Over the past few years, evidence has mounted that global oil production is nearing its historic peak. Oil has been the cheapest and most convenient energy resource ever discovered by humans. During the past two centuries, people in industrial nations accustomed themselves to a regime in which more fossil-fuel energy was available each year, and the global population grew quickly to take advantage of this energy windfall. Industrial nations also came to rely on an economic system built on the assumption that growth is normal and necessary, and that it can go on forever.