No Fluff Climate Stuff

Hello you wonderful climate active human :)

You are always welcome to join us or any of our member groups in whatever way you want.
Or if you want us to help with your climate activities, please contact us.

Next TCC Meeting March 30th

7:00 - 7:30 pm Guest Speaker Lennart Bach from UTas on Marine CO2 removal

7:30 - 8:30pm General Meeting [on zoom]

Tas Climate Change Act Update!

You made a difference!

Thank you to all the wonderful people who took the time to engage with the recent Independent Review of the Tas Climate Change Act.

Your views have been heard: as seen in the Review Recommendations (page 9) and the Consultation Report.

We are thrilled to see the recommendations include an Independent Climate Change Body and a Separate Adaptation Process and many others.

Congratulations to all who spoke up. Celebrate: it’s important to own this win!

We look forward to continuing to work with all you wonderful folk to make sure that the government implements these recommendations to give us all a safer future and real emissions reduction. Stay tuned for updates!

You can continue to take Action with us by: writing to your MP (find contact details here) and asking them to support implementing the recommendations for the independent body and for the separate adaptation plan.

#FixTheAct

Stuff We Love

Renewable energy revolution: renewables supplied Australia with more power than fossil fuels in the last quarter of 2025 (for the first time).
A gesture that warmed the hearts of Tasmanians has inspired Giving Land Back. For the first time ever, lutruwita/Tasmania’s Aboriginal Community is asking for help to return land that was never ceded.
Imagine it's 2050 and we got it right. What might a person say? Meet Louise [short video]
A toolbox to address the growing climate disinformation threat that undermines democracy, national security, and the clean energy transition: from the Australian Security Leader's Climate Group [key points] [report]
What can you do with with batteries the size of more than 200 Tesla EVs? Electric locomotives.

Stuff You Can Do

Its not too late to help #SCRAPTHEDAP: stop the State Government from giving more power to developers and less to local councils and communities (keep sending those emails + scroll to end of link above to see other actions)
Sign the petition against logging in the Dial Ranges, which both community & Council opposes + enjoy the Day for the Dial hike/ride
Join the Communities for Climate Compensation and support your local council to call on the federal government to create a Climate Compensation Fund so the cost of climate damage doesn’t keep falling on ratepayers.
Sign the petition: everyday people are paying the price for climate change, while big coal, oil and gas corporations profit. It's time to make big polluters pay + report
Yes, beer drinkers pay more tax than gas companies. Watch this great ad here and sign the petition. Short analysis report here.
Download the palawa kani placenames app: find Aboriginal place names in Lutruwita/Tasmania, hear the pronunciation and learn a brief history. iOS| Android | Desktop
Conversation Guides. Want to talk about climate change? Here's some handy facts and cheat sheets from the Climate Council to help out. Power prices and clean energy | Climate change & bushfire risk

Stuff Coming Up

28 March Liffey River and Oura Oura Reserves Guided Visit
28 March Eastside Repair Cafe
28 March No War Rally Grassroots Action Network Tas
29 March Day for the Dial Ride/hike to support the creation of a reserve
31 March Women's Climate Conversations 2026, Women's Climate Congress
4 April Day of Wonder 2026 supporting Landcare
11 & 12 April North West Ecofest
12 April Kingston Repair Cafe
13 April On country walk + talk Circular Head Aboriginal Corp, Live Well Tas
14 April How to Connect with Nature for Better Health
14 April Climate Forum: Imagining a Cleaner, Safer Tas , UTas Enviro Soc
14 April Stop the DAP Bill passing Pop-Up Action Parliament House
18 April Biodiversity Collage workshop Huonville
18 April Launceston Repair Cafe
17 April Dark Sky Week 2026 in the Huon Valley
21 April Book Launch Hobart Why We Garden
23 April Exploring the edges: What our research is revealing about uncharted climate futures, NESP Climate Systems

Stuff That Makes Us Think

Four plausible climate scenarios to help Tassie orgs with risks and opportunities, mapped by the UTas Policy In My Backyard (PIMBY) group
Wide ranging Netflix doco Plastic detox led by one of the world’s leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists, Dr Shanna Swan.
After thousands of hours speaking to Australians from every conceivable background the conclusion was: Polarisation is a Myth.
Australia’s political crossroads, global trends, and whether independents can provide a credible, community driven alternative. Climate Action Week Sydney Webinar with former PM Malcolm Turnbull, Climate 200 co-convenor Kate Hook and Co.
Protecting Australians by accelerating the renewable energy rollout is now a security priority. Open letter from the Australian Security Leader's Climate Group
Australian climate change adaptation insights: SA case studies [ YouTube Webinar recording]

Stuff loved by TCC members

Book

The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything

This is the best book I've ever found which so thoroughly explains how life, geology and the atmosphere are so exquisitely reliant on each other and how the earth strives to find equilibrium through the carbon cycle. It's a sweeping, extraordinarily well written and insightful book.

Reading App

The StoryGraph is an app I use to track my reading and It’s an independent alternative to Goodreads (which is owned by Amazon) - Melissa

An app that helps you track your reading and choose your next book based on your mood and your favorite topics and themes.

Podcast + Substack

Nate Hagens, of The Great Simplification, has put out a summary of how we got to where we are now overstepping planetary boundaries - Des

Nate explores the systems science, with topics spanning human behavior, monetary/economic systems, energy, ecology, geopolitics and the environment.

YouTuber

The New Enlightenment with Ashley covers a lot of great topics that are relevant when it comes to thinking about our predicament - Lauchlin

Ashley explores paradigm shifts in economics, governance and knowledge systems. This channel envisions hope for a rebirth of systems on the other side of the 2020's chaos.

Stuff you know about that we don't

Have you heard about something we could include? A book? A film? A podcast? .....or just want to send us a cheerio? We'd love to hear from you. Send us a line.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of lutruwita, the Palawa, their ongoing custodianship of the land, community, sea and waters. We pay our deepest respect to Palawa elders, past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

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