No Fluff Climate Stuff

TCC Guest Speaker & Meeting: 25 May

7:00 - 7:30 pm Guest Speaker Adam Mostogl, former Young Australian of the Year, talking about Unleash Lutriwita + SDGs for Island peoples and a changing climate.

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

One-off Special Guest Speakers Session: 9 June @ 7pm via zoom

Martin Hensher from UTas, Research on Health and Climate Change
Amelia (Millie) Anthony from Tipping Point, Communities for Climate Compensation / Make Polluters Pay national campaign Launch [+ info]
Amy Gordon, Climate Justice Coalition campaign launch [+ info]

Energy Security + #FixTheAct

We're delighted; MP Peter George's amended Energy Security motion on April 15 was backed. This calls for a move away from fossil fuels, a roadmap for fuel security + a low or zero fossil fuel future in Tas.

Mr George’s original motion included an independent, expert body to drive the transition and legislated targets for transport electrification (sadly this was watered down). To get these enacted in the future, we need to keep pressure on.

Show your local MPs some love; thank them backing this motion and ask them to support implementation of the Fix the Act Review recommendations.

Remember, our MPs won't know what we think unless we tell them (and some of them have told us they haven't heard about climate change concerns from the community). Call or write (contact details here) and let's clear that up.

#FixTheAct

Stuff We Love

People all over the country joined the national campaign calling on the Government to tax giant corporations appropriately (even nurses pay more tax than oil and gas companies) and here's us (or scroll to the end)
For the first time, clean energy has met all of the world’s growth in electricity demand. Savour the key points on the brilliant Fix The News.
Circular Economy Huon has created a Sustainable Consumer Guide highlighting places with sustainable practices and locally grown / made stuff. And that's just one of the great things they're up to.

Stuff You Can Do

Its not too late to help #SCRAPTHEDAP. If community voices didn't have a say in local planning decisions, Salamanca Place would not exist today. Email your MP asking them to scrap this Bill via this website or Join the Action at Parliament House (26 May, register here).
Add your name: the iconic Pencil Pine and King Billy Pine communities need your help to get recognition for protection and to support recovery efforts. Beautiful video here.
Volunteer: Ever wanted an excuse to say your plans involve a raptor facility or a wildlife hospital? Tas Wildlife Hospital opportunity.
Support both ecosystem recovery and local jobs by emailing (easy form here) to encourage continued funding of the Urchin Control Program in Tas!
Sign the letter calling for the Premier to implement a healthy Huon Estuary and D’Entrecasteaux Channel Program.
Petition to sign (for those living in the Hobart Municipality). Join locals calling on Hobart Council to pass a Polluter Pays motion for communities to stay safe and thrive. Sign here.
Love the dark. Help reduce light pollution at home, work or school. Dark Sky Tas has some inspiration.
Pitch in to save the future of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. "Every young person who gets involved learns that they have the power to create change."
Write to your MP and get 1% for nature. Currently 50 times more money is spent harming nature than helping it, but the solution is just 1% for nature.

Stuff Coming Up

17 May TCC Launc. Chat with Leigh Ewbank, campaigner & activist
17 May ACF Coffee Chat (S)
18 May Weekly GRANT meet ups (S)
20 May Weekly Wilderness Wednesdays, Wilderness Soc (S)
20 May Build It Together: how co-ops can reshape your [everything] (S)
21 May The Great Australian Bight: Where drilling was stopped, but the threat remains, Wilderness Soc (O)
21 May Meeting the Moment: How to Win on Climate Webinar
21 May When Fungi Found Us Cultivating Biodiversity Conservation (S)
23 May Eastside Repair Cafe (S)
25 May Heat & Disability Symposium (O)
26 May Scrap The DAP (S)
27 May + National Reconciliation Week 2026 Breakfast (Statewide)
2 June What Remains: The wilderness we must protect, Wilderness Soc (O)
2 June I Eat the Stars | Sarah Wilson in Conversation (S)
3 June Cataract Gorge Cultural Walk (N)
7 June Rescue to Release Workshop Raptor Refuge (S)
7 June Kingston Repair Cafe (S)
12 - 21 June Art for Takayna (S)
20 June Launceston Repair Cafe
21 June Bonorong Wildlife Rescue Training (O)
25 June Planting for World Environment Day Conservation Volunteers Aus (S)
27 June Rocking for Robbins Island Music Festival (N-W)
27 June Kinda forward festival: Small Steps to Sustainability (N)

S/N/O = South, North, online

Stuff Loved by TCC Folk

Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity by Sandrine Dixson-Declève

5 Stars! Absolutely essential reading for everyone, I must insist you read this immediately. Practical, ready to implement policies that will work, from the Club of Rome. Every politician ought to be compelled to read this! - Melissa

Planet Critical Podcast

This is one of the handful of podcasts I listen to each week to keep up with leading thinkers on the global predicament. - Sharee

Includes interviews with scientists, artists, politicians and change makers on why the world is in crisis and what needs to be done.

Stuff That's Better with Buddies

While we're waiting for a serious nation-building all electric future (a great read from Saul Griffiths), Yes2Renewables has just released a toolkit for growing renewables locally, for both communities and individuals.
This is us (image below) spending time together and others all over Australia. #taxgasnotbeer

TCC folk and friends in a pub smiling and holding signs of #taxgasnotbeer

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.

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