Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Fed Tv: Home Sustainability Assessors - Green Advice to Your Door 090721



Welcome back superstars! We hope that you are all well & smiling. The Project Bluestar team have been on a multitude of tasks in their quest to advance sustainable living, July was celebrated & education month with Earth Sanctuary hosting it's very own Cert 4 Training & Assessment classes as well as Australia's newest green living initiative called Home Sustainability Assessment courses. What on Earth's this you ask, well, it's about getting trained sustainability assessors into homes to inform & motivate house owners to take positive action on reducing their CO2 footprint. The great thing is that the Australian government is now assisting people by paying the interest on 000 dollar loans which technically (to the the house holder) makes it an interest free loan. The idea is to make sustainability & subsequent CO2 reduction more achievable. We certainly hope it help but as we all know there are serious challenges confronting the world which will take a hell of a lot more than an interest free loan to reduce human impact & contribution to the extreme weather phenomenon sweeping the Earth. Real change must come from everyone, individuals, family, businesses, Industry & government, everyone. Will we have to wait for extreme weather & the associated disruption to farming & liveelihoods before real action occurs? That may be the case, but plenty of champions around this planet are working overtime to avert such grave consequences. Our aim is motivate & inform people to take ...

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Dirty Banks financing Australian Coal



Banks spend huge amounts of money and time trying to sell themselves as socially responsible and environmentally sustainable companies. But if they continue heavily investing in polluting power, it doesn't matter how many trees they plant, envelopes they recycle or green lightbulbs they install -- the damage caused by their coal investments is already too great.