Post of the Day
Peter FitzSimons
Which brings us to the case of the woman who remained a virgin, despite being married three times. Her first husband was too young. Her second husband was too old. And her third husband an Australian government climate change spokesman who just sat on the end of the bed and said how great everything was going to be in the future.
Today’s Celebration
Labor Day – Kazakhstan
Battle of Boquerón Day – Paraguay
Pchum Ben Festival – Cambodia
National Blood Donor Day – Kyrgyzstan
Gold Star Mother’s Day – USA
Rosh Hashanah – Judaism
Navaratri – Hinduism
Social Justice Sunday – Catholicism
National Police Remembrance Day
Climate Change
Pacific Island nations urge action on climate change at UN
Pacific leaders want to remind the world what’s at stake for the most vulnerable – low lying nations – if nothing is done to combat climate change.
Thousands hit the streets in Madrid to demand climate action
Large crowds of young climate activists gathered in Spain’s capital as part of the latest ‘Global Climate Strike’.
UK ‘needs billions a year’ to meet 2050 climate targets
Report estimates up to £20bn a year in investment needed to build net-zero carbon economy
Greta Thunberg and friends file legal complaint to the UN
You know Greta Thunberg. Now meet the 15 other children who have joined her fight at the UN.
Is Greta stressing out our kids? [$]
Annette Sharp
Greta Thunberg’s emotional public comments spurred plenty of angry debate among adults last week but an internationally renowned clinical psychiatrist is confident our kids are coping very well with the teen’s apocalyptic predictions.
Joanne McCarthy
Donald Trump is an obese 73-year-old American male who, statistically speaking, should be dead in a bit more than a decade.
Genius gamechanger has thrown down the gauntlet
Claire Kimball
Greta Thunberg is refusing play by the ”communication” rules – and she can’t be ignored.
Healthy planet a legacy of hope
Age editorial
‘What then would be the legacy for our children?’
How to calm your kid’s climate change fears [$]
Judith Locke
Given most scientists believe the climate crisis is real, our energy is best spent preventing it, rather than worrying about the alarm it might produce in young generations who will bear the brunt of it.
National
Not a moment to waste in fight against plastic pollution
Josh Wilson
The Prime Minister is wrong when he says his government is acting on plastic pollution.
Wake up and smell the climate change socialism [$]
Peta Credlin
If we learnt one thing from the UN last week it’s that the Left hide their globalist agenda behind the guise of saving the planet. Green activists care more about socialism than the environment.
Victoria
Owners of warehouses left holding SKM waste ask who will help them
Warehouse owners left with thousands of tonnes of waste from collapsed recycler SKM that no-one wants are asking: what do we do with this mess?
We could soon be showering with recycled water [$]
Recycled and storm water could be used for everything but drinking throughout Victoria in less than a decade, under an ambitious plan to make the state a leader in reclaiming water.
New South Wales
From brick pit to public park: New green space opens in Homebush
A new 2.5 hectare park at Powells Creek has opened today, transforming an unused corridor in Sydney’s west into a new recreation and green space for the local community.
Michael Mobbs: I’m leaving the city to prep for the apocalypse
The man who wrote the book on living off-grid in the city plans to retreat to a rural bolthole, saying eco-friendly progress has not kept pace with the speed of climate collapse
‘It’s heartbreaking’: a coastal community watches its beach wash away
Manmade sea walls and the effects of climate change eating away at Stockton beach, and locals are rallying to save it
‘Children at risk’: Sydney’s turf wars over sporting grounds
A turf war has erupted over plans to turn another oval on Sydney’s north shore into a synthetic pitch, which residents and cricketers argue will drive them from the ground.
ACT
Take a forest bathing walk at Sunday’s Tidbinbilla reserve open day
Forest bathing, despite the name, does not involve getting wet.
Queensland
Meet the farmers with the plan to create the nation’s largest urban farm network
A new wave of urban farms across south-east Queensland are inviting city dwellers to get back to their roots, literally, in a bid to green the concrete jungle, shore up food supply and strengthen local community.
Welcome to Lady Elliot: the postcard-sized island brought back from the brink
When miners left Lady Elliot Island, on the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef, all that was left was a herd of imported goats. But now, thanks to a bit of ingenuity (and a scrap-eating giant called OSCA), the pristine cay is thriving once more.
As SEQ’s population grows, per capita public transport usage falls
South-east Queenslanders are making fewer trips by public transport and returning to their cars as the region’s population grows and new suburbs appear on Brisbane’s outer fringes.
South Australia
Students say adults have not learnt childhood lessons in sharing Murray-Darling water
South Australian school students are urging adults and national leaders to share the water better in the Murray-Darling River system.
Kimba to vote on nuclear dump proposal [$]
A ballot among the Kimba community on the Eyre Peninsula will begin next week as the local council seeks to gauge support for the construction of a nuclear waste dump.
Tasmania
How the introduction of predators rapidly changed an island
Until 2012, Maria Island’s animal inhabitants were living without any major predators. But when devils were introduced they had to adapt or die.
Sustainability
Happily, we can beat ‘environmental melancholia’
Nicola Philp
There are myriad ways we can all come to the planetary party, as well as saving money and most likely making new friends along the way.
Lessons for a destabilising planet: insights from the 2009 South Pacific earthquake-tsunami disaster
Dale Dominey-Howes
Just before 7am on September 29, 2009, a magnitude 8 earthquake struck the sea floor in the central South Pacific, about 190kms south of Samoa. It was exactly the sort of earthquake – in fact, it was two almost simultaneous quakes – that create devastating tsunami.
Nature Conservation
Oil spill blights Brazil’s golden beaches
University student and environmental activist filmed a video of a turtle covered in oil while collecting bottles and trash in northern Brazil.
Precious escargot: the mission to return tiny snails to Pacific islands
British zoologists part of global project to release 15,000 endangered creatures vital to French Polynesia
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