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Friends of the Earth (Melbourne)

Peter Campbell — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:34:43 GMT

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'''Friends of the Earth (Melbourne)''' believes that social and environmental issues cannot be separated from each other. As a result, FoE is a social and environmental justice organisation. It seeks to work towards a sustainable and equitable future and seeks to work in a way that empowers individuals and communities. This means that FoE operates on a collective basis using consensus for decision-making.

FoE campaigns from the local to global level: it is part of the FoE Australia network, which currently includes 12 groups around the country. FoE Australia is, in turn, the national member of FoE International, which is now active in 77 countries.

Collectively, the FoE network is the largest environmental federation in the world. It has around 5,000 local branches, including those in Australia. Member groups at the national level are autonomous, leading to a great diversity within the network. FoE International is active on many of the key global environmental and social issues.

==External links==
* [http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/ Friends of the Earth (Melbourne)]

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Greenleap Strategic Institute

Peter Campbell — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:29:01 GMT

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The '''Greenleap Strategic Institute''' (GSI) is a non-profit sustainability think-tank dedicated to driving urgent action to resolve the sustainability emergency. The Institute was founded in 2005 in response to the rapidly growing awareness of the seriousness of the climate change issue.

The most significant project of the Institute so far has been its involvement in co-authoring the book [[Climate Code Red]].

[[Philip Sutton]] (link to bio-note) is the Convenor and Strategy Director of GSI

==External links==
* [http://www.green-innovations.asn.au/ Greenleap Strategic Institute]

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Victorian safe climate bill

Peter Campbell — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:19:57 GMT

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A Safe Climate Bill for Victoria

Community climate action group [[Lighter Footprints]] are involved in a collaborative project with [[Greenleap Strategic Institute]] and [[Friends of the Earth (Melbourne)]] to develop a Safe Climate Bill for Victoria.

The project aims to develop a draft Bill that, if implemented, would establish Victoria’s commitment to climate protection and create a framework to meet Victoria’s share of the global obligation to reduce carbon emissions to address its historical carbon debt and provide for a safe climate future.

This draft Bill will be guided by an expert advisory committee and developed through collaboration between the above parties and other climate action groups.

It is hoped it will provide a contrasting and alternative piece of legislation to the draft Climate Change Bill currently being developed by the Victorian Government.

For more information about this project contact: '''Fiona Armstrong''', Safe Climate Bill project coordinator: fiona-armstrong AT bigpond.com, or phone 0438 900 005.

==Documents==
* {{pdf|Purpose and Principles of a Draft Climate Bill for Victoria 251109.pdf|Purpose and Principles of a Draft Climate Bill for Victoria}}
* {{pdf|Discussion Paper Safe Climate Bill final 251109.pdf|Discussion Paper Safe Climate Bill final}}

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'''BlueGen gas-to-electricity units available soon for Australian homes.'''

Australian homeowners will shortly be able to produce their own electricity on-site, from natural gas, reducing their home’s carbon footprint by five times as much as is possible from a solar PV system.

BlueGen – a gas-to-electricity generation unit about the size of a small dishwasher which contains a stack of ceramic fuel cells – is currently being trialled at a sustainable home in the Melbourne suburb of Epping.

It will be available to Australian consumers from April, via green retailer Neco. BlueGen units have already been sold in Germany, The Netherlands and Japan.

In the home (or other buildings) the BlueGen unit connects to the existing gas inlet and the hot water system. Air and gas is fed into the unit and a chemical reaction takes place, producing both electricity and heat.

Over the course of a year each BlueGen unit can produce about 17,000 kilowatt hours of electricity – more than twice the power needed for an average Australian home. Surplus electricity can be sold back to the power grid.

The heat by-product is enough to produce 200 litres of hot water each day.

BlueGen’s production of both electricity and heat gives it an efficiency of 85%, making it the most efficient power generation system of its kind in the world. Conversely, electricity derived from brown coal is about 25% efficient (75% of the energy produced is lost as heat at the power station or in the transmission and distribution of the electricity).

The BlueGen technology uses 95 per cent less water than coal-fired power stations and when deployed in volume can generate electricity 40 per cent cheaper than the current retail price.

The average Australian home using BlueGen could save more than $1,000 off its annual energy bill, as well as reducing its carbon footprint by up to 18 tonnes per year.

Australia’s fuel cell technology – creating low-emission baseload power from natural gas and fuel cells – came out of CSIRO in the early 1990s. Ceramic Fuel Cells has invested more than $250 million to develop it further.

In Australia, carbon dioxide emissions increased by 12 per cent between 1990 and 2006. Australia produces 23 tonnes of carbon emissions per person per year – four times the world average. Summer peak demand for electricity is increasing by 5 per cent a year.

Currently, coal-fired power stations produce up to 95% of some Australian states' electricity requirements. If BlueGen units were to replace just 7% of Victoria's electricity from brown coal – for example – the state would achieve the Federal Government's target of a 5% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions well before 2020.

Australia’s current reliance on coal is proving expensive. In March last year a report prepared for the Energy Networks Association estimated that the upgrading of ageing transmission and distribution networks to cope with increased peak demand for air-conditioners will cost Australia $283 million per year for 20 years – a total cost of $5.6 billion. This cost will be passed on to consumers via electricity bills.

Extraordinarily, 10 per cent of this centralised network capacity is built to cater for about three days per year – on very hot days when air conditioners are in high demand.

Progressive governments around the world are realising that the future of electricity production does not lie in a centralised system based on brown coal but an extensive network of smaller, distributed low emission energy generators, such as fuel cells.

An analogy is the transition of the computer industry from mainframe computers many years ago to laptops, the internet and mobile phones today.

Already progressive foreign governments are promoting the take-up of distributed fuel cell technology.

In the UK such systems attract lower taxes and accelerated tax depreciation. The UK Government announced this week that a feed-in tariff (a premium rate paid for electricity fed back into the electricity grid from designated electricity generation sources) would apply from 1 April 2010 for small low-emission electricity generators, including fuel cells running on natural gas.

Germans receive a capital subsidy of up to 3,300 euros for a 2 kilowatt unit, as well as a feed-in tariff. In Japan Osaka Gas has already identified 1.1 million households suitable for fuel cell technology in the Kansai region.

The Australian coalition announced this week in its climate policy – Direct Action on the Environment and Climate Change – that it would consider rebates for ceramic fuel cells.

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For more information: Richard Allen, Oxygen Financial Public Relations, 03. 9915 6341

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Climate science involves the study of factors relating to and determining climate and how it changes.

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Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere are rising due to emissions associated with human activities. Increased levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are causing an increase in global average temperatures, which in turn contributes to climate change.

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Carbon dioxide ppm levels and targets

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'''CO2Now''' is Earth’s CO2 home page to make it easy for people to find and see the world’s latest data for atmospheric carbon dioxide.

It is an independent website that republishes unfiltered, scientific data for atmospheric CO2.

It is also the producer of CO2Now widgets that are used on hundreds of websites in dozens of countries (with content in more than a dozen languages) to make atmospheric CO2 levels visible far and wide.

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	* [[Climate Emergency Network]], network of climate action groups in Victoria		* [[Climate Emergency Network]], network of climate action groups in Victoria
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	* [http://www.c4healesville.org.au/ C4 Healesville]		* [http://www.c4healesville.org.au/ C4 Healesville]

Climate Action Centre

Peter Campbell — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:13:09 GMT

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The '''Climate Action Centre''' is an open access resource centre for community climate action groups and climate activists in Victoria.

The centre aims to provide timely information, resources and ideas for action to the public and the climate movement.

Centre Coordinator: Damien Lawson

==External links==
* [http://www.climateactioncentre.org/ Climate Action Centre]

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A '''solar array''' is a number of photovoltaic solar panels combined into a system to produce electricity.

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Balwyn North Primary School solar power

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The '''Balwyn North Primary School''' in Melbourne, Australia has become one of the first schools in Australia to install a solar power system under a joint state and federal government initiative. The school has installed a solar array with:
* 30 solar panels
* 4.2kW power output
* comprehensive monitoring system which publishes data on a website

Students at the school are about to use the information for the solar and weather monitoring stations in mats, science and other subjects to see how weather affects bot the schools's consumption of energy and the solar systems ability to produce power.

The school has also installed a [[FutureSwitch]] that reduces energy waste by turning off appliances remotely and reducing standby power leakage which could result in a 30% decrease in the school's energy bills.

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Doncaster house

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The Doncaster house has a "X"kw solar array installed in January 2011.

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