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| | style="color:#000"|South Australia mandates all new houses to have a '''[[Building energy efficiency standards|six-star energy efficiency rating]]''', announced 19 April 2010. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/19/2876113.htm link]. | | style="color:#000"|South Australia mandates all new houses to have a '''[[Building energy efficiency standards|six-star energy efficiency rating]]''', announced 19 April 2010. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/19/2876113.htm link]. | ||
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| - | | style="color:#000"|The '''[[Transition Decade]]''' was launched by David de Kretser, Victorian Governer, at a mass public event in Melbourne Town Hall on Sunday 14 October 2010 | + | | style="color:#000"|The '''[[Transition Decade]]''' was launched by David de Kretser, Victorian Governer, at a mass public event in Melbourne Town Hall on Sunday 14 February 2010. |
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| - | | style="color:#000"|Greenlivingpedia's front page background is going dark green this week as part of '''[[Great Australian Internet Blackout]]''' protest January 25-29th. | + | | style="color:#000"|Greenlivingpedia's front page background is going dark green this week as part of '''[[Great Australian Internet Blackout]]''' protest January 25-29th 2010. |
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| | style="color:#000"|Up to 90,000 Australians participated in the '''[[2009 Walk Against Warming]]''' in Australian cities and regional centres on 12 December 2009. Speakers urged the Australian government to participate in a binding international agreement to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and set [[Australian emission reductions projected|strong emission reduction targets]] at the Copenhagen Climate Change conference in progress. | | style="color:#000"|Up to 90,000 Australians participated in the '''[[2009 Walk Against Warming]]''' in Australian cities and regional centres on 12 December 2009. Speakers urged the Australian government to participate in a binding international agreement to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and set [[Australian emission reductions projected|strong emission reduction targets]] at the Copenhagen Climate Change conference in progress. | ||
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| | style="color:#000"|Concerns are raised by developing nations about a leaked draft agreement at the '''[[Copenhagen Climate Change Conference 2009|Copenhagen Climate Change Conference]]''' on 8 December 2009. | | style="color:#000"|Concerns are raised by developing nations about a leaked draft agreement at the '''[[Copenhagen Climate Change Conference 2009|Copenhagen Climate Change Conference]]''' on 8 December 2009. | ||
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| - | | style="color:#000"|CSIRO announced a '''[[CSIRO road trial of plug in hybrid electric vehicles|road trial of plug in hybrid electric vehicles]]''' on 28 October 2009. | ||
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| - | | style="color:#000"|Police tactics for dealing with a '''[http://www.theage.com.au/environment/police-tactics-under-fire-at-hazelwood-20090913-fm7b.html protest at Hazelwood power station]''' in Australia, the dirtiest in the world, are criticised in September 2009. '''[http://www.switchoffhazelwood.org/ More information]'''. | ||
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| - | | style="color:#000"|The United States DOT announces funding for prototype '''[[solar roadways]]''' in August 2009. | ||
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| - | | style="color:#000"|'''[[Safe Climate Australia]]''' is launched by Al Gore in Melbourne, Australia on 13 July 2009. | ||
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| - | | style="color:#000"|'''[[Bottled water]]''' is banned in New South Wales by Premier Nathan Rees on 8 July 2009. | ||
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| - | | style="color:#000"|Dirty Clean Coal Lobby Gave $240,000 to Obama Presidential Campaign. The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) liberally funded both Democrats and Republicans, including both John McCain and Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. [http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/clean-coal-lobby-have-240000-dollars-obama-presidential-campaign.php via Treehugger] | ||
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| - | | style="color:#000"|Greenlivingpedia content now switches to '''[[Greenlivingpedia:Copyright|Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA-3.0)]]''' license. | ||
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| - | | style="color:#000"|People across Australia attend '''[[National Climate Emergency Rally Melbourne June 2009|National Climate Emergency Rallies ]]''' calling for immediate emission reductions and green jobs programs on June 13, 2009. | ||
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| - | | style="color:#000"|A '''[[Human sign St Kilda 2009|Human sign ]]''' stating '''"Climate change - our future is in your hands"''' was formed in Melbourne, Australia on May 1, 2009. | ||
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| - | | style="color:#000"|A '''[[Public bicycles]]''' scheme is announced for Melbourne, Australia on May 17, 2009. | ||
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| - | | style="color:#000"|The '''[[IMiEV electric car]]''' is approved for use on Australian roads on April 9, 2009. | ||
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| - | | style="color:#000"|'''[[Tesla Motors]]''' announces their 7 seater Model S electric car with 500 km range, which will be available in 2011. | ||
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| - | | style="color:#000"|The first '''[[EvMe electric car]]''' is built and sold in Australia on March 10, 2009. | ||
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| - | | style="color:#000"|The draft legislation for the Australian '''[[Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme]]''' was released on March 10, 2009. '''[[Australian climate action groups]]''' have written a '''[[Joint open letter to Penny Wong by 65 Climate Action Groups|Joint open letter to climate change minister Penny Wong]]''' opposing the scheme. | ||
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| - | | style="color:#000"|'''[[2009 Victorian bushfires|Disastrous bushfires]]''' sweep Victoria, Australia, killing 173 people and over a million native animals on February 7, 2009. | ||
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