Alex Houlston and Tosh Szatow, owners of The People’s Solar, have partnered with St Kilda Community Housing to create Port Phillip’s first community funded solar panel project for a social housing site at 56 Jackson Street, St Kilda. More about the St Kilda project is HERE. Margaret Hender is chair of CORENA, a not-for-profit that has financed small solar projects in Adelaide via donations.

Lis Fenwick installed this solar system on the roof of her engineering company in Port Melbourne. Andrew Jaspan created The Conversation as a daily on-line newspaper written by academics. Maelor Himbury prepares Daily Links, a list of news articles published on the internet each day.

Deckchair DemocracyDeckchair Democracy was a campaign held in May 2010 when LIVE members spent five hours a day, every day, campaigning for action on climate change on the steps of Victoria’s Parliament House. Human SignLIVE’s Human Sign was held on St Kilda Beach on Sunday 17 May 2009. Four thousand people spent out the words CLIMATE CHANGE – OUR FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS. SubmissionsLIVE has written many Submissions to government on climate change issues. Are submissions considered, or do they only allow the “community consultation” box to be ticked?

TED TALKSOver 50 TED talks on the subject of climate change. The UpworthyThe Upworthy features short videos about topics that make you think. Port Phillip EcocentreEvents this month at the Port Phillip EcoCentre in St Kilda. MAP.

52 Week Sustainability Challenge

LIVE received this email on 16 October from a good friend, Brett Hedger. Perhaps you are interested.

After attending the climate change forum last night it got me thinking about whether your members would be up for an action based sustainability challenge.

Recently I kicked off a 52 week challenge for me and one other person – but word has spread and in the last 4 days, 36 more people have joined in. It is a locally based challenge, there are no winners and losers and nothing is mandatory – we are currently in week 1 and participants have quickly moved into action mode and are completing the first challenge.

You can see more at www.lifeinharmony.com.au and feel free to send to your members, all I need is a name and an email address to add them to my list, simple as that. I can be contacted at brett@www.lifeinharmony.com.au for anyone who is interested.

GetUp! ask you to switch to inexpensive Green Electricity from POWERSHOP.

Better Power is a GetUp! campaign that asks you to switch to green electricity. GetUp! is recommending switching from AGL, Origin and Energy Australia to POWERSHOP. Greenpeace recently published this Guide listing the green credentials of all electricity retailers. The Guide rates POWERSHOP as the greenest, most inexpensive electricity retailer in Victoria. You can switch to POWERSHOP HERE in 10 minutes.

Super Switch – An initiative of Market Forces in partnership with 350.org.

What if our retirement funds are delivering us a world unfit to retire into? Australians care about a healthy environment, yet most of us are financially supporting the coal, oil and gas sector through our superannuation. . . MORE

The Australia Institute have prepared the report “Climate Proofing Your Finances: Making Your Money Fossil Free” that explains the issues in more detail. This article by Michael Green provides background on the divestment movement in Australia.

Future Super is Australia’s first fossil fuel free superannuation fund.

Australia’s first fossil fuel free super fund, Future Super, opened for business in September 2014. Read this report from Renew Economy and this one from the Sydney Morning Herald for more information. You can join Future Super in less than 2 minutes.

“A Fractured Country” – Will Coal Seam Gas Mining come to Victoria?

This 40 minute movie is one everyone should see. Help prevent what has happened in Queensland and New South Wales farming communities from happening in Victoria after the November election. READ MORE about the anti-fracking campaign in Victoria.

It’s time for Australia’s next light-bulb moment” by Richard Keech.

Imagine a conservative Australian government being widely applauded for introducing new product regulation that reduces consumption and increases prices of the regulated items.

That’s what happened in 2007 when the then environment minister Malcolm Turnbull regulated light bulbs. This resulted in making the common worst-performing light bulbs illegal by setting a mandatory minimum energy performance threshold. For normal light bulbs, this new standard took effect in November 2009 with little fanfare or fuss. As a result of this regulation . . . MORE

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