CEFE President Dr Matthew Nott is presenting at this years Canberra Urban and Regional Futures Annual Forum to be held at ANU on Thursday November 30 on the topic ‘Tathra Community Power’
Professor Andrew Blakers (pictured) will present the keynote ‘100% Renewable Energy Futures’ to open the forum at 9.25 am.
You can download the full program here
Category Archives: Political Engagement
20170724 Public Meeting at Bermagui July 24
If you missed this very informative session you can view the presentations of the speakers here
Karl Edmonson from Reposit on the tools they provide for intelligent management of household energy systems incorporating solar PV and batteries
Harry Chami from Solar Juice for an update on domestic solar PV
Tom Nockolds from the Community Power Agency for an overview of what other communities are doing
John Waters from Ekonomix on large scale solar and battery systems
Tony Pfeiffer on the community owned energy retailer Enova and
John Keeble from Wattwatchers on another approach to improving efficiency and reducing energy spend through monitoring and control
20170604 Tim Flannery Event in Bega
Dr Will Steffan at Tathra on June 22
2016 Eden-Monaro Candidates Forum
Three major Far South Coast (FSC) organisations have come together to host a Federal Election Candidates’ Forum at the Bermagui Community Centre on Saturday, 4 June at 5.30 pm. Clean Energy for Eternity Inc, the National Trust (FSC Branch), and the National Parks Association (FSC Branch), have invited all Eden Monaro Candidates to present their positions and to address real concerns within our Electorate.
The Moderator for the evening will be Mr Tim Holt, former well-known and respected ABC-South East Radio presenter. Representatives will include: Dr Matthew Nott, Founder and President of Clean Energy for Eternity Inc; Dr Frances Perkins, Chair of National Trust (FSC Branch); Mr David Gallan, President of National Parks Association; and Dr Bronte Somerset from NPA’s Great Southern Forests campaign.
The Forum will focus on big issues requiring strong leadership. These include climate change, the future of our native forests, and the quality of life in our region as influenced by employment and business opportunities through renewable energy projects, health, education, and protection of our natural environment. There will be ample opportunity for questions from the audience.
For further information, please contact Prue Kelly, Clean Energy for Eternity Inc on 0418 161 547 or [email protected]
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20160415 GetUp releases Home Grown Power Plan
You can read or download the Home Grown Power Plan here
20151127 People’s Climate March
CEFE members were out in force for the People’s Climate March on November 27. Mosman and Northern Beaches CEFE both participated in the Sydney march, and a group also marched in Canberra. In Bega there was a well attended pre-march picnic at which Matthew Nott spoke.
Sadly, no photos of the Bega picnic!
20151205 Philippa Rowland to speak at UN summit in Paris
Philippa Rowland, one of the founding members of Clean Energy for Eternity, is Paris-bound, keen to play a role in shaping a safer climate future for the world. Philippa intends to bear witness at a pivotal time in the world’s response to a warming atmosphere.
“If we turn the corner now we still have time,” she said.
“There’s a lot we can do as individuals. We can do so much more as communities, but unless we can also have an influence on policy, we can go backwards quite fast.”
It is that focus on changing policy that drives Philippa towards France as a representative of the community-based Climate Action Network.
Philippa is deeply honoured to be playing a role in Paris, building on her experience at the 2009 UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen. Paris must succeed where Copenhagen failed. What is needed is a new international agreement on climate change, applicable to all countries, that kept global warming below 2 degrees Celsius.
“Climate change is now a lived experience, one of the shocking things about climate change is the injustice at the fact that the impact falls hardest on those who are unable to deal with it”. In the lead-up to the talks, countries have flagged proposed pollution cuts and clean energy measures in order to meet a binding target.
“We know they’re not enough, but it’s more a sense that people are offering up what they can do,” she said.
“There is an opportunity to actually tap into what a better future can look like and put your energy into creating that better future.”
Ms Rowland is more hopeful of a positive approach under new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull than under Tony Abbott’s leadership.
“There’s a sense that we may become a country that stands up to its own responsibility,” she said.
20150712 Setting Australia’s emission reduction target
As nations prepare for the Paris UN Climate Conference in November, there are quite diverse groups calling for meaningful emissions reduction targets and action to limit global warming to the international agreed target of 20C. Check out the following:
- LGNSW’s submission to UNFCCC Taskforce into Setting Australia’s post-2020 target for greenhouse gas emissions.
- An open letter from farmers to the Liberal party.
- Comment on policy responses to protect health in a changing climate from the medical journal The Lancet.
- Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment which warns of ‘serious consequences’ if the world does not act on climate change.
- A Dutch district court has ordered the Netherlands to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 25% lower than 1990 levels by 2020.
20150309 Narrabeen environmental election Q&A
About 80 people attended a Q&A session organised by CEFE Northern Beaches at the Narrabeen Tram Shed on March 9 2015. Upper house candidate Justin Field represented the Greens, James Wheeldon, candidate for the seat of North Shore represented the ALP and Rob Stokes Minister for the Environment represented the Coalition. CEFE’s John Davis moderated. The questions came from CEFE members and other local environmental groups. They were given to the panel members in advance and each had the same time to answer.
See videos of the answers to som of the questions below