Climate Change Despair & Empowerment Roadshow



Climate Change Despair & Empowerment Roadshow
with Ruth Rosenhek

Kindly supported by the Blue Mountains City Council

MC: Elisabeth Bastian
Sunday 22nd April 2007
1.30pm for a 2pm start
Katoomba Civic Centre,
Katoomba Street


John Seed and Ruth Rosenhek of the Rainforest Information Centre are taking to the road with their Climate Change Despair and Empowerment Roadshow to help catalyse and support a dynamic climate change movement across Australia.

The roadshow, which premiered at Woodford Folk Festival in December 2006, features a multi-media presentation including video footage of Al Gore speaking on the Australian situation. During the 90-minute presentations, Rosenhek and Seed address the hopeless despair that many feel and how this can be transformed into the fuel for empowerment and effective action.

The presentations address the false and "business as usual" solutions being touted by the major political parties such as nuclear power and "clean" coal and suggest where the real solutions may be found (eg. removing Australia's $6.5 billion a year in subsidies to the fossil fuel industries - and supporting instead energy efficiency, solar, wind, geothermal, protecting our forests etc.).

At the presentations, participants are encouraged to join or form Climate Study/Action groups as a vehicle for communities to build resilient networks in which we can support each other in the changes we need to collectively make as well as to encourage each other to lobby government for strong climate change platforms in the lead-up to the state and federal elections.

http://www.climate.net.au

Ruth Rosenhek, MS in Organisational Management, is Director of the Rainforest Information Centre in Lismore (NSW). Ruth is an international environmental activist who organizes and campaigns on behalf of forest protection, land rights and global justice and teaches deep ecology. See: http://www.rainforest.org.au/deep-eco/ruth_photos.html

This event has been endorsed and supported by:
Blue Mountains City Council
Katoomba Neighbourhood Centre
Blue Mountains Nuclear Free Group
Friends of the Earth Blue Mountians
SEE-Change

if you would like to endorse the event or would like more info please contact:

Email: natalie.lowrey[at]foe.org.au
Mobile: 0421 356 067
Phone: 02 4782 1181