Environment

Written by Aponi Kailash LOCATION OF CLIMATE STRIKE AUTHOR ATTENDED: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — additional strikes were held in Europe on Friday 27th September, numbers in the millions.   Our world is changing. Fact. Humans are the largest contributor to climate change. Fact. Anyone has the power to make a change to our future. Fact. From one young girl in Sweden, a movement started that has reached global proportions. In Australia close to 400, 000 people stood-up for action against climate change. We stood-up for our future. ———— My Friday September 20th was a day that saw tens of thousands spill

By Nellie O’Shea Carre More than 500 youth climate leaders from 60 countries convened at the United Nations headquarters in New York City this weekend, to showcase solutions to climate challenges and demand action from world leaders at the inaugural UN Youth Climate Summit. The tone of the summit was set on Friday, as millions of people rallied around the world to protest inaction on from political and business leaders on the current climate crisis. Youth speakers at the summit presented innovative climate solutions, and engaged directly with decision-makers on what the UN has described as the “defining issue of

by Leo Maletzke   Coffee is grown in 80 countries, is one of the world’s most popular drinks, and is the second most traded commodity after petroleum. A typical lifecycle of coffee has numerous stages and may involve the economies and geographies of multiple countries. First, the coffee tree grows from a planted seed in the ground. The tree grows over three years, growing fruit known as cherries. After another three years, these cherries can be harvested. The beans inside the cherries must then be picked. The bean is taste tested for quality, processed, by being dried out, and filtered.

The fight against climate change is ramping up. As mines like Adani pose an ever-greater threat to our future, we should look back at another campaign which fought against the corporate destruction of our environment. In the 1970s and 80s, the Australian nuclear industry was challenged by a movement that drew hundreds of thousands into the streets and saw organised workers across the country directly threaten the business of uranium corporations. The industry was held back from the worst possible extremes by the strength of ordinary people, though it ultimately managed to survive. We need to learn the lessons of

If it’s true that you should judge a day, not by the harvest you reap but the seeds you plant; the Australian Labor Party have had some very bad days since their federal election loss. They’ve continued to foster a right-wing thicket that increasingly encroaches on their ability to move to the left, when it occasionally suits them of course. In the wake of their election loss, Labor has decided not to split with their habit of tailing the Liberals, instead moving further to the right. They blamed their loss on those to the left of them, namely Bob Brown’s