Category Archives: addresses-talks

A very human tragedy

The Walk Against Warming campaign is about everything we know — about an unprecedented threat to our civilised way of life. It is our mission to find the courage and resolution to change the way we live. Continue reading

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Government and Reality: Persuading politicians we have a problem

Address to Climate Change Action Forum, Dechaineaux Theatre, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart. [18 September 2008 | Peter Boyer] “Houston, we have a problem,” was how Apollo Thirteen conveyed to its mother planet that its crew was in imminent peril … Continue reading

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Developing climate leaders of the future

Climate and sustainability need to be built in to our school curriculum, building on the separate efforts of individual teachers and students to raise awareness of the need to change. Continue reading

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