Web links
Coal campaign links
Six Degrees - Brisbane collective taking action against the Queensland coal industry
Save the Drip - Mudgee group campaigning to save the Goulburn River from coal mines
Bickham Coal Action Group - the successful campaign to save the Pages River and surrounds from a coal mine
Wybong Action Group - Community group campaigning to save Anvil Hill from a massive coal mine
Rivers SOS - alliance of over 40 environmental and community groups concerned with the wrecking of rivers in New South Wales by mining operations.
Lee Rhiannon - NSW Parliamentarian campaigning for a transition away from coal. See also her collection of aerial photographs of open cut coal mining in the Hunter Valley.
Mackay Conservation Group - Community group in Queensland's Bowen Basin.
Bimblebox Nature Reserve - stiving to save Queenland's threatened remnant bushland from coal mining.
Gloucester Residents in Partnership - community group in oppositing to Gloucester Coal's plans for ongoing expansion.
Caroona Coal Action Group - community group attempting to save the Liverpool Plains from BHP-Billiton.
Barrington-Gloucester-Stroud Preservation Alliance - stiving to save a beautiful area from coal mining and other destructive plans.
Bowen Residents Action Association - Campaigning to protect special places from the rapacious Queensland export coal industy.
Hunter Valley Protection Alliance - community group campaigning against coal seam gas drilling in the Hunter.
Australian climate campaign links
Local Climate Action Groups (by no means an exhaustive list):
Climate Change Balmain-Rozelle
Ryde-Gladesville Climate Action Group
Parramatta Climate Action Network
Citizens' Climate Campaign - Blue Mountains group
Victorian groups - a list of community climate groups in Victoria.
Climate action networks:
Australia's Climate Action Summit - annual forum of Australia's grassroots climate action group network.
Climate Action Network Australia - Broad network of NGOs working on climate issues.
Climate Emergency Network - Victorian network of community climate groups.
Australian Student Environment Network - the climate campaign page of the national student environmental activist network.
Climate Movement - Linking communities action on climate change.
And some other ones:
Friends of the Earth Australia
Liquor, Hospitality, and Miscellaneous Union
We are part of a global grassroots movement against the root causes of climate change, and for climate justice.
Other Global links
Climate Camp UK - the annual Camp for Climate Action UK.
Save Happy Valley - high profile national campaign in NZ/Aotearoa to prevent coal mining in the precious Happy Valley
Plane Stupid - UK group active against airport expansion
Plan B - campaigning to end the UK Government's support for the oil industry
Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative
Oil Watch - opposes the activities of oil companies in tropical countries.
Baku Ceyhan campaign - against the oil pipeline through Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey.
Unravelling the Carbon Web - to reduce the environmental and social impacts of oil corporations
Critical Mass - and there is one in Newcastle
World Naked Bike Ride - annual, global, naked protest rides against cars, oil, climate change, war...
Firstnations.de - campaigning against coal, oil, and gas extraction on indigenous lands in British Columbia
Oil Sands Truth - shut down the tar sands
Biofuewatch - exposing the devastion wrought by the biofuels industry
Phulbari Resistance - a blog on the campaign against the massive proposed Phulbari coal mine in Bangladesh
Issues, solutions, research
Cheatneutral - Helping you to offset your heartache emissions.
COyou2 - cutting edge carbon capture and storage.
The Story of Stuff -- great resources on the chain of production and consumption and its environmental and social costs.
Carbon Trading, the book - A comprehensive, accessible, and generally excellent downloadable book outlining the history and fatal flaws of carbon trading. Read the blurb.
Energyscience.org.au - collaboration of concerned scientists, engineers and policy experts to present information to people on the issue of sustainable energy.
The Australia Institute - progressive think tank with a passion for climate research
Alternative Technology Association - Australian organisation promoting sustainable energy.
Environmental Justice Initiative Australia - exposes the social, environmental and cultural costs associated with Australia's non-renewable energy industry
AID/WATCH - Activist organisation monitoring and campaigning on Australian overseas aid and trade policies and programs
Mineral Policy Institute - Monitering the practices of the mining industry.
Carbon Trade Watch - Publishes brutal critiques of the emerging global orthodoxy that carbon trading can save us.
The Corner House UK - think tank that does a lot of work on carbon trading and climate justice.
CDM Watch - moniters the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol (that's the bit that allows rich countries to fake their way out of cutting emissions by planting monoculture tree plantations in poor countries)
Sinks Watch - tracking and scrutinising carbon sink projects
New Economics Foundation - progressive think tank doing a lot of work on climate change
Politics of Oil - a project by the US Centre for Public Integrity
envirowiki.info - environmentalism/activism based wiki resource (editable)
Mines and Communities - seeks to empower mining-affected communities in their struggles against damaging proposals and projects.
Skeptical Science - Catalogues and debunks the arguments used by climate denialists.
