We’re a local community group working towards positive climate solutions. Together we can make a better future.

Guides and inspiration

• Fight for Planet A – Community Solutions Plan
• Spiral Garden – #52climatesolutions
• 1 Million Women
• Zero Waste Tasmania

Food

• Reduce your meat and dairy intake
• Ditch palm oil

Transport

• Bicycle Network Tasmania
• Go electric!
  • Good Car Co – community bulk buy of second hand electric vehicles
  • Australian Electric Vehicle Association
• Flight Free Australia – commit to go flightless (or reduce the number of times you fly)

Electricity

• Achieving Fast, Fair and Sustainable Transmission Development – Recommendations for ‘Rewiring the Nation’ (PDF)
• Sustainable Living Tasmania
• YourHome – Australia’s guide to sustainable homes
• My Efficient Electric Home – Facebook group
• Tasmanian Renewable Energy Alliance
• Renew magazine – sustainable living ebooks and publications

Consumption and waste

Reduce

• Commit to ‘buy nothing new’ for a week/month/year
• Bring your own bag, produce bag, container, or buy bulk
• Nappy alternatives
  • Clean Cloth Nappies
  • Eenee Compostable Nappies
• Community Exchange Network Tasmania – trade your goods, services and skills with others in the community
• A family guide to waste free living

Re-use

• Re-Loved Market
• Mornington Park Waste Transfer Station – Second Chance Reuse Shop

Repair

• Repair Café Hobart – Kickstart Arts Moonah, monthly

Re-purpose

• Up-Cycled Cloth Collective

Rot

• Compost your organic waste
• ShareWaste – drop your food scraps to a neighbour if you can’t compost yourself

Recycle

• REDcycle your soft plastics – Coles and Woolworths collection points
• TerraCycle – difficult to recycle plastics, e-waste, etc; collection point at Hobart City Council office

• Landcare/Coastcare – sort by ‘Municipality’ to find groups in Clarence
• Natural Resource Management – South
• Bees in the burbs – look after the native bees
• Gardens for Wildlife

Divest

Divesting is one of the most impactful ways to reduce your greenhouse gas footprint

Bank

• Banks – Market Forces

Superannuation

• Super – Market Forces
• Podcast – Richard Curtis Wants to Make Your Money Matter

Insurance

• Insurance – Market Forces

Shares

• Australian Centre for Corporate Responsibility – shareholders can have their say on climate responsibility

Search engine

• Ecosia

Donate

• Carbon8 – regenerative agriculture
• The Intrepid Foundation – seaweed permaculture
• Seed – Indigenous youth climate network
• Malala Fund – education for girls
• To a climate action group, e.g.
  • AYCC
  • Farmers for Climate Action
  • Greenpeace

Climate anxiety and mental health

• Australian Psychology Alliance – climate change resources
• Climate Psychology Alliance
• ACTIVATE framework for ‘Active Hope’

Communication skills

• How to talk about climate change
• Rebecca Huntley on ABC The Drum
• 10 Communication Tips to Change the Climate Story
• Climate for Change conversation guide

How to combat common climate denial myths

• Have you got climate zombies? We debunk the myths that refuse to die – ABC Science
• The biggest climate change myths debunked – news.com.au
• How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic: Responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming – Grist

• Food Gardeners Tasmania – Facebook group
• The Food Garden Group – blog and email newsletter

Community gardens

• Community Gardens around Clarence
• Iron Plot Community Garden (South Arm)
• Risdon Vale Community Hub
• Warrane Community Garden
• Clarence Plains GROW Garden

Produce markets

• Hobart Produce Market – Kangaroo Bay Bellerive Saturdays 9am–1pm
• Harmony Market first Saturday of every month (Harmony Garden Centre Lauderdale)

Listen

• Outrage + Optimism
• Climactic
• Mothers of Invention
• Curious Climate – local climate scientists/ABC Hobart

Read

• 2040: A Handbook for the Regeneration by Damon Gameau
• The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
• Project Drawdown
• CSIRO – climate change information for Australia
• Climate Council
• Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
• Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
• Climate for Change – Climate Updates subscription – fortnightly, easy to understand format

Watch

• Fight for Planet A – ABC iView
• Climate Change: The Facts – David Attenborough
• 2040: The Regeneration
• An Inconvenient Sequel – Netflix or Google Play
• Towards 2040 – webinar series
• David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet – Netflix

Schools

• Start or join a sustainability group in your school
• Education for Sustainability Tasmania – a network of professionals working towards sustainability through education
• Department of Education – Sustainability Learning Centre
• 2040 documentary – resources for teachers

Community groups

• Clarence Climate Action
• Plasticwise Eastside – sewing bees and workshops
• Permaculture Tasmania
• Permaculture Tasmania: Eastern Shore Hobart – Facebook group

Online communities

• Australian Parents for Climate Action Group
• Fight for Planet A – Our Climate Challenge
• Fearless Climate Leaders
• 2040: The Regeneration
• Try searching for a demographic or professional climate association that suits you!

• Support the Uluru Statement – From the Heart, calling for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament
• Seed – Indigenous youth climate action group
• Our Islands, Our Home: Torres Strait climate justice case – sign and donate

Support local action

Give feedback on local opportunities for climate change action and ask that climate be considered in all proposals

• Your Say Clarence
• Skylands development, Tranmere

Sign a petition

• Climate Act Now
• Australian Conservation Foundation – Healthy economic recovery
• Save Tassie’s Forests – For Our Climate
• Don’t Frack the NT
• Stop Adani petition
• The Adani List (via Market Forces)
• Our Islands, Our Home: Torres Strait climate justice case

Write a letter

• Letter to the Editor – The Mercury
• To a Clarence City Council alderman
• To a Federal MP
• Open Australia – sign up to receive an email alert any time your Federal MP speaks in parliament

Protest

• Attend the next school strike for climate rally