In July 2009 — Over 1200 young people converged on Sydney for Australia’s national youth climate summit. The conference was organised by the AYCC. See the highlights or re-live what was an incredible 3 days of passion, energy and action. [[Note to Powershifters -- Thanks to all of you who filled out the survey after [...]
You Don’t want to get Involved in Youth Decide?
August 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Come on, we know you actually want to. It’s really close now – only 6 weeks away – and it’s going to be an incredible show of force of a mass decentralised movement. It’s so easy to organise an event in your school, Uni, TAFE or community, there’s really no reason not to get involved. [...]
Youth Decide 09
August 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
For those reading the blog and noting it hasn’t been updated since May – it’s not because we haven’t been super active, it’s because we were using the blog at www.powershift.org.au. Now that Power Shift is over the whole team is working on Youth Decide ’09, Australia’s first youth climate vote. AYCC is partnering with [...]
Climate Leaders Project
May 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The AYCC has launched a national training and internship project – the Youth Climate Leaders Project. Leaders’ workshops and presentations happening in Sydney and Melbourne at the moment show signs of great things to come from these community leaders. Around 30 young people have begun a journey that will build their skills and knowledge around [...]
Urent Rally this Saturday in Sydney
May 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Urgent Rally: it’s time to stand up to big polluters 10am, Saturday 16 May Sydney Town Hall AYCC encourages all our Sydney members and Power Shifters to attend this rally on Saturday. We’re peacefully protesting the Federal Government’s recent moves to weaken the already inadequate Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. IT’S TIME to: * Stop handouts [...]
Earth Protect
March 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Hi everyone, Recently a new enviro video social networking website called Earth Protect kindly linked to us on their site and featured our “Your Targets = Our Future” video. Read below or you can download their flyer here for more information From Image to Action: www.earthprotect.com Earth Protect, Inc. is a social networking video site [...]
3 April: Climate Change @ Work Conference
March 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment
This conference is kindly accepting two of the guys from our policy team to attend. It looks like a great event, I encourage you to check it out. The price is $200 for students and to receive this price contact Karen at k.treacy@econ.usyd.edu.au. The Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney, is one of Australia’s leading [...]
21st March: People’s Blockade of World’s Biggest Coal Port
March 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
We’ll be doing more promotion of this event soon, but wanted to give you all a heads up: Rising Tide Newcastle is organising its annual, fun, People’s Blockade of the World’s Biggest Coal Port. Here’s some info: What: A fun day on the beach and water, for people of many backgrounds to come together and [...]
Centre for Sustainability Leadership Program Opens
March 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
If you think the way our world is being run is a recipe for disaster, then do something about it. You could be a part of the Centre for Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Program that provides expert training and mentoring to inspire and cultivate responsible leaders of tomorrow. We welcome people in any field to apply. [...]
AYCC at Big Skills conference
March 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Hi everyone, today I gave a speech at the DEEWR ‘Big Skills’ conference to about 170 people from Government, business and the employment industry. I was on a panel with Heather Ridout from the Australian Industry Group, and Steve Hatfield-Dodds from the Department of Climate Change. Here’s the start of my speech: Over a year [...]
