On 10/10/10 AYCC people will be donning their blue Tshirts and heading along to support the following events: what will you be doing? – Sydney: ParraCAN, CAMWest and 350.org Bike Ride Sunday 10 October 2010 from 10am to 2pm. Parramatta Park – Salter’s Field near old Dairy. Cycling for all ages and fitness levels from [...]
Could you be the AYCC’s chief blogger?
October 1, 2010 By 3 Comments
WE STUFFED UP: we accidentally muddled the submissions email on this post. Eeek. If you have tried to submit your entry or are about to the correct email is submissions.blog@youthclimatecoalition.org – sorry people! Have you got a passion for poetry? Do you look at the world through a camera lens? Or maybe you are the [...]
AYCC’s election wrap up
September 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Sign up to become a Climate Champion and support the work of the AYCC. Your generous monthly donation will give us the oxygen we need to run our innovative projects, like our 2010 Federal election campaign. Check out what we achieved in this video: We’ve shown you what we are capable of achieving when we [...]
Next generation of leaders take over Canberra
September 23, 2010 By 1 Comment
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. If you thought we were taking a breather, think again. Following a massive few months of Powershifting and Election Campaigning, AYCC volunteers across the country are now being trained up to lead the exciting campaigns we have planned for the rest of the year! Two weeks ago volunteers from the Melbourne [...]
Power Vote Election Campaign Wrap
August 26, 2010 By 1 Comment
The election outcome is undecided, but one thing is certain: beyond the politics and headlines of the campaign, we’ve seen something incredible. It’s the beginning of an unstoppable movement of young people who, no matter who is in power, are joining forces and throwing every ounce of energy into solving the climate crisis. I want [...]
ABC’s The Drum: Inaction will cost us our future
August 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Our political leaders would have you believe that the last days of the federal election campaign are all about the issue they say matters most for voters – handling of the economy. However, for the 2.6 million voters under 30 in Australia, it is not so much the economy of the next election cycle they [...]
Stuff.co.nz: Australian PM stalked by elephant
August 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Amid the hurly-burly of the election campaign, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been stalked by an unusual protester: an elephant. Its accompanying sign reads: “The elephant is in the room: reduce (carbon) pollution.” Gillard may have hoped the elephant-sized problem of climate change would fade from the campaign, but it seems to have got bigger. [...]
