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WarrandyteCAN [Climate Action Now] The principal objective of WarrandyteCAN is to communicate to our community the urgent need to take immediate action on climate change, to raise awareness and empower people to act to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.costs and reduce green house emissions

Sustainability Expo April 09 attracted strong audience.
Over 20 exhibitors put on an exciting display of the opportunities available to us to help reduce carbon emissions in our own lives at our local Sustainability Expo, early April. Warrandyte CAN members were very satisfied with the level of community participation, with many hundred attending, As with last year we were also appreciative of the high calibre and relevance of the information shared by exhibitors. Exhibitors made an enormous contributing to raising the profile of carbon emission reduction issues in Warrandyte and responses to our follow-up feedback survey indicate they achieved valuable sales leads from their efforts. Like us, they’re all indicating they’ll be back again next year!

Recent Showing of Movie ‘Who Killed the Electric Car’.
While for some people it wasn’t new ‘news’, many of those attending the Movie Night on June 5 learned a lot about how vested interests and big business can conspire to squash a great idea. Who Killed the Electric Car? is the US documentary film exploring the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle. You can access the movie through libraries if you’d still like to see it. Community viewings of documentaries like this are a great way to continue to broaden our knowledge on climate change issues and a fun way to get together and make new friends at the same time. If you have any relevant movie suggestions, email Warrandyte CAN with your ideas.

Upcoming Speaker Events
Stay tuned for details on our next information night planned for late August or early September. We’re hoping to bring to Warrandyte for two separate presentations, two exceptional contributors to our understanding of Climate Change and man’s impact thereon:
Climatologist Professor David Karoly and member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and David Spratt, co-author of Climate Change Red.

Updates from State Politicians on Climate Policies
Planning is underway for a forum in November, featuring local representatives from our various political parties. It’s an opportunity to update our information on the climate change policies being promoted by each Party. Letters of request have been sent to Ryan Smith MLA (Liberal Party, representing Warrandyte and currently Shadow Parliamentary Secretary, Environment and the Arts), Danielle Green MLA (Labour Party Member for the District of Yan Yean in the Legislative Assembly and Parliamentary Secretary for Emergency Services) and a Greens representative will present their policies and take your questions. A date will be announced as soon as we have confirmation of a time to suit all speakers.

Membership

To all those who’ve shown interest in WarrandyteCAN, thank you. Effectively you’ve put your hand up to say
‘I want to do as much as I can to reduce carbon emissions locally and to influence the broader debate on climate change’.
Well done. WarrandyteCAN make a Difference.

As individuals it is, of course, possible to contribute to change without joining CAN. However, Membership means you have access to information, resources and a cohesive group network within which You CAN make a Difference!
With your membership support, the CAN Committee provides you with an information network and an activities program that we hope you fully embrace. Since our inception in April, together we have introduced the following:
•Regular monthly meetings of the Committee and members where we can learn and contribute.
•Regular 6-8 weekly information nights with expert speakers in the field of reducing emissions.
•Email communications when urgency or updates necessitate.

Download the Membership Application Form
Download Membership Form (pdf)
Contains full details on types of membership and methods of payment. Please print it and give/letterbox drop/email this
form to others along with your own reasons for joining, or perhaps using some of the thoughts above.

Download Issues of InSight below, the official Newsletter of WarrandyteCAN

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