Zero Emission Network

• Consumer Power
• Political Power
• Spread the word
• Campaigning

Consumer Power

Consume less, buy green
The goal here is to reduce your emission by changing your consumption patterns. Producers and business will soon follow the lead of the consumers if enough people change the way they consume.

Actions you can take can be summarised as follows:

• consume less in general
• stop eating beef, lamb and dairy or go vegetarian or vegan, buy in season, organic food, produced locally or grow your own.
• buy 100% greenpower for your home, workplace or business and at the same time reduce your energy use.
• reduce or eliminate your personal transport emissions by walking, riding, using public transport, or buying an electric vehicle and charging it on your 100% green power.
• don't use timber products sourced from native forests.
• compost waste aerobically

Standby power switch, electric bike, quite mirco wind turbines, and solar heat pump hot water. Check out these Aussie innovations that may help solve the climate emergency.

The Natural Strategies Group has a excellent site on personal action you can take to reduce your climate impact.

Etiko is a company trying to put ethical shopping into practice. They have started by making soccer balls that are produced using fair trade standards, then by certified forests standards and are now looking at carbon emissions.

Sadly many schools and sporting clubs are happy to still use balls made by child slave labour.

Political Power

Your Vote
Your vote is important and sadly no major party including the greens is offering a climate change solution.

Major parties do take not of where your first preference vote goes and how your preference flows.

So to send a climate message at election time to the major parties and vote in order of strength on the climate issue.

At the last federal election the two parties with the strongest climate policies and stance were the Socialist Alliance and What Women Want.

Voter Climate Information
One of our member groups had the best political climate analysis of any environment groups, unfortunately Vote Climate's website was taken down the same time as ours and will be rebuilt in due course. Until then see the archived 2007 NSW Election site at the National Library.

Vote Nuclear Free had the best analysis on the main political parties stances on nuclear issues.

Spread the Word

Tell your friends, tell your family

The faster we get the message out there that we are in a sustainability/climate emergency the better the chance we have of save the future.

The best introduction to the issue of climate change is still "An Inconvenient Truth (AIT) by Al Gore. The DVD has been modified fro the original version to include the concept of "Zero Emissions" as part of the solutions and an additional separate update that looks at the current science round the DVD off nicely.

• Organise an AIT film night for your friends family, workplace or group. Make sure you watch the additional update.
• Buy copies of AIT for presents for your friends and family.
• Discuss the energy saving pracitices you are implementing.
• Cook a great vegetarian meal for others.
• Put some "Zero Emissions Now" posters up in your workplace or community. See Campaign Resources
• Print out the

Campaign

taking the next step

A growing number of people are understanding how serious the situation we face is and are being campaigning on "Zero Emissions Now" and rapid reduction of atmospheric Greenhouse gases.

See.... for more details on getting involved in the Zero Emissions Now Campaign.