West Coast Climate Change Road Show
global, 12.08.2007 09:53
The Climate Change Despair and Empowerment Roadshow is making a stop in Ashland. The roadshow will be in Ashland on Tuesday, August 28th at 7pm at the Ashland Unitarian Church.
The Climate Change Despair & Empowerment roadshow originated in Australia and aims to catalyse, invigorate and support grassroots climate action groups across the nation.
The 90 minute presentation, addresses the hopeless despair that many people feel about climate change and how to transform despair into empowerment and effective action.
The show aims to unveil the false “business as usual”, solutions being touted by the major political parties such as nuclear power and so called “clean coal”.
We then raise awareness and inspire both personal action and political action towards the real solutions that we, the people, must insist upon.
More Details:
to see their website go to
www.climate.net.au
Climate Change Despair & Empowerment Roadshow
August 28th Ashland Unitarian Church
87 fourth st Ashland 7pm
Kelly Tudhope of the Rainforest Information Centre is taking to the road with the Climate Change Despair and Empowerment Roadshow to help catalyse and support a dynamic, grassroots climate change movement.
The roadshow, which premiered at Woodford Folk Festival in Australia in December 2006, features a multi-media presentation including video footage of Al Gore speaking on the Australian situation. During the 90-minute presentations, presenters address the hopeless despair that many feel and how this can be transformed into the fuel for empowerment and effective action. The presentations address the false and “business as usual†solutions being touted by the major political parties such as nuclear power and “clean†coal and suggest where the real solutions may be found (eg. removing the developed world's $200 billion a year in subsidies to the fossil fuel industries - and supporting instead energy efficiency, solar, wind, geothermal, protecting our forests etc.).
At the presentations, participants are encouraged to join or form Climate Study/Action groups as a vehicle for communities to build resilient networks in which we can support each other in the changes we need to collectively make as well as to encourage each other to lobby government for strong climate change policies.
The roadshow aims to:
Catalyse, invigorate and support grassroots climate study/action groups.
Address the hopeless despair that many people feel and provide tools to transform despair into empowerment and effective action. This will be based on the Despair & Empowerment work of Joanna Macy and the Climate Change, Despair and Empowerment talk which John Seed gave in Massachusetts earlier this year with Pullitzer Prize winning journalist Ross Gelbspan. The 60-minute film made from this event is available on DVD as is the DVD of the extraordinary 60-minute presentation on Climate Change that Ross Gelbspan made to the World Affairs Council. Both of these are available free of charge to anyone who agrees to use them to educate family, friends and community. Please email 
johnseed1@ozemail.com.au
Unveil the false and business as usual, solutions being touted by the major political parties such as nuclear power and "clean" coal.
Raise awareness and inspire political action towards the real solutions that we, the people, must insist upon. (eg. end subsidies to the fossil fuel industries, support energy efficiency, solar, wind, geothermal etc.)
Provide resources for the many things that we can all do to turn the situation around.
Support a network of Climate Study/Action Groups through 1) the development of a website which includes all resources that are made available at the roadshow plus more. 2) meeting facilitation support and consulting on group process as needed.