EmpowerWA: What are you doing for a cleaner tomorrow?

Join the movement in WA! Make a video about what you are doing for a cleaner tomorrow and post it here: http://empowerwa.org.au/content/what-are-you-doing-cleaner-tomorrow
Also, check out the awesome map of what others in your area are doing.

Some interesting news items today:

Mining is digging the heart out of conservation covenants 

Across Australia, landholders are signing conservation agreements or covenants to protect biodiversity on their property. These agreements, offered by state governments, create private protected areas that commonly bind future landholders to protect the property’s biodiversity, ensuring the long-term survival of plant and animal communities.
It seems like a good deal: a private protected area comes at little to no cost to the government and offers protection to biodiversity that might not otherwise have been protected.
Unfortunately there’s a catch. The government does not exempt these private protected areas from mining activities. Rather, in all states of Australia, the government can still give miners permits to explore and extract in these private protected areas.

https://theconversation.edu.au/mining-is-digging-the-heart-out-of-conservation-covenants-6588

Lost in the clouds 

ABOUT 220 species of animals, reptiles and amphibians live in the lush rainforests of far north Queensland — with 90 or so found nowhere else in the world. But, because of the effects of a warming climate, the situation for 83 of these species is bleak, with many facing extinction over this century, says Professor Steve Williams.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/lost-in-the-clouds-20120528-1zf0x.html#ixzz1wECRAvuC

Our fragile ocean under scrutiny

AUSTRALIA could be on the brink of making marine history.

In the near future, the Federal Government will decide on the creation of a marine park system around Australia, including whether to establish the world's largest highly protected marine national park in the Coral Sea.

 http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/our-fragile-ocean-under-scrutiny/story-fn6ck620-1226370372917

 

 

A really big thanks to everyone who came along to the Five Leaf Eco-Awards Presentation Ceremony today. It was a great event and enjoyed by all. Most of all - congratulations to our awardees!

Five Leaf Eco-Awards Presentation Ceremony this Sat in Perth!

4pm for a 4:30pm start.

St Luke's Anglican Parish Mosman Park, 20 Monument Street.

If you care about church greening and you're in Perth - be there!

New World Environment Day Resources Available

For resources to help plan services around the 5th of June (World Environment Day), see: http://www.unitingjustice.org.au/environment/information-and-action-resources/item/846-world-environment-day-2012-resources