Here’s a Christmas present. Check out the trailer to this interesting documentary about Christmas Lights (and why people do it.)
Video:
Christmas Lights documentary trailer. The film is on the ABC tonight at 10pm.

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Climate crisis, what climate crisis?
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Have a listen to our Christmas lights podcast. In it we hear from people with ‘over-the-top’ Christmas lights on their houses to find out why they’ve done it.

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Lots of people dream of making a ’sea change’ to escape the rat race of the city. Some people even do it.
But how many leave with the intention of living sustainably? To live on the land, grow their own food, generate their own power and water, and even restore their new patch closer [...]

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The car lobby is given the right of reply in this podcast. I speak with Alan Evans, President of the NRMA, Australia’s largest motoring body. He says the GetUp organisation need to get real. To build public transport to all parts of Sydney and into the country is simply not going to [...]

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This commercial takes the p**s out of the government’s FuelWatch scheme. Made by GetUp to make the point that we need long term planning for a sustainable transport system.
Watch the FuelWatch commercial.

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Here in Australia we know we should be watching how much water we use for things like showers, gardens and washing cars.
But really, it’s a drop in the ocean compared to how much water goes into the products we consume.
Now an Australian academic has proposed that the amount of water used in making food and [...]

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Above is a link to a great video on YouTube. It provides a good, simple explanation of how and why old-fashioned commerce is damaging the planet. (Part 1 is first up. Click on the ‘menu’ to bring up the other parts after that. Each is a few minutes long.)
What’s the answer? Bring on the [...]

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