The Vital Few

If you're trying to figure out how to divest from fossil fuels, here's an easy way to send a letter to your superannuation fund, to find out where they stand on fossil fuel investments.  Take a look at The Vital Few's website.

March against Monsanto rally

There was a great turnout at the rally yesterday and some very inspirational speakers, even the weather turned out to be pleasant.  The girls and I have just had a little bit of fun in the supermarket, putting stickers on foods that contain GMO's, but are unlabelled as such, because it's not currently a requirement.  It was a good lesson for Evie to learn about GMO's in a simplified way, and I'm thankful that we rarely buy these foods.  No more Betty Crocker icing for us!  Evie put most of her stickers on Coke and Pepsi products, and Carnation condensed/evaporated milk products.
There's a great article here about how Agroecological farming can double food production in 10 years.  We don't need GMO's to feed the world, we have enough food already.  We just need to fix the distribution, and stop the wastage.

March against Monsanto

I'll be marching against Monsanto on Saturday (Melbourne, 2-4pm, outside the State Library), and this is why

Will you be marching?

Bill McKibben on Lateline tonight

Bill McKibben from 350.org (The aim of 350 parts CO2 per million or below) will be interviewed by Tony Jones on Lateline at 10:30pm tonight on ABC (Australia).  This is ahead of his "Do the maths" tour of Australia in early June.  Andrew and I will be going to his presentation in Melbourne on the 7th June, you can get your tickets here.  And a great article about it here.

Let your opinion be heard

Just a couple of petition-y things if you'd like to put your name to them:

The people's RET review (renewable energy target)

From the website:

Big power companies and lobby groups who want to slow the development of renewables in Australia are using the RET review process to try and reduce the renewable energy target.
Without the same money and lobbying power as these industry groups it can be very hard for ordinary citizens to have our voices heard.
The People’s RET review will make sure that Australians have a chance to tell our decision makers what kind of energy future we want. Vote Now!

Change.org has a petition to sign if you're fed up with the major supermarkets selling cheap milk, which has prompted 45 dairies in QLD alone to shut down.   We buy Jonesy's milk from our local green grocer, to support independent dairies.

Coles - Up the price of generic brand milk to a sustainable rate of return for all. 

 

No Harvey No!

This ad has been blocked from airing on TV, so you'll just have to go here to watch it:

http://noharveyno.net/

I don't shop there anyway, but definitely won't be now!