Welcome to our very first Inside Scoop with Environment Victoria CEO, Kelly O’Shanassy and Campaigns Director, Mark Wakeham. Each month we’ll bring you the latest insider news, political discussions and campaign information straight from the office of the CEO.
This edition Kelly and Mark discuss the recent state budget, the big political issues for the environment in 2011 and the upcoming Doorknock Day.
Welcome to our very first Inside Scoop with Environment Victoria CEO, Kelly O’Shanassy and Campaigns Director, Mark Wakeham. Each month we’ll bring you the latest insider news, political discussions and campaign information straight from the office of the CEO.
This edition Kelly and Mark discuss the recent state budget, the big political issues for the environment in 2011 and the upcoming Doorknock Day.
For more info on the 2010 Victorian state election hop here: environmentvictoria.org.au...
And to help you make an informed vote on Saturday, 27 November, Victoria's leading environment groups (including yours truely) have assessed the current policies of the major state political parties. Check out the results here: environmentvictoria.org.au/​content/​state-election-scorecard
In the short months since the new Coalition Government came to power, they've been taking the environment backwards.
Listen to our CEO, Kelly O'Shanassy talk about the new government's first few months in office and help us turn things around by asking our new Premier: Where's your plan Ted? Send the Premier a letter asking him: Not Happy Ted. Where's your plan? http://www.environmentvictoria.org.au/ted
Young migrants and refugees might be new to Australia but they are often passionate about the environment. That's why Environment Victoria is working with them to help them make a difference.
Through our Multicultural Leaders in Sustainability program, we provide young migrants and refugees with the leadership skills they need to help their communities live more sustainably.
We take them on a four month training program in leadership and sustainability. Then we help them run their own sustainability projects, taking the message straight to migrant and refugee communities.
In 2010 we're in Brimbank in Melbourne's west, delivering MLS with the Centre for Multicultural Youth. Meet our young participants and hear about their sustainability projects in our new film.
We have seen huge changes in rainfall and water supply over the past decade. As our climate dries, competition for water continues to increase, and our rivers get lower and lower. Some have even stopped flowing. But rivers with enough water are the key to water security.
Healthy, flowing rivers will mean we can still expect clean water to come out of the taps in our homes. And rivers with enough water to sustain themselves equal prosperous regional communities. So what is our state government doing to help deliver a future where water supplies are safe and rivers are healthy?
They’ve been building expensive desalination plants and pipelines. Promising water for our rivers that they never deliver. And fighting to maintain an irrigation system and old ways of doing business, in drought-affected areas that need a new vision for their economic future. But they’re missing the point: ensuring our rivers have enough water in them to sustain themselves is the fastest and most economical way to…
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