Archive for January 2020
Australian Bushfires and Climate Change: There is Hope for the Future
#burningplatformforclimatechange Part 4 The media is filled with criticisms about what has or hasn’t been done to address climate change, and how difficult it will be to turn things around. Everywhere you look, there is more and more dispair about the future. With so many challenges ahead , it can be distressing, overwhelming and sometimes…
Read MoreAustralian Fires and Climate Change: How to influence bigger changes
# burningplatformforclimatechange Part 3 A little history The name John Snow is famous for more than Game of Thrones. In 1854, Dr John Snow took unpopular action and stopped an epidemic. Its a famous public health story, and it roughly goes like this: In the midst of a cholera epidemic, John Snow became convinced that…
Read MoreAustralian Fires and Climate Change – Its Personal. What Can I Do?
#burningplatformforclimatechange Part 2 . Its Personal. What Can I Do? Mogo is an Australian town that thought it would never burn. With natural springs and a lush surrounds, they thought they were safe. But on New Years Eve, they were proven wrong. Their town burned to the ground. Most of us in Australia know many…
Read MoreAustralian Fires and Climate Change – what the world is saying and what we should do.
#burningplatformforclimatechange Part One: The Burning Platform for Climate Change. Australia has literally become the burning platform for climate change. Our catastrophic raging fires are front and centre internationally. I’ve read perspectives from The New York Times (US), The BBC world news (UK), Le Monde (Fr), and DeutscheWelle (Ger) and the perspectives are similar. Whilst they…
Read MoreThe Compassionate Press Online Launch
#globalcompassion Hey there, its Lisa here one of the creators and editors from the Compassionate Press. If you have landed here from our intro video – welcome to the team – we need people like you – people who want to make a difference in the world and are looking for a way to do…
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