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TGoG Podcast 053 – A Gen Y’s Perspective of Sustainable Living with Amy Webber

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TGOG podcast logo new 1400 v2It is great to get a different perspective from the younger generation. Today we talk to Amy Webber who last appeared in Episode 10, some four years ago.

Since finishing university, she pursued a career as a high school teacher and heads up the Humanities department of a local school and is passionate about educating kids.  I am very proud of her.

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She has a very interesting view of Gen Y and the Millennial generations with respect to climate change and energy descent.

My daughter also makes me blush during this episode when she tells me that she is very excited to see me finally present at the Sustainable Living Festival, and proud of all the things I have done.  Enough to make this old bloke tear up.

On a side note, this post is #1500.  That is quite an personal achievement, which I am quite proud of.  Who would have thought when I started it, that this blog would grow so large!

 

Amy and Ben at Armageddon

Amy and Ben at Armegeddon – Melbourne 2013

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Coal Seam Gas Twisted Truth Campaign

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Coal Seam Gas miners are trying a different tactic.  They are stooping to new lows by offering sponsored posts to environmental bloggers.

Typical CSG field 

I suspected that something was up when I received this email the other day;

From: Tessa Dhanaraj
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 [3:16] PM
To: gxxxxxofgavin@gmail.com
Subject: Project Query for The Greening of Gavin

Hi Gavin!
I recently came across The Greening of Gavin and am interested in working with you to create a post about natural gas. If you’re interested, please let me know your rates for a sponsored post! Thank you.

Kind Regards,

Tessa Dhanaraj 

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Well it turns out that this is the Coal Seam Gas mining companies way of spreading mis-information. So as a service to all eco/green/simple living bloggers, I post the PR company email, just in case you fall for the rouse.

Linda Woodrow in her usual elegant style picked up on this after reading a fellow bloggers “sponsored post”. Here is an extract of what Linda had to say on the matter over at this post titled CSG, LPG, LNG, and Deliberate Attempts to Confuse the Issue;

“A blog I read regularly posted a “sponsored” post yesterday about “natural gas”. It wasn’t in her usual writing style, and I strongly suspect she was set up. 

LPG, LNG, CSG – I don’t blame you if you are totally confused. That’s what the mining companies are relying on. A quick pea shuffle and they will be allowed to extract a quick, large profit and leave a fracked countryside. There is a very, very well funded PR campaign of misinformation going on to rename coal seam gas as ”natural gas from coal seams”, shortened to “natural gas”, and at the same time to convince the voting, protesting, blockading public that natural gas is clean and green and in short supply. I suspect this is part of the next stage in the campaign – sponsored posts on blogs that people who could be expected to care about the quality of our food producing land, and our environment, read. It’s cynical, ugly, and how big budget advertising messes with democracy.”

The fact is that real natural gas is not in short supply.  There is at least 60 years supply at current consumption rates here on the east coast of Australia.  CSG companies are attempting to mount a scare campaign in the form of a perceived shortage so as to expand production, drill more wells, and export the stuff overseas where they will get more profits at the expense of the environment and prime agricultural land.
Who thinks that this method of misinformation is a new low for fossil fuel companies?

Call To Country

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Our country will end up being just one big hole in the ground.  Grant another coal mining licence here, grant another Coal Seam Gas (CSG) well there.  When will it stop?

When our climate gets so hot that other countries will force sanctions upon us to stop the export of these fossil fuels?  When our water tables become so polluted that we cannot drink it?

Both fossil fuels are equally as polluting, and don’t let anyone try and pull the wool over your eyes and tell you that CSG is less carbon intensive than coal.  It is on par.  CSG is not the miracle transition fuel that the industry is trying to create a social licence for.

So, why are we still letting this happen? 

I don’t know the answers, but I do know that there is a failure of leadership.

Things have to change.  If our so called leaders won’t do anything, it is time for people to act strongly.

Great organisations like Lock The Gate Alliance and the Victorian Wind Alliance are doing a fantastic job of spreading the word.

To read more about this campaign, visit http://www.lockthegate.org.au/calltocountry

So I ask you to get behind these campaigns, participate where you can, or donate if you cannot, and lets make our country a better place to live in.