In this guest post, Tweed Shire Council Sustainability Education Officer Jane Moad says thinking small is the key to kick-starting a successful community climate project. In my time working with community groups, businesses and colleagues on a range of change projects, the challenge is almost never “big picture thinking” or coming up with a vision. It’s getting started that is the hardest part. Too many people feel like they need to solve climate change by tackling the proje

With food systems responsible for about 30% of our greenhouse gas emissions, there’s no doubt that what goes in your mouth has a major impact on the planet. Conal Hanna explains how to get started. Growing up, meat was on the dinner table in our household every night. Spag Bol. Chops. Stirfrys. Not to mention ham or devon (remember that?) on school sandwiches most days. It wasn’t until years later, when my wife went back to uni to study vet science, that we began re-evalu

Weeds! We've all heard of them, many of us have battled them in our gardens, but few of us consider their relevance to climate change. Ecologist, bush regenerator and local volunteer Lucia Perry has some tips. What are weeds? In basic terms, a weed is a plant that is out of place, unwanted, and has some impact on that plants and animals that we do want in that place. Plants become weeds when they pose a threat to whatever is happening around them. For example, a plant that sp

Thinking about global warming is scary but ignoring it will not make the problem go away, writes TweedCAN chair Conal Hanna. In an article on The Conversation in 2019, academics Iain Walker and Zoe Leviston laid out three types of climate change deniers. Those who don’t believe the world is warming; People who believe it’s warming but the causes aren't human-induced; By far the biggest group. Those of us who don't deny the climate science, but are in denial about what it mean