Take Action against Climate Change
Measure your Carbon footprint
Say No to Carbon Offset Schemes
The calculators accessible from this site will allow you to calculate the eco-footprint for your household, office or school.
The Australian Greenhouse Calculator
The Australian Greenhouse Calculator is a program that will calculate your yearly greenhouse gas emissions based on the information you provide. The calculator will also compare your greenhouse emissions with that of a 'typical' house and a 'green' house.
Have your voice heard
Suggestions for school action
Take Some Personal Action
Follow the suggestions made at the Sustainable Living Tasmania's Climate Change Site
at Home WWF 
Download :The Guide to Action for Youth, published by TakingITGlobal Canada.(PDF. 3.5 MB)
The Need for Urgent Action
Australia's Wildlife- Australian species and climate Change
Climate Change Solutions for Australia 2008
Accredited Greenpower Providers
Waterwise- fun tips as to how you can help to manage water more efficiently.
Carbon offset schemes: a quick and dirty overview
Carbon offset schemes have some problems that make them ineffective at best, and potentially dangerous:
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Carbon offset companies are unregulated at present. There is no authorised body to check how they spend your money, and there are many, many examples of unethical operators and scams, especially when profit ( for them) is involved.
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Offset programs create the illusion that you can neutralise your carbon emissions so that they don't matter — even though your emissions contribute to making the planet warmer right now!
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By using inaccurate ways of calculating emissions and low per-ton valuations of carbon, offset programs foster a belief that the cost of our high-consuming lifestyles is really very low.
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Offset programs rarely make any serious attempt to encourage us to change our behaviour — for example, to not fly, to not purchase unnecessary stuff — and thereby reduce our carbon emissions.
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Tree planting projects are fundamentally flawed on many different levels and cannot be relied upon to take up meaningful amounts of carbon, especially not in the short term — which is when we need it most.
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Some carbon offset schemes use tree plantations and renewable energy projects in impoverished nations to offset emissions. There are many examples of these having very negative effects on local people and their environments (e.g. through planting non-indigenous trees).