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ReEnergise Brisbane: Climate Calling

With debate starting soon in Canberra on the emissions trading scheme bill, our politicians need to hear the voices of the people demanding they do the right thing.

Will you join us in Brisbane to call for clean-energy jobs and a safe climate?

What: Climate Calling event
Where: QPSU Call Centre, Level 5, 96 Albert Street, Brisbane City 4000
When: Thursday, 12th November 2009, 2:00pm-4:30pm, OR 5:30pm-8pm

Bring: a mobile phone, with credit for some phone calls.
We will provide: training, a strategy presentation, materials, drinks and snacks, and the chance to have your voice heard!

RSVP to one of the times below, so that we know you are coming and can call you over then next couple of days with extra information. We recommend you come to the earlier time if you can: that's when we'll have the best chance of speaking with the MPs in person.

See you there!

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Key facts about ReEnergise Australia

Q: How does the climate crisis link to jobs?
Wind farms don’t build themselves, and solar panels don’t install themselves. The CSIRO reckons there are 230,000 – 340,000 Australian jobs to be created if we move to renewable energy.

Q: What sort of jobs are clean energy jobs?
The gearboxes in wind-farms are very similar to the gearboxes made for Holden cars. Wind turbines are up to 80m tall; that’s a lot of sheet metal to be made and welded. And every solar panel needs to be screwed into someone’s roof and installed by an electrician.
Of course all this work is going to mean thousands of project managers, industrial designers, architects, finance workers. And then of course there’s the scientists in research and development and all the people who will teach new skills to workers in TAFEs and colleges and on the job training.
Check out www.cleanenergyjobs.com.au for videos and examples

Q: Where do these figures come from?
There are currently three major reports that we know of which explain how responding the climate crisis will create thousands of jobs:
CSIRO – Growing the Green Collar Economy 2008
The Australian Conservation Foundation and ACTU – Green Gold Rush 2009
The Climate Institute – Clean Energy Jobs and Investment in Regional Australia 2009

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