BCCAN is nearly 10! Bathurst Community Climate Action Network was registered as an incorporated association in May, 2007.
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At that time, hope for serious action around climate change was at an all-time high.
The former vice president of the United States, Al Gore, had starred in a powerful documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, that was mobilising people across the globe.
For Kevin Rudd – remember Kevin Oh Seven? – this was the greatest moral challenge of our generation.
Locally, people were keen to work out how to think globally but act locally. The movement has hit some big road bumps over the last decade, including Rudd’s sudden ditching of his own policy and a toxic “denialism” that seeks to obstruct social understanding of scientific consensus.
But we’ve kept going regardless. We’re having a little birthday celebration but we’re also taking an afternoon to reflect on our first 10 years and plan the next.
This event will be held on Saturday, May 6 at 2pm at Rahamim, 34 Busby Street. If you support the need for action on climate change, no matter how small or large, you’ll be very welcome.
Movie night
THE following Tuesday, we’ll be showing the film Guarding The Galilee, presented by actor Michael Caton, about the campaign to stop the giant Adani coalmine in Queensland.
This will be at 6.15pm, again at Rahamim.
Art starters
I HAD a lot of fun making a tiny Shopping Bag Bible for the current Waste to Art exhibition.
Filmy white shopping bags reminded me of the thin, translucent paper of old-style Bibles.
There’s also a great piece by Will Hazzard showing the damage plastic bags are causing to our marine life, and an amazing medieval castle made out of polystyrene packaging.
Get along to the Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre (upstairs) this week to check it out!
Lindsay’s Leaf
FINALLY, a shout-out to BCCAN member Lindsay Cox, who has been a keen supporter of renewable energy over this past decade.
This week, he bought himself a Nissan Leaf, which just might be the first fully electric off-the-shelf car in Bathurst (if we are wrong about this, let us know!).
Lindsay took a previous president of BCCAN, John Kellett, and me for a spin around the block the other day.
It was a gloriously quiet and emission-free ride.