Border’s concern about climate change hit record high in 2019

On 29 January 2020, WATCH produced the following media release: 2019 was Australia’s hottest and driest year on record, heralding Australia’s longest bushfire season. Locally records were also broken, with Border Mail letters to the editor on climate change hitting an all-time high and signalling strong community support for climate action. Wodonga Albury Toward Climate…

Record-breaking ‘die in’ outside Sussan Ley’s office

A record-breaking 2000 people ‘died’ outside Sussan Ley’s office in Albury during the global climate strike on Friday 20 September 2019. Poetry, music, church bells, chants and even a phone call direct to Scott Morrison’s office featured during the protest, but the highlight was the minute’s silence during the somber ‘die-in’ on Kiewa Street.  …

Global climate strike coming soon

WATCH has been hosting climate actions for a dozen years and know this Friday’s Global Climate Strike will be the Border’s biggest ever! Locally and nationally it has the support of Australia’s four big banks, the Anglican Church, Uniting Church, Pope Francis, Charles Sturt University, Scots School Albury and many other schools and businesses. The…

Border Mail photo of Paul Scannell and Lizette Salmon

January 2019: Albury’s hottest month ever

On Friday 1st February 2019, WATCH released the following media release: Record breaking January temperatures coupled with low rainfall have caused significant stress on local plants including death of less established trees, burnt leaves, defoliation of deciduous trees, increased eucalypt limb falls and premature fruit drop. Albury’s January temperatures were the hottest on record, with…

Storage of electricity

Living Lightly article published in The Border Mail on 4/4/18, by WATCH member Bruce Key. Renewable energy is very popular, but it has a big drawback – its intermittency.  This raises the question of how to store electricity so that it is available when required. The obvious answer is batteries, but it is difficult to…

WATCH missing in action?

Visitors to our website might have noticed fewer posts this past year or so. This is because many of us have been focused on the Adani Carmichael coal mine. If the mine proceeds it would be Australia’s single biggest contributor to climate change and the equivalent of adding a new country with emissions 1.5 times…