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Take your next steps to go electric with Saul Griffith
Rewiring Australia’s Saul Griffith shows you how to take your next steps to go electric. Open their new Electric Saul website, type in your postcode and you can see what to upgrade next, how to understand the numbers and how to get started on (or continue!) your electrifying journey at home.
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Concerned about the rise of data centres? Submit your concerns to the government’s Environment Committee
Concerned about the proliferation of energy- and water-intensive data centres around Australia and want to have your say? You can make a submission to the Environment and Communications References Committee raising your issues and making recommendations about how they should be regulated – submissions close on the 1st September 2026. Pro tip: the Climate Council’s submission is…
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Join Ethinvest for screenings of the new Future Council movie in Melbourne and Sydney this month
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The solar revolution is well underway despite Trump’s best efforts: New podcast about Bill McKibben’s book “Here Comes the Sun”
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Shareholder pressure gets Coles to recognise salmon farming threat to the Maugean Skate
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The Justice and Equity Centre’s First Nations legal trainee program funds Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander law graduates to train in civil and criminal law
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What not to do when your favourite fashion brand is caught in a worker scandal
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Ethinvest to host Tearfund and ActionAid experts for a webinar on the impact of international aid cuts and how Australian aid charities are responding
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South Australia leads the world with ban on plastic fish while global plastic treaty talks fails
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Red Cross launches EmergencyRedi community workshops around the country ahead of summer
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Legal stoush between Commonwealth and NSW over crucial water flows into Murray-Darling Basin avoided
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The Australian Democracy Network has now trained more than 100 people from a wide range of organisations in government advocacy.
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Join Ethinvest for screenings of the new Future Council movie in Melbourne and Sydney this month
The Ethinvest teams in Melbourne and Sydney will host drinks and screenings of Damon Gameau’s new film, the Future Council, following eight children on the ultimate school excursion to meet powerful leaders across Europe to find solutions to our greatest environmental challenges. Please join us and bring a friend who might like to learn more…
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The solar revolution is well underway despite Trump’s best efforts: New podcast about Bill McKibben’s book “Here Comes the Sun”
The Ethinvest team were inspired by a new podcast with author and activist Bill McKibben about his new book, Here Comes the Sun. The podcast, the Giant Fireball that Could Save Us with David Sirota of Lever Time, offers real hope about the speed of the move to clean energy worldwide. Bill McKibben, author of…
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Shareholder pressure gets Coles to recognise salmon farming threat to the Maugean Skate
Big supermarket Coles Group Limited (ASX: COL) has publicly recognised the threat that salmon farming in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour poses to the endangered Maugean Skate after a year of sustained shareholder pressure by investment company SIX, Save the Skate campaign partners and shareholders including a number of active Ethinvest investors. The campaign effort now turns…
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The Justice and Equity Centre’s First Nations legal trainee program funds Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander law graduates to train in civil and criminal law
The Justice and Equity Centre (JEC, formerly the Public Interest Advocacy Centre) funds a unique program allowing two Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander law graduates to train over two years through its ongoing Shopfront Youth Legal Centre program in civil and criminal law, cultivating the next generation of social justice lawyers. Five Aboriginal graduates have…
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What not to do when your favourite fashion brand is caught in a worker scandal
Your favourite fashion brand has hit the headlines, and it’s not good. Here’s how we can stand up for justice and drive lasting change in the fashion industry. Stories of worker exploitation continue to rise across the global fashion supply chain, with accounts of garment workers facing unsafe conditions, low wages and denial of basic…
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Ethinvest to host Tearfund and ActionAid experts for a webinar on the impact of international aid cuts and how Australian aid charities are responding
Please join Ethinvest for a free webinar on 18 September, 1 pm, with Mary Gaitho of the aid organisation Tearfund and Michelle Higelin at ActionAid to discuss the impact of deep aid cuts by the US, UK and Europe and how their organisations are working to fill the void around the world. Overall aid from…
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South Australia leads the world with ban on plastic fish while global plastic treaty talks fails
South Australia has taken a pioneering step to reduce single-use plastic waste by banning fish-shaped soy sauce containers under new legislation now in effect as global talks to develop a landmark treaty to end plastic pollution failed again. South Australia’s new law targets small polyethylene soy sauce “fish” containers known as shoyu-tai, often bundled with…
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Red Cross launches EmergencyRedi community workshops around the country ahead of summer
The Australian Red Cross is empowering communities nationwide with the launch of its EmergencyRedi workshops, designed to enhance disaster resilience through practical and psychological preparedness for a wide range of disasters from extreme heat and fires to floods and blackouts. These flexible, interactive workshops are grounded in the award-winning RediPlan, a comprehensive household emergency plan…
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Legal stoush between Commonwealth and NSW over crucial water flows into Murray-Darling Basin avoided
A legal dispute between the Commonwealth and New South Wales (NSW) governments looked to see the suspension of vital environmental water flows into the Murray-Darling Basin but in mid-September, NSW rushed through legal changes to end the dispute. The New South Wales government had suspended flows earlier this month amid uncertainty over whether environmental water…
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The Australian Democracy Network has now trained more than 100 people from a wide range of organisations in government advocacy.
The Australian Democracy Network (ADN), which runs Government Relations Masterclasses to build the capability of not-for-profit advocates to engage effectively with government, has now passed its 100 advocates trained milestone with participants from around the country working on issues from effective health and disability care to climate change and the right to protest. Getting our…