Mark Watson
Mark Watson
Standing before an audience of 1500 people at Melbourne Town Hall, comedian Mark Watson faced the unenviable task of talking about climate change and being funny while doing it. more »
Jim Thomson
Jim Thompson
In 1958, at a lava field near Hawaii’s imposing Mauna Loa volcano, scientists began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The same year, in November, electrical contractor Jim Thomson was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. more »
Jocelyn Uibo
Jocelyn Uibo
Opposite Groote Eylandt, on the mainland of east Arnhem Land, lies the Aboriginal community of Numbulwar. The waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Rose River are a major food source for the community’s 1200 residents but they are also culturally significant, featuring prominently in dances and stories. more »
Nick Towle
Nick Towle
Over the space of a week, doctor Nick Towle typically covers between 75 and 100km as he cycles to work along the busy Bass Highway in Burnie, north-west Tasmania.
Nick’s route gives him spectacular views of Bass Strait but also a unique perspective on the impacts humans are having on the environment. more »
Vanessa Morris
Vanessa Morris
Growing up in Sydney, mother and former ABC broadcaster Vanessa Morris had an early introduction to solar power. A solar expert lived around the corner and, from childhood, Vanessa felt solar was the future. more »
Alex Kanaar
Alex Kanaar
It was at Shoalhaven Rugby Park on the NSW south coast that Alex Kanaar first took to a rugby field. Alex was 12 when he started playing for ‘Shoalies’. His talents as a lock and flanker soon led to him playing for Illawarra and then NSW Country. At the same time, Alex was playing rugby through his school, Oxley College, in Bowral. more »
Linh Do
Linh Do
In 2006, 15-year-old secondary school student Linh Do decided she wanted to empower young people to make a difference to climate change. The result was Change a Million Light Bulbs, a local project that encouraged people to change their incandescent light bulbs to LED or compact fluorescent light bulbs. more »
Telling the Truth
In November 2006, former US vice president Al Gore traveled to Australia to train everyday Australians to present the slide show made famous in the movie An Inconvenient Truth. This was the beginning of The Climate Project – Australia.
In the first 17 months of the Project – the 250 diverse individuals who make up The Climate Project –Australia, have made 125,000 presentations throughout the country.
Each person who volunteered to give their time to become a climate change presenter has their own unique story. This is a film which documents seven.
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