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Just transitions and community-led planning researcher, strategic and service designer, design activist, native plant gardener, sea swimmer, music lover. She/her Ph.D. https://www.kimberleycrofts.com/
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The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has put out a call for applications for a share of $46.3 million in grants to deploy community batteries across Australia

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Utterly devastating. These poor babies and their families

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SolarShift: Turning electric water heaters into megawatt batteries — final report from a UNSW team, funded through Race for 2030. Their modelling is open source ✅ and they’re developing a customer roadmap with equitable energy transitions in mind ✅✅ www.racefor2030.com.au/project/sola...

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Australian scientists, now is your chance to comment on a major restructuring of Australian Research Council's grant schemes. 🧪

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Industry body launches new information blitz targeting Australians who are “susceptible to misinformation” from anti-renewable campaigns

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get close friends and fam off fascist platforms, or at least to set up the alternatives so they can explore options. WhatsApp--> Signal X--> BlueSky, Mastodon IG--> Pixelfed, BlueSky, Flashes, Tumblr FB --> no need ;) TikTok--> ?

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation 🔗 www.404media.co/all-50-state...

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If the trial is successful and Switzerland rolls out solar panels on its entire rail network, they could generate 2% of the country’s total energy needs. A project to watch out for. The article worth a read for the installation and maintenance innovations so far.

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Really worrying conclusions.

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Fossil fuel producers want to keep gas in Australian homes and they're fighting a global campaign to stop a phaseout. Me in @reneweconomy.com.au this morning.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy, according to a new study published in the academic journal Environmental Research Communications. yubanet.com/enviro/study...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The podcast of this will be up soon I hope. Sounds like a good story to learn from.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Making this helped me realise that we need community-owned/co-op alternatives for everything - we need whole supply chains. We need raw materials, designers, factories, logistics, marketing... all working for people, not profit 💚

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The Australien Government has made an ad to announce the 2025 election, and it's surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

Just spotted Buzz and Woody in the wild. #TimelineCleanse

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I signed up to Energy Locals because they were advertised as a community based pro-solar electricity supplier. Now I'm in back in the market for an ethical community based pro-solar electricity supplier. Is there one available to Syd/NSW households?

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

For many years, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef agency has provided weekly briefings throughout summer months. Last year, the briefings consistently downplayed the worst due-off of corals ever recorded. This summer, the briefings have been quietly silenced. And the media sleeps on.

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Fossil fuel company exec: So hear me out, could this ruminant methane capture device be scaled up to coal mine size?

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This is the story of how the town of Hay has crafted their own principles for how they as a community should benefit from renewable development. Seriously the most inspiring thing to come out of the energy transition in the last year. More of this please!

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Boosting this- There’s an opportunity for a highly performing student to do a #PhD in my lab. Australian domestic or onshore international students only. Study will be in #ecology, and may involve camera or drone imagery, AI, vegetation analysis. Dm me by 1st March. And pls share! 🧪 #AI

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An sure it’s not at all significant that the censored tapestry is part of an exhibition titled “Where the Gods Cannot be Fooled”

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In this ongoing series delving into the Coalition's plans should they be elected, today we're looking at 3. Affordable Housing. [It is worth pointing out from the outset that a) this is complex issue; and b) I'm a long-term renter in Sydney's inner west. ] A thread... 🧵 #auspol

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