OzSpirit: Taking Action

	Attend a Concert Live Earth will use the global reach of music to engage people on a mass scale to combat our climate crisis. Bringing together more than 150 of the world's top musicians for 24-hours of music, Live Earth will stage 7 concerts across all 7 continents on 7/7/07. The Australian concert will be held at Aussie Stadium in Sydney and tickets are available at: www.ticketek.com. More...
	Sing a Song Opposition environment spokesman Peter Garrett has produced his top 10 favourite shower songs that come in under four minutes, to encourage Australians to take shorter showers. He has vowed to "save the planet one song at a time" with his shower playlist. So sing a song and save water at the same time! More...
	Switch to Green Power In Australia 80% of our electricity is generated by burning coal, a factor which significantly contributes to greenhouse gas pollution. If all Australians switched today to energy produced by sun, wind, water and waste (Green Power), Australia's total greenhouse pollution would be cut by 30%. That's the equivalent of more than 40 million cars! Can we afford not to act? Church Resources is currently offering everyone access to Australia's cheapest 100% accredited Green Power. To be part of this bulk purchase, or to find out more about Green Power call: Mark McManus at Church Resources on 1300 CHURCH (248 724) or E-mail mmcmanuus For more information on green power go to www.greenpower.gov.au
	Shop for eco friendly products Eco superstores such as Neco, and Easy Being Green provide comprehensive goods and services for businesses and individuals that make shopping for eco friendly products fun and easy. They offer great information on how you can participate in carbon trading solutions, and how to access environmental rebates. For Neco go to: www.neco.com.au For Easy Being Green go to: www.easybeinggreen.com.au
	Learn More The Social Action Office of the Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes Queensland and the Catholic Justice and Peace commission of Brisbane recently held a conference aimed at helping Christians to take action on climate change. To learn about the impact of climate change and the reasons why we should be responding to Climate Change go to www.sao.clriq.org.au
	Live simply AND be cool and glamorous! Why not hold a "B-Worn Again" fashion show, presenting and auctioning glamorous and trendy second hand clothing, collected from op shops around your town or city? That's exactly what students in the UK did to help raise funds for our Caritas collegues at Cafod www.bigdeal.cafod.org.uk These students wanted to show the throw-away nature of our 'spend, spend' society. Using only 'second hand' finds at the event they proved we can recycle clothes as well as household waste - and look great too! Why not hold a similar event at your own school, community, or university. For a list of local Saint Vincent DePaul stores go to www.vinnies.org.au
	Tell a friend Tell your friends and colleagues about your energy saving ideas and multiply the effect of your action by forwarding them this publication To do this, use the 'Tell a friend' form at the right hand side of this page.

Prayer
During Reconciliation Week take time to look at this resource titled
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and Prayer for reconciliation which has been put together by The National Council for Churches Australia
www.ncca.org.au

Our Colleagues at Cafod in the UK have put together a great resource of prayers for the environment. More...

	Plant for the Planet The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched a major worldwide tree planting campaign. Under the Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign, people, communities, business and industry, civil society organizations and governments are encouraged to enter tree planting pledges online with the objective of planting at least one billion trees worldwide during 2007. Commit to Action - Join the Billion Tree Campaign! More...
	Alert the Government The world's foremost climate science body has concluded, in a landmark new report, that humankind has the technology to stop a climate catastrophe--but only with bold government action. Avaaz is sending its global petition to national leaders around the world--along with personalized messages from citizens of every country on earth. Sign the petition demanding that our leaders listen to the scientists. More...
	Preserve biodiversity Australia is one of twelve countries identified as biodiversily rich however conserving biodiversity is one of the major environmental problems facing Australia today. For our Indigenous peoples this is of particular concern. 22 May 2007 is the International day of Biodiversity. On this day take action on an issue that is threatening the Indigenous people in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Click here - 40 Days of Action Sheets

Clean up Australia
Sixteen years ago an 'average Australian bloke' by the name of Ian Kiernan had a simple idea to make a difference in his own backyard - Sydney Harbour.
This simple idea has now become the nation's largest community-based environmental event, Clean Up Australia Day. To read Ian's story and find out how Clean Up Australia works with communities to clean up, fix up and conserve our environment go to
www.cleanup.org.au

Caritas Australia: Supporting environmental sustainability
Caritas Australia is committed to working towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) including MDG 7 which is about ensuring environmental sustainability. By caring for our earth we are caring for all people. To find out more about Caritas Australia's work in promoting environmental sustainability and what you can do go to:
www.caritas.org.au

Creative uses for old CD's
Do you have piles of old CD'd stacked in a corner or gathering dust on a bookshelf? TechEBlog has posted the top 5 most creative uses for old CD's which highlights some pretty clever ideas for recycling unused or damaged CDs. More...