Torch relay burns for climate answers
The Cairns Post
11/08/08
From Cairns, runners will carry four sun and wind powered torches across Australia eventually ending up at Parliament House in Canberra on August 12. The relay is organised by activist group GetUp, who are calling for the Federal Government to put in an “Olympic size” effort to curb carbon emissions.
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx
Climate relay
TTN
Hobart Mercury
26/08/08
JUST months after the Olympic torch made its way around the world, a "climate torch" is traveling around the country to teach people about climate change.
Climate relay
TTN
Daily Telegraph
26/08/08
A climate torch is travelling around the country to teach people about climate change, encouraging them to take action. Sydney's Bondi Beach was chosen as the ideal backdrop to embark on a journey. The relay was organised by GetUp, which is an independent, grass-roots community advocacy organisation giving everyday Australians opportunities to get involved, and it holds politicians accountable on important issues.
Powerful snow, Olympic stamps and climate change
TTN
Northern Territory News
26/08/08
JUST months after the Olympic torch made its way around the world, a "climate torch" is traveling around the country to teach people about climate change
Power of snow
Courier Mail
26/08/08
A climate torch is being handed around the nation to highlight climate change and to encourage people to take action. Sydney's Bondi Beach was chosen as the ideal backdrop to embark on the journey.
Climate relay
Adelaide Advertiser
26/08/08
The climate torch is travelling around the country to teach people about climate change and encourage them to take action. The relay was organised by GetUp.
Climate Torch Relay bearers wanted
Northern Rivers Echo
27/08/08
The GetUp! Climate Torch Relay will arrive in Lismore next Friday, September 5, and local organiser Alan Roberts is looking for people concerned about climate change to become torch bearers for the event.
http://www.echonews.com/index.php?page=News%20Article&article=22891&issue=357
A sure sign dam's not wanted here
Stephen O'Grady
Fraser Coast Chronicle
28/08/08
Campaigners against the proposed Traveston dam are urging residents of the Fraser Coast to help form a human sign which is likely to be a last chance to let Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett know how they feel about the controversial $1.8 billion state government dam plan. The human sign is a part of a major lobby against the dam, from September 6-7, which will also include the arrival of Get Up's climate torch in Hervey Bay.
http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3783012
Shining light on climate
Gladstone Observer
28/08/08
THE travelling Climate Torch Relay displaying the message 'halve Australia's Greenhouse Pollution by 2020' will cycle into Gladstone on Sunday morning. On its way to Parliament House the GetUp Climate Torch Relay has been travelling around Australia spreading the awareness to communities of climate change issues and to urge the Federal Government to push ahead with the Carbon Trading Scheme.
http://www.gladstoneobserver.com.au/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3783146
Brisbane rallies to save Mary River
Paul Benedek
Green Left Weekly
30/08/08
A busload of “Save the Mary River” activists from Brisbane will join an expected 1000-plus protesters to form a human chain at the location of the planned Traveston Dam on the Mary River on September 6. The rally will be part of GetUp’s climate torch relay, in support of actions to address climate change.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/765/39502
Green message lights Gladstone
Gladstone Observer
01/09/08
THE alternatively-powered Climate Torch came to Gladstone yesterday, held aloft by a succession of bearers who are concerned that carbon-based energy is destroying our planet.
http://www.gladstoneobserver.com.au/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3783308
Torch relay attracts hundreds
Peninsula News
01/09/08
More than 100 Peninsula residents and school children participated in the Getup National Climate Torch Relay on August 21. The Climate Torch Relay passed through Woy Woy, Umina and Ettalong, highlighting to participants and onlookers the need for action on climate change.
Carrying a torch for Mary
Stephen O'Grady
Fraser Coast Chronicle
03/09/08
Sam Mclean is a get up and go type of guy and this weekend the Sydney-based lobbyist will get it on at Hervey Bay for the first time.
http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3783571
'Torch relay' to protest Traveston dam
Tony Moore
Brisbane Times
04/09/08
The conservation movement's answer to the Olympic torch relay is coming to the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam site this weekend. Online community action group GetUP! is bringing its "climate torch" to the Mary River Valley in the latest protest against the State Government's proposed Traveston Crossing Dam.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/torch-relay-to-protest-traveston-dam/2008/09/03/1220121320229.html
Students push clean, green message
Guardian News
04/09/08
The students also carried a `climate torch', from the GetUp association, which symbolised a national push towards cleaner energy. The torch's fan worked on a range of clean energies, including wind, a lemon and old-fashioned muscle.
http://nambucca.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/students-push-clean-green-message/1262028.aspx
Climate torch lights way
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader
04/09/08
A GetUp spokesman said the symbolic torch to lobby for stronger climate solutions, such as a commitment to a 50 per cent carbon reduction by 2020.
Climate Torch Relay at Mullum
Byron Shire News
04/09/08
A leg of the GetUp Climate Torch Relay will be run through Mullumbimby on Saturday.
http://www.byronnews.com.au/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3783661
Climate Torch
Northern Rivers Echo
04/09/08
GetUp!'s Climate Torch Relay will come through Lismore on Fri, Sept 5. At 12pm cyclists, assembled outside Goanna Bakery, will take the torch for a fun climate safe ride around Lismore.
Climate Torch Relay rolls into Wauchope
Wauchope Gazette
4/09/2008
IT looked like an Olympic torch but was powered by a lemon and it also featured a solar panel. But the GetUp Climate Torch Relay is no less important.
http://wauchope.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/climate-torch-relay-rolls-into-wauchope/1262788.aspx
Traveston Dam protest torch arrives home
Sunshine Coast Daily
05/09/08
ONLINE community action group GetUp has emailed its 2000 Sunshine Coast members seeking support for a Climate Change Torch Relay along the Mary River this weekend in protest at the Traveston Crossing Dam. GetUp campaigner Sam McLean said the organisation had received a huge response from people wanting to get involved.
Gympie gets up for protest
The Gympie Times
05/09/08
ONE of four Get Up climate torches making their way across the country has made a quick changeover in Gympie enroute from Bundaberg to Brisbane. The torch will now play a key role over the next few days as it is passed through hundreds of protestors lobbying the detrimental impact of the proposed Traveston Crossing dam.
http://www.gympietimes.com.au/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3783793
Climate torch to tour Stawell
Stawell-Times News
05/09/2008
The local community is being encouraged to head down to Central Park and welcome the Climate Torch to Stawell. Created by Bluesky, the designers of the Sydney Olympics torch, the Climate Torch is an iconic symbol of the nation's determination to avert dangerous climate change.
http://stawell.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/climate-torch-to-tour-stawell/1263964.aspx
Climate Torch to tour Stawell
Ararat Advertiser
05/09/08
The local community is being encouraged to head down to Central Park and welcome the Climate Torch to Stawell. Created by BlueSky, the designers of the Sydney Olympics torch, the Climate Torch is an iconic symbol of the nation's determination to avert dangerous climate change.
Greens leader Senator Bob Brown blasts Mary dam project
Dot Whittington
Courier Mail
7/09/08
Arriving from Canberra to take part in the GetUp! Climate Torch Relay, Senator Brown told hundreds of protesters who gathered at the proposed dam wall site at Traveston Crossing, south of Gympie, that southeast Queensland didn't need a dam but a "great big dose of common sense".
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24304403-953,00.html
Traveston fight goes national
Dot Whittington
Sunday Mail Brisbane
07/09/08
Arriving from Canberra to take part in the GetUp! Climate Torch Relay, Senator Brown told hundreds of protesters who gathered at the proposed dam wall site at Traveston Crossing, south of Gympie, that southeast Queensland didn't need a dam but a "great big dose of common sense".
Climate change relay hits Traveston
Sunshine Coast Sunday
07/09/08
CHEERS and chants of "stop the dam" erupted from the banks of the Mary River yesterday as campaigners opposed to the project watched Greens senator Bob Brown smash through a fake dam wall at Traveston Crossing. The wall may have been artificial but the senator's symbolic action, during the Get Up Climate Change Torch Relay, epitomised the community's passion in its campaign to stop the $2.5 billion project.
Desalination EES ‘stage-managed’
Ben Courtice
Green Left Weekly
7/09/08
About 200 protesters took part in the GetUp! climate torch relay in Wonthaggi on August 30, burying their heads in the sand on the beach to symbolise the state government’s response to climate change.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/766/39552
Raising awareness
Northern Star
08/09/08
GOOD on you, GetUp, for organising the climate torch relay currently running up the coast and passing through Lismore last Friday. Bringing attention to the climate issue is a vital step in creating solutions.
Carrying the torch
Bayside Leader
09/09/08
WILD weather greeted those who took part in the Bayside leg of the GetUp
Climate Torch Relay. But the 50 participants, including 20 school students, managed to shine through - despite rain, blustery winds, salt spray and even a hailstorm.
Citrus power rules
Erin Bull
Maroondah Journal
09/09/08
A LEMON-battery powered `climate torch' on national tour was welcomed to Sassafras last week. The GetUp! Climate Torch tour, conducted by independent community advocacy organisation GetUp! Action for Australia, is traveling through rural towns and capital cities to raise awareness about climate change.
Citrus power rules
Erin Bull
Yarra Ranges Journal
09/09/08
During Wednesday's Dandenong Ranges' leg, hosted by the Upper Yarra and Dandenongs Environment Council, Yarra Ranges councillor Samantha Dunn accepted the torch on behalf of the community. "I think it's a fantastic event," Cr Dunn said. "It really helps raise awareness of climate change and gives people the opportunity to get involved.
Light shines for climate
Upper Yarra Mail
Kath Gannaway
09/09/08
Warburton environment group members joined forces to hold a torch up to carbon protection issues last week. Members of My Environment, Shire of Yarra Ranges councillor Samantha Dunn and other local community members joined members of the Wilderness Society for the Warburton leg of GetUp's National Climate Torch Relay.
Climate fear
Tania Martin
Ranges Trader Mail
09/09/08
The National Climate Torch Relay passed through Sassafras before heading to Healesville last Wednesday the 3rd of September. A parade that would rival any Olympic torch relay lined the streets of Sassafras as the solar powered torch was carried from Sherbrooke Community School to the town centre.
Climate fear
Tania Martin
Ferntree Gully Mail
09/09/08
Once the torch arrived in the centre of Sassafras, the solar-powered torch was passed on to Shire of Yarra Ranges councillor Samantha Dunn.
Holding a torch for global warming warning
Byron Shire Echo
09/09/08
The Climate Torch Relay came to Mullumbimby on September 6 where members of the local community organised a leg of the relay and acted as torch-bearers.
Light shines for climate
Kath Gannaway
Mountain Views Mail- Healesville
09/09/08
HEWI chairman Steve Meacher said the torch is on a nine-week relay, which will culminate at Parliament House in Canberra on 12 October coinciding with the presentation of the Climate Protection Bill.
Light shines for climate
Kath Gannaway
Star News Group
09/09/08
WARBURTON environment group members joined forces to hold a torch up to carbon protection issues last week. Members of My Environment, Shire of Yarra Ranges councillor Samantha Dunn and other local community members joined members of the Wilderness Society for the Warburton leg of GetUp’s National Climate Torch Relay.
http://www.starnewsgroup.com.au/story/63637
No powerline group joins climate relay
Grant Reynolds
Sunshine Coast Daily
09/09/08
DAYS after it passed through hands opposed to the Traveston Crossing Dam, the GetUp! Climate Change Torch Relay was in the Noosa hinterland yesterday to raise awareness of the plight of residents opposed to the construction of high voltage powerlines.
http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2008/sep/10/no-powerlines/
Green torch lights way
Cara Jenkin
Adelaide Advertiser
10/09/08
Young people are carrying a torch across regional South Australia to fire up action on climate change. The Climate Torch arrived in Adelaide last week for the start of a two-week tour of the state to raise awareness of climate change. The torch relay, an initiative of youth action organisation GetUp, will also serve as a protest for years of inaction and will call for Australia's greenhouse gas emissions to be halved in the next decade.
GetUp for school
Caloundra Weekly
10/09/08
It is anticipated that hundreds of Coast children will ditch the school bus tomorrow for the GetUp Climate Change Torch Relay.
Mullumbimby recognised as biggest little solar powered town
Christine McNeil
Byron Shire News
11/09/08
Getup is an independent movement of 280,000 members nationwide working to bring participation back into the way the country is governed, and the Climate Torch Relay is one of its campaigns to do something about the perils of climate change. The relay, which has made headlines around the nation, is set to hit Noosa on Tuesday before making its way down the Coast.
Lighting up climate change message
Ballarat Courier
11/09/08
THIS is more than just your average torch. Part of the GetUp! Climate Torch Relay, this torch embodies four potential solutions to climate change. The torch uses wind and solar power, a people power hand crank, and also draws power from a lemon, representing the innovation and creation we need to find new energy solutions," BlueSky Creative head designer Mark Armstrong said.
Climate change torch arrives
Islander
11/09/08
The young people of Kangaroo Island will be carrying the torch for climate change awareness on Friday and Saturday, September 12 and 13.
Relay today lobbies on climate change
Times Victor Harbor
11/09/08
“Victor Harbor is set to host the GetUp Climate Change Relay today (Thursday).
Although the initial application carne from the City of Victor Harbor's director of environment and infrastructure, Peter Bond, the council sought to distance itself from the hands-on coordination of the event after concerns it would be seen to be aligning itself with a political lobby group.”
News in brief
Weekly Advertiser
11/09/08
Stawell and district residents will have their opportunity to support the fight against climate change when the Get Up! Climate Torch relay comes to town on a bike on Saturday. Local organiser Jane Marriot said the event was at Central Park at noon and only an hour was needed to participate.
Climate torch arriving
Weekly Advertiser
11/09/08
Stawell and district residents will have their opportunity to support the fight against climate change when the Get Up! Climate Torch relay comes to town on
Saturday. Organisers of the Stawell leg of the relay are inviting the community to show they care by participating in the creation of a human sign stating "We Have the Power".
Burning passion in the battle for Clarry’s farm
Isobel Coleman
Noosa Journal
11/09/08
RESIDENTS fighting plans to run high voltage powerlines through their rural homes have thrown their weight behind a national climate change campaign. Eumundi and Eerwah Vale hosted a leg of the GetUp Climate Torch Relay on Tuesday, hammering home the message that clean is green.
Save Sandy Siraly
Hervey Bay Observer
12/09/08
Hundreds of people helped formed a human sign to help protest against the proposed Traveston Dam, and its affects on the Great Sandy Strait.
This was part of GetUp's National Climate torch relay, which traveled the length of the Mary River last weekend.
Locals carry torch Torch relay raises awareness of powerline
Construction
Grant Reynolds
Noosa News
12/09/08
The GetUp! Climate Change Torch Relay was in the Noosa hinterland on Tuesday, just days after it passed through hands opposed to the Traveston Crossing Dam. This time the relay was raising awareness for the plight of residents opposed to the construction of high voltage powerlines.
Relay to boost climate awareness
Wimmera Mail Times
12/09/08
“Online political group Get Up! has organised a torch relay in Stawell as part of its campaign highlighting climate change. Get Up! has organised the relay to pass through Stawell tomorrow. Organiser Jane Marriott said the group invited the conumrity to show they cared about climate change by also participating in the creation of a human sign.”
Climate Torch in Stawell tomorrow
Ararat Advertiser
12/09/08
Despite no football being played at the venue, Central Park will still be the centre of attention tomorrow when the Climate Torch is brought to Stawell. Members of the public are urged to get down to Central Park from 12 noon when the Climate Torch is expected to arrive.
Downstream dam concerns taken to the skies in...Beachside dam
protest message
Gympie Times
13/09/08
“It was an 85m reminder for Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett when he finally gets to consider the Queensland Government's application to build the proposed Traveston Crossing dam. In a spectacular statement, using words 7m high and 85m long, concerned citizens from across the country yesterday put their bodies on the line to demand Peter Garrett "Save Sandy Strait" from the proposed dam.
The protest was the culmination of the GetUp! Climate Torch relay from the source of the Mary River down to the sea. The relay drew attention to the greenhouse gas emissions the dam would create, estimated to equal 73,000 new cars on the road each year.”
Torch Relay to prompt alternative energy awareness
ABC Regional Online
14/09/08
The relay, which has been organised by the environmental responsibility lobby group, Get Up, will be run along Wollongong's Blue Mile, past the light house and out to Lang Park.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/15/2364796.htm?site=illawarra
Fruit-powered torch in region
Northern Daily Leader
17/09/08
THE GetUp Climate Torch Relay will arrive in Armidale on Friday as part of its extensive tour of Australia. The climate torch relay leg will begin at Booloorninbah at the University of New England. It will arrive at the Arnudale Showground in time for the official opening ceremony at 10am.
What makes Lindsay run?
Malcolm McCosker
Queensland Country Life
18/09/08
It is now history that Lindsay completed the gruelling mud run, proudly striding to the North Head finishing point in the gathering evening gloom in a unique protest that will long be remembered. Carrying the climate change torch from Canberra group Get Up, he made fastest time at the finish because of a steep downhill track to the North Head boat ramp.
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Mayor accepts Climate Torch
Kathie Stove
Islander
18/09/08
The visit of the GetUp! climate torch to Kangaroo Island culminated in a circuit of the Dudley Memorial Oval at half-time of the A Grade football final on Saturday and presentation of the torch to the Kangaroo Island Mayor Jayne Bates.
http://kangarooisland.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/mayor-accepts-climate-torch/1277507.aspx
Lemon-powered torch spreading climate message
Andrew Wight
The Brisbane Times
19/09/08
The National Climate Torch arrived in Brisbane yesterday, its solar, wind, hand-crank and lemon powered LED display transmitting a message of sustainability - urging a halving of Australia's greenhouse emissions by 2020.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/lemonpowered-torch-spreading-climate-message/2008/09/18/1221331023615.html
Margaret River’s Climate Torch Relay
Augusta Margaret River Mail
24/09/08
THE Margaret River GetUp Climate Torch Relay is on this Sunday, September 28. Starting from Reuther Park, the torch will be carried down Bussell Highway at 11.30am.
http://margaretriver.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/margaret-rivers-climate-torch-relay/1281288.aspx
Climate change group in Shepparton
Kayla Maskell
Shepparton News
24/09/08
Adam Kitungano established the Shepparton Climate change group following an email from GetUp! The group which currently has 10 members held its first action on climate change at Victoria Lake Park last Saturday.
Torch to highlight climate change
David Johnston
Midweek Xpress Albury
24/09/2008
Albury-Wodonga residents will rally for the torch relay to bring climate change issues. The event will include a talk on the local impacts of climate change by Professor Nick Klomp the dean of faculty of sciences at Charles Sturt University and the ABC’s science correspondent.
Relay highlights climate change
Albany & Great Southern Weekender
25/09/2008
THE climate change debate is being brought to Albany this Friday when a leg of the National Climate Torch Relay is run through the streets. Organised by GetUp, an independent movement to build a progressive Australia, the Climate Torch is being seen as a symbol of the national determination to avert climate change.
http://albany.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/relay-highlights-climate-change/1282574.aspx
Torch in Albury-Wodonga
Ben Robson
Border Mail
27/09/2008
The Climate Change torch relay was in Albury yesterday. The event was staged to call on the Australian Government to halve greenhouse emissions within 10 years was attended by 70 members of the public and several local mayors.
Darwin Climate Torch Relay
ABC Online
29//09/2008
A new torch relay calling on the Australian Government to act on climate change is set to arrive in Darwin’s Parliament House this morning.
The climate torch was created by the designers of the Sydney Olympic torch and incorporates wind and solar power as well as a battery made out of a lemon.
Public believe Libs will be greener under Turnbull
News.com.au
30/09/2008
According to a Galaxy poll commissioned by GetUp! 63 per cent of voters believe that under new Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull the Liberal party will adopt policies that do more to tackle climate change.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24424318-29277,00.html
Lemon juices up sun power relay
Ben Langford
Northern Territory News
30/09/08
An Olympic-style torch powered by the sun, win and a lemon has arrived in Darwin as part of a national relay. The torch is circulating around Australia as a demonstration of people power in a effort to reduce the effects of climate change.
Torch reaches Fremantle
Fremantle Cockburn Gazette
30/09/08
The GetUp! Climate change torch relay will reach Fremantle this Saturday. GetUp!’s Brett Soloman said that the torch relay was a challenge to representatives from local councillors to federal MPs to halve greenhouse emissions within a decade.