Mosaic of matters resolving climate change lead to Euroa

A mosaic of seemingly unrelated matters will enable us to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

One of those “seemingly unrelated matters” comes up early next month in Euroa, Victoria.

The Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority is staging a “Women in Agriculture Forum” on Thursday, March 10, at the Euroa Butter Factory from 9:30am through to three o’clock that afternoon.

And what’s it got to do with climate change?

Unattended to, a disrupted climate system makes most everything else redundant and so on that basis, everything is about climate change.

Considering that, the March 10 forum will see three women, intimately related to the land, will talk about community resilience, sustainability in agriculture and how it all works “on the ground”.

Speaking and the free forum will be Sarah Parker, who will outline personal challenges on her and husband Raymond Goulburn Valley dairy farm as the worked to make it more flexible and sustainable; Julie Telford will talk natural resource management as a tool to ensure sustainable agriculture; and Jeanette Long will share tips on building personal and community resilience to help people cope with droughts, fire, flood, business and personal difficulties.

Those eager to know more about the forum, or register, should contact Ashley Rogers at the Goulburn Broken CMA, or phone on (03) 5764 7507 – registration is required by Tuesday, March 8.

Airborne wind power might challenge traditional base-load views

T

raditional views of power as coming from one major centralized source, such as a coal fired power station, or maybe a nuclear generator, are no longer relevant.

With the corner the world has backed itself into an ever smaller corner, extra room, and time, can be found through using renewable energy.

The use of renewable energy demands a whole new mindset – it will provide the much cherished base-load, but to get there we need to embark, now, in creating a mosaic of power sources, including solar, wind, traditional hydro, salt power storage and even pumped hydro.

Among that mix might be an airborne wind project discussed on RenewEconomy - “Ampyx Power plans to build airborne wind energy project inAustralia”.

The story says, “Ampyx Power, the Dutch-based developers of a novel airborne wind energy technology, is looking to establish some of its first commercial scale projects in Australia.”