Plan B – 2016 year planner correction

Sorry, I messed up.

Those with a keen eye will see that in the inside front cover of the 2016 Plan B diary, the dates for September & October are all off by a few days (thanks for letting us know about it Robyn).

Being a software developer, my heart sank when I realised that this is a print product and I can’t just push an update out to everyone’s diaries. So I’ve done the next best thing and created some stickers to post out to any of you that would like the corrections.

If you’ve got a printer at home and would rather print the correction yourself, here are the files to print:

* PDF of the corrected page
* PDF of the corrections

Else if you’d rather we post you a sticker, get in touch with us via email, Twitter, Facebook or phone on 08 8232 1563.

Sorry for the mistake – I’m not quite sure how that slipped past me, but pobody’s nerfect right?

Simon.

A PNG image of the full replacement A4 page:

A PNG image of the page of erroneous dates to print on sticker paper:


Update #1 21/01/2016: Thanks to Rachael who picked up a couple more little errors. I’ve updated the corrected pages now below.

The hockey stick vs a sustainable economy

Australia’s Treasurer has wielded the hockey stick with great enthusiasm and inflicted many blows, but missed the goal of a stable and prosperous economy. However on an objective analysis I have to agree with him on the following: “We need to live within our means”, “We need to be sustainable”, “We don’t want to squander our children’s future” and there is a “moral dimension”.

He is not quite right about “the age of entitlement is over”. It isn’t; but it’s fair to at least head in that direction.

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Climate action rally speech

Thank you all so much for coming. I’d like to add my acknowledgement to the Kaurna people and acknowledge their sovereignty was never ceded.

Three years ago I attended the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations in Cancun, Mexico. It was there standing alongside people from places like Fiji and Nepal – whose homes were already being impacted by climate change and hearing how they were organizing to fight for theirs and our future – that I learnt how important it is that our movement listens to the people being most impacted by climate change and the burning of fossil fuels, whether it’s rising sea levels, extreme weather events or the high rates of cancer that plague coal communities.

It was this lesson that led me to dedicate myself to working alongside the Port Augusta community to campaign for a replacement of the ageing coal stations on the edge of their town with Australia’s first concentrated solar thermal plants with storage.

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Crowdfunding our iPad App

Thanks so much to all of you who’ve already supported our crowdfunding campaign, raising the money that we need to design and distribute our latest New Internationalist digital service – the Apple iOS App for iPad and iPhone.

At the time I write this we’re within striking distance of the first goal in the campaign, which is to reach our tipping point of $7,000. Just 15 pledges of $50 (or one donation of $700!) would get us over this all-important tipping point hurdle.

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Climb It for Climate – Lobuche to Everest Base Camp

Today’s trekking was the core of our climate journey.

We left Lobuche around 8am and made our way gradually uphill along a broad path to Gorakshep, a settlement perched on a small knoll on the glacial moraine.

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Birthing – a global crisis

Birthing globally is in crisis, and regurgitated myths don’t help.  For example, under common misconceptions, birth is considered an event that is solely personal and decided on by each family; one that is relatively untouched by politics except for hospital and institutionalised policy.  I assure you, this couldn’t be further from the truth.

In the developing world, maternal and infant health is collapsing, despite some improvements arising from the ambitious and laudable United Nations Millennium Development Goal five.  Half a million women in the poor regions of the planet continue to die each year in childbirth or pregnancy, an inexcusable figure which highlights the yawning gap in maternal conditions that exists between – and within – countries.  One only needs to witness the poor health status and misapplied, often ill-planned health support for Australian Aboriginal and Torres-Strait Islanders to see that these inequalities lie right in front of us.
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