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DEA PowerPoint, The Science & Health Impacts of Climate Change

DEA with Professor Garnaut

Doctors for the Environment Australia Management Committee met with Professor Ross Garnaut author of the Garnaut Climate Change Review in Adelaide, November 5 2009.
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Things To Do

How to make your household and business carbon neutral
Click here. A charter for all medical practitioners by Bill Castleden

DEA in the Community

GreenClinics

This initiative by ACF and DEA assists doctors and practice managers to identify simple changes they can make in their clinics to save energy and water, reduce waste, and help their patients and communities to live more sustainable and healthy lives. download...

Public Transport is a Climate Change and Health Issue

To read DEA's "A Public Transport and Green City Manifesto for the Federal Election" Click Here and to read "Moving Australians Sustainably, transport policy in the national interest" courtesy of the Public Transport Users Association. Click Here

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Reports on Climate Change

How to Make our Households and Businesses Carbon Neutral

Submitted by David Shearman on Thu, 08/02/2007 - 08:33. Reports on Climate Change

Bill Castleden, Chairman of DEA, lists some simple measures that we should all adopt in order to make a personal, family and business contribution to reducing greenhouse emissions.
We intend to remind you of these measures for if you as committed DEA members cannot be persuaded of their importance, humanity does indeed have a clouded future!. We need to hear your views and experience on this issue.
David Shearman

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Planting Trees Won’t Save the Planet

Submitted by David Shearman on Wed, 17/01/2007 - 18:03. Reports on Climate Change

By David Shearman

The Guardian Weekly January 5, 2007 used this heading to summarise a research paper by Ken Caldeira from the Carnegie Institute of Washington. It said “planting trees to combat climate change is a waste of time, according to a study by ecologists who say that most forests do not have any overall effect on global temperature whilst those furthest from the equator could actually be making global warming worse”. The newspaper then quotes Caldeira, “The idea that you can go out and plant a tree to help reverse global warming is an appealing feel-good thing. To plant forests outside the tropics is a waste of time”.