Walk Against Warming, Darwin, 2007

Date: 5.00pm Sunday 11th November. Meet at the Nightcliff Jetty and walk to the pool. Bring a picnic and stay for the speakers and entertainment, take a refreshing dip in the pool if you so desire. Pool entry is free.

Global warming is now the world's and Australia 's number one issue and the Environment Centre NT (ECNT) aims to make this year's Walk Against Warming (WAW) in Darwin an even bigger success than last year's. We need to make it big because:

• Greenhouse gas emissions are rising rapidly in the NT due to industrialisation, clearing native vegetation, and wildfires.

• CSIRO predicts major global warming impacts on our environment, lifestyle, and economy.

• Indigenous communities are likely to be hardest hit, in terms of health impacts, impacts of severe storms and heat, and decline of ecosystems and native flora and fauna.

• There are great opportunities in the NT for positive synergies between reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improved socio-economic prospects for Indigenous communities, and conservation of native forests and woodlands.

• There is also enormous scope for increased energy efficiency and renewable energy programs across the NT.

• Neither the NT government nor the Commonwealth are doing anywhere near as much as they could and should be doing to address these issues in the NT, believing instead that short term corporate profits (i.e. 'development') are more important than public health and environmental and economic sustainability.

So we need, and are aiming for, a big WAW 2007 and will tie this event in with other greenhouse projects we are working on including COOLmob (www.coolmob.org), and our push for Darwin to become a Solar City.

For more information or to get involved call (08) 8981 1984 or email: coordinator@ecnt.org

Images from Darwin's Walk Against Warming 2006. Click on image to enlarge.