Social Workers for Climate Action

What a beautiful sight! Townsville's NAIDOC march

Well if Emma is anything to go by, what Sandra is talking about is nail-biting stuff! Here we are meeting with the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Communities during the recent Community Cabinet.

This is in 2 days, who's coming along?

We are so excited to come together with some other awesome organisations to bring this FREE full-day workshop to Townsville! 😃

Held at JCU in Thul Garrie Waja (Bindal Country), on Saturday 13th July, you can expect to deepen your understanding about the intersection of:
☀️ Climate Action
☀️ Renewable Energy
☀️ Social Justice
☀️ Cost of Living
☀️ Story Telling

Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/energy-champions-training-townsville-qld

The Climate Reality Project - Australia & Pacific Solar Citizens Friends of the Earth Melbourne

Townsville locals - what a great opportunity!

We are so excited to come together with some other awesome organisations to bring this FREE full-day workshop to Townsville! 😃

Held at JCU in Thul Garrie Waja (Bindal Country), on Saturday 13th July, you can expect to deepen your understanding about the intersection of:
☀️ Climate Action
☀️ Renewable Energy
☀️ Social Justice
☀️ Cost of Living
☀️ Story Telling

Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/energy-champions-training-townsville-qld

The Climate Reality Project - Australia & Pacific Solar Citizens Friends of the Earth Melbourne

'When creativity & care collide with sustainability' by our member Sandra ♻️

Check out our newsletters in full via our website: https://www.socialworkersforclimateaction.org/newsletters

'Climate conversations in the workplace' by our member Georgie, written for our last newsletter.

Read it in full, via our website, here:https://www.socialworkersforclimateaction.org/_files/ugd/dc0c97_6a5fef1a42b14de881f7fa8e0e1f451a.pdf

'Indoor Air Quality & The Triple Bottom Line' article by our member Emma 🪴

Check out our previous newsletters in full via our website: https://www.socialworkersforclimateaction.org/newsletters

🌏 💚

Happy World Environment Day 🌿🌼🫶 May this be our reminder to love our Mother Earth by practising habits and behaviours that sustain her on a daily basis...🌸

'Why wouldn't you sleep in the garden?' asks our member Nat in a thought-provoking article written for our 2023 Newsletter 🌳

Read it in full, via our website, here:https://www.socialworkersforclimateaction.org/_files/ugd/dc0c97_6a5fef1a42b14de881f7fa8e0e1f451a.pdf

Eco-social Field Placement Recap by SW4CA member and social work student Siahne, who was supervised by fellow SW4CA member Emma 🌿

Read our most recent newsletter in full here:https://www.socialworkersforclimateaction.org/_files/ugd/dc0c97_6a5fef1a42b14de881f7fa8e0e1f451a.pdf

'Meeting the Minister' recap by members Sandra and Emma 🌱

Read our most recent newsletter in full here:https://www.socialworkersforclimateaction.org/_files/ugd/dc0c97_6a5fef1a42b14de881f7fa8e0e1f451a.pdf

For the Townsville followers who love sustainable actions AND free doughnuts...

Analysis: 'The fingerprints of climate change are all over a budget navigating an economy in transition.

Climate is already costing the budget.

It's difficult to measure just how much climate change has already cost the federal budget, but there are some key figures to look at.'

Read more here:

Thinking a greener future is costly? The fingerprints of climate change are already all over this budget If budgets are the government's attempt to chart the course for the next few years, what can this one teach us about how climate change is leaving its mark, and how the government is looking to tackle it?

We have recently signed on to the Blueprint Framework for Fair, Fast, and Inclusive Climate Change Action.

'The Blueprint Framework aims to guide federal government climate change policy to ensure that, as well as reducing greenhouse emissions, it supports people and communities experiencing disadvantage and increases their resilience to climate change impacts.This approach will help build public support for a faster transition to net zero emissions.'

Read more here: https://www.fairfastclimateaction.org.au/resources via Australian Council of Social Service

Blueprint Framework for Fair, Fast, and Inclusive Climate Change Action Together we can ensure the transition to net zero improves the lives of people in financial stress, from the city to the outback.

Australia's climate impacts for our 2023-2024 summer, via Climate and Health Alliance

As we head into the colder months, we're reflecting on the summer of extreme weather just gone – here's a snapshot 👇

☀️ Third hottest Australian summer on record
🔥 Hottest Western Australian summer on record
🌡️ Rental homes spent about 50% of summer above 25°C

Love Eco-Social Work? Love podcasts? Never tried a podcast? Either way, we recommend downloading episodes of "Eco Social Work in Australia" NOW before the RSS feed is gone (at the end of THIS MONTH!)

Eco-Social Work in Australia | Householders‘ Option to Protect the Environment HOPE Australia Please note the successful run of this series as a standard podcast offering is almost over.Launched in June 2021 the series has achieved over 4200 downloads to date. It will expire as an RSS feed podcast by the end of May 2024. It may or may not then be a...

Tomorrow in Brisbane!!

💪 RALLY: Rise Up for climate action This past summer, our communities across the continent have faced devastating climate impacts – extreme heat, firestorms and floods, fuelled by climate-wrecking coal and gas.

Update from the NQCC Townsville Mayoral Candidates Forum where our very own Emma Small was a guest speaker.
She was simply brilliant in getting the message across on the social justice aspect in the Climate Change debate and that there are many under-utilised opportunities for local government to do better. Let’s start by connecting with community in an inclusive way! NQCC put on a free event, Chamber of Commerce is holding a Mayoral Candidates Forum tomorrow morning for $95 per person...

Townsville Mayoral Candidates Forum this afternoon

We can't wait to hear from Prof. Steve Turton at our upcoming Mayoral Candidates Forum this Thursday! (Get your free tickets here: https://www.nqcc.org.au/mayoral_candidates_forum )

Professor Turton is an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography at Central Queensland University with many impressive academic achievements! Steve was an Expert Reviewer for the IPCC's 5th and 6th Assessment Reports, Working Group 2 (Impacts and Adaptation) and his latest book, "Surviving the Climate Crisis: Australian Perspectives and Solutions" was published in January 2023.

Photo credit: CQUniversity

Feeling excited for tomorrow. Come along to the lecture theatre in the Education Central Building if you are in Townsville!

Don’t miss your opportunity to hear Townsville mayoral candidates speak about the approaches they would take to address local climate impacts at the Townsville Mayoral Candidates Forum this Thursday evening (doors open from 5pm for a 6pm start at JCU’s Education Central, Building 134.

Guest speakers will include JCU Social Work alumna Emma Small who, as a social worker, sees in her day-to-day work how climate change impacts people’s health and wellbeing.

Our wrap-up of 2023. We look forward to staying connected with you in 2024.
2023 December Newsletter

Our 2023 Wrap-Up is Here Round up! Round up! We're rounding up 2023 and getting motivated for 2024! Click the link below to see what we've done and thoughts we've had over the last year, as well as some directions for the next.

We’re starting to notice more and more articles like this popping up… Climate change is absolutely the business of the social work community 🌏 🔥

- - - -

One of our members spotted this today via the Queensland Alliance for Mental Health mailing list:

“Why Climate Change may see More People Turn to Alcohol and Other Drugs:

Extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, storms and wildfires, are becoming more frequent and severe and affect our mental health in a multitude of ways. This article from The Conversation outlines some of the ways it is likely to have an impact and suggests that – in addition to addressing climate change more broadly – we need strategies that focus health-related policies more on broadscale health promotion, including community-led mental health support.”

To continue reading, click here: https://theconversation.com/5-reasons-why-climate-change-may-see-more-of-us-turn-to-alcohol-and-other-drugs-217894

2023 likely hottest year on record; further spike expected with El Niño 2023 is “almost certain to be the warmest year on record” after October smashed temperature highs, while the mercury will keep rising as the warming El Niño effect continues well into next year.

Check out the principles of the doughnut economy. Sounds like 🎶 to a social worker’s 👂
(Different to ‘circular economies’ which has become a greenwashed name for growth-based economics)

Global Donut Day is a day of local, community-led festivals centred around Doughnut Economics, distributed and connected across the world! It is a unifying day of local action and global connection.

Global Celebration

Want to see where your nearest festival is being held? Global Donut Day is being held both online and in-person worldwide. Check out our current list of Local Donut Festivals.

https://doughnuteconomics.org/globaldonutday

Creative thinking….wonder how well it works for the birds compared to the regular birdhouse. Does anyone have experience with that?

We really admire the dedication and passion of the North Queensland Conservation Council and are so proud to be working with them. Be sure to have a look at their 22-23 annual report and get inspired!

Have you seen our 2022-2023 Annual Report yet? 👀
It's a labour of love and a thing of beauty, and is currently just hanging about, waiting to be read...

https://assets.nationbuilder.com/nqcc2/pages/134/attachments/original/1699335115/2223-AnnualReport-web_%282%29-compressed.pdf?1699335115