This week on Eco Radio we had a visit from Omar Ameer from the North Brisbane Carbon Reduction Action Group. Omar told us about a group of awesome Brisvegans who are doing their bit to slow down the seemingly inevitable clusterfuck that is climate change. For the uninitiated, a Carbon Reduction Action Group or CRAG is an organisation of peeps taking climatic matters into their own hands, basically due to their frustration with our shitty governments and 'captains of industry' doing sweet FA. With an undertaking to reduce their carbon emissions – mainly by reducing their electricity consumption and travel patterns – CRAG members set about the business of fixing shit up before it's too late. Word.
Meanwhile the schmucks in Canberra, Washington, Geneva and probably Copenhagen grease the wheels of the capitalist death machine with a softly softly approach to the climate criminals. Go figure.
For more info about CRAGs in general a great resource is http://www.carbonequity.info/. For info about the North Brisbane CRAG hit up the link above, email NB.CRAG[at]gmail[dot]com or call Omar on 0413 664 369. They're having their next meeting on the 15th of June in Red Hill, so get on ya bike or PT and get involved. We'll hear from the North Brisbane CRAG later in the year when they do a bit of a stocktake on their carbon reduction efforts to see how things are working out.
We also heard some mutherf*ckin radness from the Stimulator and the latest edition of ITEOTWAWKIAIFF, and another of Mumia Abu Jamal's pearls of wisdom from death row.
Don't forget the Peace Convergence too!
Music
Gang of Four – Capital
Barons of Tang – Tango for Billy
The Slits – Typical Girls
Mexico City – Ghetto
Fireballs – Depression Manic
Chris Macro presents: King Tubby vs Wu Tang Clan – Money Rules Everything Around Me
