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Climate Action Motions for your AGM

Posted on May 29, 2022 by admin

Annual General Meetings are coming up and it’s time to get involved in your club committee. One other important action can be proposing motions for your club to pass at the AGM. A motion can provide the incoming committee with a mandate to act and advocate in regard to climate change. Some ideas for motions… Continue reading

Electric ATV on patrol?

Posted on May 15, 2022 by admin

Electrification of mobility is a essential step in reduction of carbon emissions and will have benefits for surf life saving members and beachgoers. Electric vehicles have much fewer moving parts and less maintenance requirements. An electric ATV will simply be plugged in to a 10 amp power point overnight to charge. Whilst they may have… Continue reading

When will we have an electric IRB or jetski?

Posted on February 13, 2022 by admin

The inflatable rescue boat (IRB) has been the workhorse of rescuing and string-line setting work for since the 70’s and not a lot has changed recently. The two-stroke engines commonly used by SLSCs on their IRBs are now banned from sale in Australia, due to their polluting performance. SLS has an exemption of some sort,… Continue reading

Line in the sand: No future for fossil fuel sponsors in surf lifesaving

Posted on November 20, 2021 by admin

In the other parts of our website you can read about why climate change is a threat to surf lifesavers, our clubrooms and beachgoers. SIGN THE PETITION HERE Surf Lifesaving has one of the most respected and iconic brands in Australia – because it is an amazing movement of legends. We must be careful who… Continue reading

Socials: Contact and collaborate with us

Posted on September 13, 2021 by admin

Contact us – via the Facepage here

  • Climate Action Motions for your AGM
  • Electric ATV on patrol?
  • When will we have an electric IRB or jetski?
  • Line in the sand: No future for fossil fuel sponsors in surf lifesaving
  • Socials: Contact and collaborate with us

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1 week 4 days ago

Power the Rainbow Warrior

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3 weeks 5 days ago

www.abc.net.au/perth/programs/mornings/woodside-nippers-sponsorship/102040176

'Line in the sand': Nippers parents call for end to Woodside sponsorship - ABC Perth

Surf Life Saving WA is being asked to dump its partnership with Woodside as some parents argue their kids are being used as "walking billboards" for fossil fuels.

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3 weeks 5 days ago

Thanks to Greenpeace for picking up on this important issue!

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3 weeks 6 days ago

Opinion piece in WA today drawing link between health harms of tobacco and fossil fuels.

You wouldn’t put a cigarette company logo on your child’s uniform, so why is Woodside OK?

In the 1980s and 1990s we got tobacco advertising out of surf lifesaving, and now we need to do the same with fossil fuels.

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3 weeks 6 days ago

Some activity today. If you want to add your name to our petition to get fossils fuel sponsorship off kids. Click below

Line in the sand: No future for fossil fuel sponsors in surf lifesaving - Sustain Surf

Endorsing fossil fuel companies will only harm the surf lifesaving movement in the long term, through damaging climate change.

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1 month 5 days ago

Greenpeace are helping rid nippers of fossil fuel sponsorship. We need to add some signatures to our new 'open letter' collaboration with Greenpeace. Have a

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1 month 1 week ago

I wonder if this will tow an IRB off the beach (500kg tow capacity). Might need better tyres! lm.facebook.com/l.php?u=electrek.co/2023/02/16/tracker-unveils-new-60-mile-range-electric-utv-with-dumping-bed/?fbclid%3DIwAR2ort6X88avbExEtEbOYv6GGbkyp7aQtlvEmF8AaLpf3HcCIrMLlKjWxJ8&h=AT0JSG-lQ_Cto3ciR001c7WR_TpR0yPZnceAuZX1ZCNSuxBusUBPUps2fm4EFBZvsLaMNtejezT5ehLEdBFObBWJF9oxJqx2aL-X_oreSl02pylOUaNflCJF_Ead&s=1&mibextid=ncKXMA

Tracker unveils new 60-mile-range electric UTV with dumping bed

The new Tracker OX EV electric UTV has just been unveiled, showing off its long-range design that’s optimized for work...

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1 month 2 weeks ago

Surf clubs need to understand how climate is effecting their beach and assets.

Millions of satellite images reveal how beaches vanish in La Niña years — and how they come back

During El Niño cycles, Australia's beaches recover from erosion while beaches from California to Chile erode. It's known as the El Niño Southern-Oscillation climate cycle. But as climate change ramps up the effects ENSO cycles may become more intense.

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1 month 3 weeks ago

Photos from The Climate Council's post

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1 month 3 weeks ago

feeds.lifehacker.com.au/~/726335486/0/lifehackeraustralia/

The Dirty Dozen: Climate Council Names and Shames Australia’s Biggest Polluters

The Climate Council has published a new report that names and shames Australia’s 'filthiest' fossil fuel polluters. We're not surprised, but we feel sick.

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