Energy Expo on climate change

Cooma Monaro Express
Tuesday 6/2/2007 Page: 4

THE Snowy Mountains' Renewable Energy and Climate Change Expo is set to educate and inform when it is held this weekend. The Expo will promote renewable energy and raise awareness of climate change with presentations, stalls and displays.

Friends of Renewable Energy spokesperson Rashida Nuridin said the Expo would be an ideal opportunity for people to gather information on climate change issues at the one location. "This is an incredibly important issue and everyone should find out how to address climate change as individuals," said Ms Nuridin.

"It's critical that people come along because there is a lot of misunderstanding about climate change and the Expo will provide an opportunity for the public to come along and find out all sorts of things they can do to tackle climate change.

"It's excellent even for the sceptics to come along to see the experts holding stalls, hear the speakers and gather plenty of information," she said.

Bruce Beatson and Trish Harrup - both Al Gore accredited speakers - will give a Powerpoint presentation of An Inconvenient Truth highlighting climate change from an Australian perspective. There will also be a lot of information provided by different organisations, government bodies and environmental groups including Greenpeace and the Australian Conservation Foundation.

"There will also be lots of solar and wind turbine displays, as well as sustainable building products and the opportunity to see what electric cars and scooters look like," said Trish Harrup.

The Expo is a free event and will be held in Banjo Paterson Park, Jindabyne this Sunday, February 11, from 9am until 3pm.