Crowdfund the Movement

We the people can power a future based on clean, ethical, and environmentally sound ideas, practices and technologies. We can crowdfund the movement. Seen a crowdfunding project worthy of promotion? Please submit!

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6/11/2015 We all know that it is wise to invest in our future, right? And many of us have grave concerns about what that future looks like if we charge ahead

“We all know that it is wise to invest in our future, right? And many of us have grave concerns about what that future looks like if we charge ahead with unmitigated climate change…. CORENA’s ‘super’ fund keeps giving back to our planet from the moment anyone starts contributing to it.”

See Heather Smith’s article - http://corenafund.org.au/news/a-super-fund-for-the-planet/

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Like community gardens and off-grid solar? Then please chip in to help the Moss Vale (NSW) community garden install solar PV and batteries. This will be a publicly accessible demonstration site for small off-grid systems.

AND, if this is your first time to chip in to a Quick Win community solar project, your donation will be matched $ for $ and achieve twice as much!

Chip in and SHARE with other potential first-time supporters. 

http://corenafund.org.au/quick-win-projects/8-moss-vale-community-garden-4/

PS: The first part of Project 7 at Warradale SA, the LED lighting upgrade, is now completed and the solar component of that project is temporarily on hold while we assess the impact of new network regulations that affect small business customers.

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Help fund the next generation of Maremma Dogs to protect penguins off the coast of Warnambool.

Project link: http://www.pozible.com/project/199857

"Middle Island is located just off the Warrnambool Breakwater. Middle Island went from an approx penguin breeding population of 800 penguins in 1999, to less than 10 identified birds in the 2005 breeding season. This decline was primarily through fox attacks - the largest attack resulted in 380 birds (penguins and Shearwaters). Something had to change - and it did!!

In 2006 maremma dogs were trialled to protect the penguins by living on the island through the summer breeding season. Since this time, after a lot of hard work by all the partners, no penguins have been lost to fox encroachment since."

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Scott Creek Conservation Park - Almanda Project - Year 2

To restore threatened wetlands at Scott Creek Conservation Park by rehabilitating degraded upland swamps, bogs, spring-fed gullies and seasonal creek lines.

Help support the restoration of wetlands at Scott Creek Conservation Park - only 37 hours left.

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CORENA Quick Win Projects

Quick Win Project funds provide interest-free loans to non-profit community organisations in all parts of Australia. The solar installation and efficiency measures cost the organisation nothing because they can easily pay back the loan over time out of savings on their power bills. Your contribution starts reducing carbon emissions relatively quickly, and once the organisation starts paying back its loan, your money goes straight into funding yet more Quick Win Projects. The map below shows the oganisations who have benefited from, or are fundraising to be a Quick Win Project.

(If you can’t see the map, click the box above to view!)

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Huge thank you to everyone who has chipped in so far.

Now only $867 more to go to install solar PV for the Ravenshoe Community Centre!

You can chip in here: http://corenafund.org.au/quick-win-projects/6-ravenshoe-community-centre/

Quick Win community solar projects enable cash-strapped community orgs to reduce their carbon emissions without diverting funds from their community services…. and that benefits us all.

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Scott Creek Conservation Park - Almanda Project - Year 2

To restore threatened wetlands at Scott Creek Conservation Park by rehabilitating degraded upland swamps, bogs, spring-fed gullies and seasonal creek lines.

Following last year’s successful fundraiser, the Friends of Scott Creek Conservation Park are raising funds to continue their work to restore habitats within South Australia.

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Environmental Film Festival Australia

For the last five years, we've been inspiring people in Melbourne to stand up for nature. Now it's time to take that inspiration on tour! With your help we can inspire communities all over Australia.

The Environmental Film Festival Melbourne has been entertaining and educating Victorians for years, inspiring people to stand up for the environment. Now, they’re crowdfunding to go national. Check it out via the link above.

Lights, camera, action! Our crowdfunding campaign is officially live! You can help take EFFM on tour so we can inspire communities all over Australia with the world's best environmental film. Get involved and win yourself some exciting festival rewards. www.chuffed.org/project/effa

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Click here to support Save the EDO in SA by James Blindell

The EDO is the independent Voice for Environmental Justice in SA. Since 1992, we have been the environment's legal team – helping communities across SA, protecting the public interest and evening the odds. Unfortunately, our environment and the EDO is under siege from shortsighted politicians....

The Environmental Defenders Office in SA are crowdfunding for their very existance, given a withdrawl of commonwealth funding. Help them out at the link above.

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Wombat Primary school by Sleepy Burrows Wombat Sanctuary

To urgently complete juvenile wombat enclosures at Sleepy Burrows Wombat Sanctuary.

Sleepy Burrows Wombat Sanctuary are crowdfunding for funds to complete wombat enclosures, to assist their work with injured or orphaned wombats, or wombats who were illegally kept as pets and/or subject to cruelty. Please support.

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Climate for Change

Bringing people together to create the social mandate we need for effective action on climate change.

"Climate for change will support Australians to have conversations about climate change that lead to action and then support that action - until our leaders can no longer ignore the need to act themselves."

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Look! Almost $500 received in the last 2 days, and only $1,090 to go to complete funding for the community solar project for Camden Community Centre.

Anything you chip in now will start generating clean energy almost immediately and keep on working towards a safe climate for years. As the Camden project ‘pays for itself’, your contribution will continue to contribute to the common good as it is used again and again in future solar projects.

http://corenafund.org.au/quick-win-projects/

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Tonight!! This year going “Beyond The Hour” is easy. Community funded solar PV via CORENA Quick Win projects avoids carbon emissions for 25+ years. Chip in $10, $20, $100, or a whole solar panel if you want. Our current project will be installed mid-April and needs just $1,935 more to be fully funded and start reducing emissions. For details and to chip in, see http://corenafund.org.au/category/quick-win-projects/current-project/

Tell your friends!

https://www.facebook.com/earthhouraustralia

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Marty just said he’s chipping in $1,000 because he’s “Just doing my bit towards a saner world”.

Only 4 panels to go to complete Project 4! Can you help complete it by the end of the month? That will put us on track for our aim of completing 4 projects in 2015.

As soon as we have $2,000 more this 7.8kW solar project will be installed and your contribution will be reducing carbon emissions for the benefit of us all. Anyone anywhere can be part of the solution. http://corenafund.org.au/quick-win-projects/project-4/

Please CHIP IN if you haven’t already, and either way please REBLOG!!

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Huge THANK YOU to Christine from SA, our newest Solar Panel Star! She has just chipped in the nominal cost of a whole panel ($500 for the panel itself plus its share of inverter and installation costs) for the Camden Community Centre Quick Win project.

In 5 years (or less), her panel will have paid for itself and her money will then buy a 2nd panel for a different project. When the 2nd panel pays for itself, it will buy a 3rd panel, etc.In 25 years time there will be 6 panels busily reducing carbon emissions, all from the one contribution she made today. How good is that! 

Of course the same principle applies regardless of whether you chip in a whole panel or a half, or a fraction of one.

Please put your money where your heart is and ‘do something’ about climate change right now! http://corenafund.org.au/quick-win-projects/project-4/. 

PS: If you can’t chip in right now or if you already have, you can always REBLOG this post

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The Wombat Awareness Organisation needs your help to continue their fantastic work to rescue the Southern Hairy Nosed Wombat, South Australia's animal emblem. Click the image above for more...

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Want more solar energy in your community? Support this pay-it-forward model for community solar! We believe that everyone should have the ability to support clean energy. So we created a new way for people to take action. It’s a pretty simple idea actually… We’re raising money in this campaign to put solar on Other Avenues, a worker-owned cooperative grocery store.  As they pay us back, we reinvest the money into more solar projects in communities across the country. It’s a pay-it-forward model for community solar. We call it the Solar Seed Fund.

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Help support this initiative to install solar panels on a business in California, while creating a fund to fund new installations as funds are repaid.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/building-community-through-solar

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We posted this project 19 days ago and so far they've raised just under $15,000 USD, which is amazing, but they need some help to hit their goal of $48,000. Won't you chip in?

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/building-community-through-solar