run for a safe climate
Join us at 10:30am on Saturday 28 November at the Leonards Hill CFA
to welcome the Run for a Safe Climate to Hepburn Shire
Hosted by Hepburn Wind and Leonards Hill CFA.
Morning tea provided. All donations to support the development of a Plan for a Safe Climate.
View the Run for a Safe Climate video:
"Why we are running"
Media briefing 14 November includes background information on Hepburn Wind, Leonards Hill CFA and the Run for a Safe Climate.
Run for a Safe Climate
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Run for a Safe Climate
There is increasing evidence that climate change is contributing to the increase in natural disasters in Australia. Ferocious fires, heat related deaths, flood and drought.
These disasters impact on all of us whether we live in the affected regions or not. In particular, they impact on those men and women who put their lives on the line to save threatened communities. Firefighters, SES volunteers, police and ambulance officers.
So, emergency service workers from across the nation are taking things into their own hands. They are raising awareness on climate change and raising money to develop a Safe Climate Australia Plan by participating in a 6000 km Run for a Safe Climate relay to link many of Australia’s world-renowned natural icons. The run aims to highlight our need to bring greenhouse gas levels back to safe levels. The event will also pass through some of the great climate solutions that already exist — solar thermal and wind energy plants, ocean hydro systems and research facilities.
We are very pleased that on the second last day of the run, as part of the Ballarat to Kilmore leg one of those climate solutions being highlighted is Hepburn Wind.
The reception on will be held at the Leonards Hill CFA fire shed, which is at the base of Leonards Hill, the site for the Hepburn Wind project.
Hepburn Wind applauds the emergency services personnel taking part in the relay for their commitment and determination in raising the issue of climate change on a national scale. We encourage all residents in the Daylesford area to show their support for the runners as they pass and take the opportunity to attend the reception and demonstrate that our community will also be part of a climate change solution.
RSVP
To assist with catering, if you would like to attend the reception, please contact Jack Gilding on (03) 5348 6760 or email info@hepburnwind.com.au
Note: parking is very limited at the Fire Station. Please park at Leonards Hill Hall, it is about 400m walk to Fire Station.
Joining the run
Participation in the run is restricted to emergency service workers. If you qualify and would like to accompany the runners from Leonards Hill to Daylesford, please contact Jack Gilding.