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Hints and tips for living Greener (From Pine Rivers Climate Action Network)

• Green Hints for your home
• Green Hints for the Office
• Green Hints for School
• Green Hints for Travel

• 10 reasons for various groups to go green (ranging from small business to teenages to grandparents)

• Advice on starting your own Climate Action Group (From Climatemovement.org.au)

• Breaze climate action toolkit  Ballarat Renewable Energy And Zero Emissions (BREAZE) have created a series of articles to help community climate actions groups.

Articles include "Advocacy and Training", "Community bulk buy", "Fundraising" "Working with volunteers" and more.

• Australian Climate summit website
• Climate Movement
• Safe Climate Australia
• Climate Code Red
• Climate Shifts
• The Transition Decade
• Supergreenme (part facebook for greenies part eco-encyclopedia)

• Bureau of Meteorology - Climate change, includes Australian Climate Change and Variability
• CSIRO - Climate change in Australia: technical report 2007
• CSIRO and BOM - State of the climate 2010: short, easy to read report on climate change in Australia

• NASA - climate change. Brief easy to understand descriptions of evidence, causes, effects etc.
• UK Met office - Your guide to climate change. Lots of information here.
• RealClimate - "Start here". RealClimate is a website run by climate scientists, the 'Start Here' page is full of links to climate change information graded by your amount of knowledge (from complete beginner to lay informed)
• "Climate Denial Crock of the Week" - Peter Sinclair's produces short, easy to understand Youtube videos to explain climate science and rebut deniers.
• Climate change fact sheet - 6 important facts about climate science to counter some of the most common myths. Created by the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and UQ Climate for Change.

• "IPCC 2007 (AR4) Report" - The consensus science on global warming. There are three long working group reports and a synthesis report tying it all together. These are available as PDF's or can be viewed online. Start with the Synthesis Report's: "Summary for Policy Markers" (SPM) which is written for a lay audience. Then try the synthesis report itself or the SPM from the individual working group reports. The IPCC also provides online "FAQ's". These help to explain a lot about the climate and climate change.
• Coby Becks' - "How to talk to a climate skeptic". Debunks common myths about climate change.
• NASA - "Temperature Record" (GISTEMP) - Lots of informative graphs showing temperature changes since the instrumental record began.
• "RealClimate" and "Skeptical Science". Two websites that provide commentary on the scientific literature so that it is understandable to an informed lay audience.
• "The Copenhagen Diagnosis" - Released Nov/Dec 09 this report updates the climate science since the IPCC report in 2007. This report is written for a non-technical audience and can be downloaded or read online.
• The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers - Released Aug 2010 by the prestigious Australian Academy of Science.