Climate heros
From BurnZero
- Max Curmi - climbed a 60-metre crane during a week of protests (late March 2022) organised by Blockade Australia, a group dedicated to disrupting supply chains to protest inaction on climate change.
- Kyle Magee - convicted over 30 times and jailed on 6 separate occasions for blanking out some billboards (in the middle of the day, wearing high-vis workers' gear). Most recently jumped on a Adani coal train and started shovelling coal out of the carriage stopping Adani’s coal train for more than 20 hours, charged with fraud has written widely about anti advertising activism.
- Juliet Lamont - 50-year-old documentary film-maker, was given a one-month term of imprisonment suspended for nine months for locking herself to a train carrying the first coal from Adani’s mine.
FireProof Australia
- Andy George - arrested in early April 2022 for pitch invasion, serving a 3 month jail sentence.
- Sergio Herbert - on bail appealing a 1 year sentence, climbed on top of a coal train, sat on the coal and live streamed his protest on Facebook.
Influencers
News weather presenters are apparently the most highly trusted professionals on climate.[1]
Investors
Sydney Based Climate Heros
Saul Griffith
Inventor, entrepreneur and engineer and adviser to US president Joe Biden on energy.[2]
Mike Cannon Brookes
Climate 200 was bankrolled by tech billionaire Mike Cannon Brookes and Melbourne University Climate and Energy College adviser Simon Holmes à Court.
Mitchell Hopwood
Uses Climate Outcomes Foundation to fund pro climate action politicians.
Robert and Sandra Purves
https://www.purvesenvirofund.org.au/
Tasmania Based Heroes
Bob Brown
Bob Brown funds a non-profit Foundation which promotes the protection and enhancement of, and the provision of information and education about: The wild and scenic beauty of Tasmania. The ecological integrity of Australia.[3]