ASEN

The Australian Student Environment Network (ASEN) is the national network of students active on environmental justice issues. We are made up of state environment networks, which are made up of campus environment collectives. There are 37 university campuses in Australia and most have environment collectives.

We are a non-hierarchical grassroots network and are constantly evolving, depending on what students are doing in our collectives and communities. ASEN was created by and continues to be organised by young activists committed to change. Students use our network to organise local campaigns, share information and resources, embark on national campaigns such as climate change and no nuclear, and work alongside Indigenous peoples in their fight for sovereignty and an end to genocide.

In its biggest form, ASEN meets at the Students of Sustainability (SoS) conference every July. ASEN also has a Summer Gathering around the Invasion Day Corroboree at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra in January, to create a strategic plan for the year and share skills and knowledge with environment activists from across Australia.

ASEN is still only at the beginning of its journey. It needs you to be a part of it. Become a member; get involved or start a new environment collective; get some great resources for your community; fun(d)raise to keep ASEN alive' contribute to Germinate, the biannual ASEN publication.

Although environmental destruction grows and injustice thrives worldwide, these problems are finding their match in the energy of students and youth willing to fight for our future. Everywhere we look, students are active, thinking critically, articulating visions for social change, and resisting 200 years of occupation and genocide. We are directing our energies, involving new students, and empowering our generation to uproot environmental injustice and create remarkable communities and social change!


For more information, go to www.asen.org.au


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AYCC

On November 20th – 22nd 2006 in Melbourne, 60 young people from around Australia representing 35 youth organisations came together to form the Australian Youth Climate Coalition – taking a united stand in a strong alliance to protect our climate and our future.

We are a non-partisan coalition determined to mobilise our entire generation in the struggle for climate justice and a clean energy future. We are demanding immediate and meaningful action on climate change by government and private sector leaders. We support renewable energy and oppose nuclear power. We believe that Australia is lacking the political leadership to stop climate change and we intend to hold those in power to account not only to our generation, but all future generations, for their actions today. We are open to all organisations with significant youth leadership or involvement, and all young Australians passionate about stopping our climate crisis.

Founding members of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition include local youth councils, youth environment groups, youth arts organisations, campus clean energy groups, student unions, faith-based groups, Indigenous youth organisations, and young professionals. Representatives from across Australia are uniting to speak with one voice and take back our future by stopping the climate crisis.


- Our mission:

The Australian Youth Climate Coalition unites a diversity of organisations and youth to form a powerful front across Australia tackling the biggest challenge of our generation: our climate crisis. We aim to build and strengthen a generation wide movement to stop climate change, leveraging our collective power. In the absence of significant action by industry and government, we will make climate change a priority for all Australians. Acting on local, state, national and international levels, we combine our forces to educate, inspire and mobilise young people, influence government, and implement concrete solutions. Working in schools, Universities, TAFEs and communities from coast to coast, we are calling for and building a just transition to a climate friendly future.

For more information, go to
www.youthclimatecoalition.org