Runners taking part in Run For A Safe Climate will be passing through Byron Bay and Lismore on 11 and 12 November 2009 respectively.Show you care about these emergency workers putting their feet where their hearts are and give a big wave if you see them passing down our roads on the North Coast leg of this 6,000km run.
What is Run for a Safe Climate?
- 6,000km run from Cooktown to Melbourne to highlight the growing threat of global warming to the social, economic and ecological health of our country.
- The route will take runners through capital cities, regional centres and rural towns, engaging with all levels of these communities.
- The runners will meet leading scientists tracking a range of increasingly dangerous and destructive impacts of global warming affecting Australiaʼ s communities, water and food security, coastal settlements and world famous ecological icons.
- The run will highlight energy resources and technologies – including geothermal, biomass, solar thermal, wind and smart grid technologies – which can be harnessed to hasten the move to a clean-energy economy, and emerging techniques that can be deployed to safely sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
Who is participating in the run?
- The team includes 25 Australian emergency service workers including serving police, a nurse, firefighters, paramedics and CFA volunteers.
- Emergency workers are the ʻfirst respondersʼ to extreme weather events and our first line of defence in dealing with global warming.
- All runners are donating a month of their annual leave to participate in this project. They are donating their time, and are receiving no financial benefit through their participation in the Run for a Safe Climate.
When?
- Runs from Monday 2 November 2009 until Sunday 29 November 2009.
Where?
- The Run starts in Cooktown and follows the coast through Cairns, Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney, and Canberra to Albury on the Victoria/NSW border.
- It will then follow the Murray River west to Mildura, then on to Adelaide and the Coorong.
- The final leg to Melbourne is via Apollo Bay, Ballarat, Kilmore and the towns most affected by last summerʼ s devastating fires, to finish with a community run along the last two kilometres of the run at St Kilda beach.
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