November 10, 2025

Parents for Climate has partnered with ivygo, an Australian climate-tech startup to help make the shift to electric transport fair, affordable and community powered. Together we are building a network where families share home or business EV chargers, making it easier for neighbours to...

November 10, 2025

Author and podcast reviewer: Laura Billings If you’re seeking a podcast that tackles the big, messy questions of our times — climate, community, systems, hope — yet does so with warmth, clarity and even a spark of joy, then Sense-Making in a Changing World...

October 20, 2025

Podcast Review by Laura Billings: Climate Magic by Sarah Jaquette Ray I’ve been listening to the Climate Magic podcast, hosted by Sarah Jaquette Ray, author and Environmental Studies professor at Cal Poly Humboldt. The show explores how emotions like climate anxiety, grief, and hope...

October 20, 2025

October is Mental Health Month, a time when communities across Australia come together to learn, reflect and take action to support better mental health for ourselves, our families, and our communities. As parents, many of us are already aware that the climate crisis is...

October 20, 2025

On a recent Saturday night, the music was humming, the kids were laughing, and the share plates were piling high with colourful, low-emission delights. For hosts David and Felicity, this twice-yearly scene has become something of a tradition — their “Climate Friends” dinners, where...

October 20, 2025

I’ve never exactly been blessed with a green thumb. My grandfather grew prize-winning onions. My dad spent countless weekends nurturing a backyard full of home grown produce that could rival the local market. Even my siblings seem to have inherited the gardening gene. Me?...

October 16, 2025

A new review of Australia’s biggest energy retailers has found more than 1 in 3 at risk of making misleading ‘greenwashing’ claims. The review was conducted by Parents for Climate following its landmark lawsuit against energy giant, EnergyAustralia, which publicly apologised to over 400,000...

October 03, 2025

  Community and social justice organisations say the Queensland Government’s new Energy Roadmap is a betrayal of families and low-income households already struggling under energy debt. The plan keeps state-owned coal plants running into the 2040s and doubles gas generation, measures experts say will...

September 19, 2025

by Sydney mum, Vaidehi ShahThis week the Australian government released two major climate-related pieces of work: first, a report outlining the climate impacts that Australia will face; and a few days later, its action plan and a target to reduce emissions by 2035. Reading...

September 18, 2025

Government ignores its own warnings, leaving children exposed to escalating climate risks DATE: Thursday 18 September The Albanese Government’s weak 2035 climate target fails the child safety test. Despite clear warnings from its own National Climate Risk Assessment, which shows children and young people...