Kristy Walters

Kristy Walters became heavily involved in the Australian Student Environment Network from 2005 to 2011 organising around climate change and food co-ops. From 2008 she was involved in creating Six Degrees, the coal and climate collective of Friends of the Earth Brisbane. In 2017 she started with Solar Citizens as the NSW Community Organiser where she worked on engaging and training our supporters to become more active in campaigns. Walters is also an executive director of the Community Power Agency, and the chairperson of the Haystacks Solar Garden Cooperative.

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With UNCOP a disaster, Community Energy is the way forward

With UNCOP a disaster, Community Energy is the way forward

Anyone watching the current COP, is probably thinking that governments and businesses cannot (or will not) solve the problem of emissions and climate change by themselves. Even when trying, they face the difficulties of corporations taking land from local people, paying some people but not others creating new inequalities, disrupting local social relations, despoiling established environmental aesthetic, or use, values, and so on.