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The Citizens Climate Campaign Committee is a small group of people, all members of the Blue Mountains Conservation Society, and all with long histories of significant environmental and social activism.
As a group we have no political affiliations - we're just citizens concerned
about climate change, doing what we can do, which is to write letters to relevant
politicians and help other concerned citizens to do the same if they want to.
The members of the Citizens Climate Campaign Committee are:
Robin Mosman is a retired high school teacher, a mother and grandmother, who has been active in leading resident action and environmental campaigns for the past 25 years.
While living on the NSW Central Coast for 20 years, she co-ordinated three successful resident action campaigns against inappropriate industrial developments by international companies on environmentally sensitive sites. She also advised many other resident action groups, assisting them to achieve successful outcomes.
Since moving to the Blue Mountains in 1998, she has been president of the 900-member Blue Mountains Conservation Society (BMCS) from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 she co-ordinated the campaign, with Colong Foundation for Wilderness and the NSW National Parks Association, to stop the illegal filming of the war movie Stealth in the World Heritage Wilderness.
The seed of the idea for Citizens Climate Campaign was sown when she heard Dr Jared Diamond, author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, speak at the 2005 Sydney Writers Festival. When asked what ordinary people could do about the looming crisis, Dr Diamond said "You live in a democracy. Influence your decision makers".
Rosemary Lathouris is a primary school teacher/librarian and hands-on environmentalist. The school where she works has received many environmental awards resulting from her work there on environmental projects with the children.
She has been Teachers' Federation representative at several schools over the years.
She was on the Management Committee of Blue Mountains Conservation Society 2003-2005, and worked on the Stealth campaign. She is a long-time committed writer of letters to politicians on a number of environmental and social justice issues.
Rosemary, her husband and sons live in a sustainable mud-brick home of passive solar design, with solar hot water heating and water tanks. She maintains an impressive vegetable garden, is a member of the BMCS bushcare group and enjoys singing with an acappella group called Ecopella.
Alan Page has been working with computers for nearly 40 years - and still enjoys the challenge.
He graduated from the University of New South Wales in 1969 and has worked on some very large and significant IT projects with the USAF, Nestle, NSW TAFE and NSW Natural Resources among others.
Alan has always been passionate about nature - especially Australian flora and fauna - and with his wife Dianne, captures many magic images for their website - www.waratahsoftware.com.au
He welcomed the opportunity to develop the Citizens Climate Change website, as it allows him to make a bigger contribution to this critical cause. As does his work on the Rivers SOS website.