Pat Simons

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Campaigns Coordinator for Yes2Renewables at FoE Australia bsky.app/profile/foe.org.au Climate jobs, energy democracy, punk & hip hop. he/him.

Community members holding Palestine flags and banners at a protest outside the Future Fund building
A large crowd gathered at Vic parliament steps during a smoking ceremony as part of the Walk for Truth.
"Every farmer will have a different view. There are some who are deeply concerned (about renewables), or interested and sceptical or interested but confused," he said. "If we can make that process easier and help them extract some value from the renewable energy transformation for them, their families and their farms, then all the better. "We need to do better in engaging regional Australia. The situation we inherited was not up to scratch, but when farmers and landholders say to me that it is a maze and they don't know who to trust and don't know how to navigate or whether they are being made a fair offer, I think they are right."
Photo of a small community library in a hallway out the back of a coffee shop
Crowd of renewable energy supporters with Good for the Gong posters
Three wind turbines in a rocky landscape with a blue sky
Article in The Australian 'Electricity reserve alarms spike to more than 2-year high amid spate of coal outages in NSW Image: Eraring coal fired power station looming
Holding Annie Proulx's book Heartsongs in one hand
A small red spiky flower in mud surrounded by green reeds
Congwong Beach
A crowd gathered around a banner reading 'ANZ Stop Banking on Bombs'
The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River by Richard White
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (penguin edition)
A group selfie of the Better Buses campaign in Vic parliament featuring lots of smiles
'The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics In A Burning World' by Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Holding 'Emergent Strategy' by Adrienne Maree Brown
A long line of public transport nerds in a modern bar speaking into a microphone
Four transport nerds assembling paper trains in a modern bar
People talking next to native bushland in the wombat state forest with blue sky above
A group of people gathered in Victorian Parliament smiling with thumbs up
Two people holding a poster, giving a speech to a room