Age: THE cracked bed of Ballarat’s Lake Wendouree is a sorry place for the birth of one of Victoria’s leading climate change groups. Tired boat ramps lead down to dusty dirt, weeds and straggly scrub sprouting through a few stagnant puddles. Years of drought and water restrictions have reduced this site of the Melbourne Olympics rowing and canoeing to a dried mud pit. On these dry banks in late 2006, the climate change group Ballarat Renewable Energy and Zero Emissions, or Breaze, …