August 29, 2008 – 1:56 pm
With Arron Wood
You’ve heard it all before – the world’s going to end, we’re to blame and there’s not much we can do! But what if Australia truly led local action on climate change? What if we truly valued our abilities and reflected this in genuine community involvement? Can what we do in our [...]
August 27, 2008 – 3:03 pm
You are cordially invited to a joint soil and water and OEP special lecture, given by a past Director of the OEP:
Professor Jacqueline Rowarth CRSNZ, HFNZIAS
Friday 5 September, 1pm – 2pm
ERC-Charles Pearson Theatre
RSVP not necessary
Professor Jacqueline Rowarth is currently Chair of Pastoral Agriculture at Massey University, New Zealand. Her research over the past twenty years [...]
August 22, 2008 – 3:29 pm
RMIT Gallery would like to invite you to the upcoming exhibition ‘HEAT Art and Climate Change’ beginning 12th September-18th October to be opened by special guest Senator Bob Brown.
HEAT, Art and Climate Change
HEAT, Art and Climate Change Public Program
Cultures of Sustainability, a Symposium
August 22, 2008 – 9:22 am
Plane Tree Forum
Cussonia Court Room 2
University of Melbourne
Thursday 4 September 2008
5:30pm – 7:30pm
Professor Jacqueline Rowarth,
Institute of Natural Resources,
Massey University, New Zealand
Professor Jacqueline Rowarth was Director of the Office for Environmental Programs at University of Melbourne from 2005 until 2007 when she returned to New Zealand to take up the Chair of Pastoral Agriculture at Massey [...]
August 13, 2008 – 9:45 am
Melbourne is in the twelfth year of an extended dry sequence resulting in a loss of 30% of available water resources. Is this the result of climate change and what should we do about it? Are we now in a situation of being forced to make decisions in a crisis, which raises the [...]
August 12, 2008 – 9:23 am
Public Lecture by: Dr Stephen Wyatt
Tuesday 19 August 2008
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Turner Theatre, Botany Building (bldg 122), Parkville
Canada’s Aboriginal peoples have made significant inroads into forestry and forest management over the last 30 years – in employment, as land managers, through recognition of rights, in business and with respect for traditional knowledge and [...]
August 12, 2008 – 9:17 am
10am Friday 15th August
Room S119, First Floor, South Wing, Menzies Building (School of Geography and Environmental Science Building), Clayton Campus, Monash University
There has been a remarkable turnaround of positive vegetation changes in Niger Republic, a country generally considered to be beyond repair due to the advance of the Sahara desert. Over the last 20 years, [...]
August 7, 2008 – 10:16 am
FELLOWSHIPS IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
For recent graduates of law schools or graduate programs in journalism, international relations, area studies, or other relevant disciplines from universities worldwide.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, the international human rights monitoring and advocacy organization, invites applications for its fellowship program. Human Rights Watch is known for its impartial and reliable human rights reporting [...]
August 5, 2008 – 11:20 am
This week’s Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science seminar information:
Friday 8th August, 2008
9:30am
Stage 2 Lecture Theatre
Creswick Campus
The University of Melbourne, School of Land and Environment
Title:
Green building, the carbon cycle and sustainable forest management: wood for thought.
Speaker:
Rod Keenan
Professor and Head, Department of Forest Ecosystem Science
Abstract:
Green building has become a major movement in architecture and construction. [...]
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