Getting a Green Job Workshop is hosted by the Postgraduate Environment Network. It will be held at 6:30pm on Tuesday 7th October in the 1888 Graduate Building Multifunction Room (follow the signs!).
This interactive workshop will give participants insight into the desired qualities that green job recruiters seek from applicants. Representatives from different sectors will give [...]
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Climate change will affect everyone, but it will affect poor people in developing countries first and most dramatically. Increasingly intense and erratic weather events (such as storms, droughts and tidal surges) are causing unprecedented land degradation and crop failure which are hurting livelihoods, increasing food shortages and forcing people to relocate. Unless we act now [...]
Graduate Environmental Program Information Session
Thursday 23 October, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Cussonia Court Room 2, Old Arts Building
Further Information at http://www.futurestudents.unimelb.edu.au/grad/gs/schools/msle.html#prog
The Melbourne School of Land and Environment is proud to host:
Professor German Spangenberg
Chief Scientist, Research Director and Thinker of the Year 2006
German Spangenberg will present the following seminar:
Plant Gene Technology in a Climate of Change for Food, Feed and Energy
Wednesday, 24 September 2008
5.30pm
Lower Theatre, Land and Food Resources Building (142)
More information: http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au/info/seminars/germanspangenberg.html [...]
The 2007/2008 Annual Review of Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute has been released. It highlights the big strides being made in environmental research at Oxford. A link to the OEP exists through the Director, Simon Batterbury, who was a visiting fellow at ECI from July 2007-February 2008 and taught there. The ECI combines research, grouped [...]
An Mp3 broadcast from 01/04/08 here is available on Melbourne’s RRR . Peter Sutton talks about his 2008 book written with David Spratt, Climate Code Red – which, with a sanguine scientific reading of current global warming trends, makes frightening reading. Read some chapters.
Melbourne has been ranked in the top ten “Global Sustainability Centers” by New York-based Ethisphere.com. A key feature of the ranking is that a large city region should have “a plan in place that will shift their bulky, mega-hub selves onto an environmentally sustainable path”. The criteria include consideration of -and progress in – environmental [...]
The Sustainable Cities Round Table – Waste Not Want Not
6:30 – 8:30pm, Wednesday 24 September
Carrillo Gantner theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, the University of Melbourne
RSVP ESSENTIAL by 19 Sept to rsvp at sustainablemelbourne.com
This Sustainable Cities Round Table will examine the concept of waste – wasted resources, the reuse of waste, the revaluing of waste, waste [...]
Applications for Chevening Scholarships for study in the 2009/10 academic year are now open. The application deadline is midnight Sunday 19 October
The Chevening Scholarship offers graduates and young professionals the opportunity to study at UK universities. The Scholarship includes a return economy airfare to the UK from any Australian city, all compulsory academic fees, a [...]
The Eco-Minds competition is offering three Australian students the opportunity to represent the country as environmental youth ambassadors and win an all expenses paid trip to New Zealand to attend the Eco-Minds youth forum for sustainable development from 25-30 May 2009.
The third Eco-Minds forum is being organised as part of a unique global partnership between [...]
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