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EnviroInfo proclaims Environmental skill shortages looming

More information at http://news.envirocentre.com.au/enviroinfo/newsletter.php?issue=605#13922

Death, Desire, Sin, Redemption: Climate Change and the Rationality of Environmental Law

The Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law is pleased to invite you to Professor Lee Godden’s
Inaugural Professorial Lecture:
Death, Desire, Sin, Redemption: Climate Change and the Rationality of Environmental Law

Wed 04/11/2009
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM
Professor Lee Godden
Climate change suggests limits to civilisation and impending ‘Death’ of species and displacement of people. [...]

Do you have a Big Green Idea?

Do you have a Big Green Idea? $10,000 funding from British Council Australia

Visit http://www.britishcouncil.org/au.htm for more details.

Collaborative Approaches to Natural Resource Management

A symposium to be hosted by the Centre for Public Policy at the University of Melbourne
9am – 5pm, Wednesday 25th November 2009
Melbourne Business School, 200 Leicester Street, Carlton
Environmental issues, from climate change to water catchment management to the devastation wreaked by bushfires, tsunamis and hurricanes, are crucial issues for governments around the world. There is [...]

Senator Bob Brown to Launch Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture

The leader of the Australian Greens, Senator Bob Brown, will be launching Samuel Alexander’s new book, Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture on Tuesday, 13 October, at 4.20pm, in room 920 of the Melbourne Law School building.
Tuesday, 13 October 4.20pm
Room 920 of the Melbourne Law School building. (The Melbourne Law School building [...]

Jeanette Longfield talk on UK food campaigning

Victorian Food Policy Coalition
Steering Committee
World Food Day Invitation
2.30-4.30 PM
Friday 16th October 2009
Theatre 2 – Basement Room 1.20
University of Melbourne
221 Bouverie Street (corner Bainbridge Place)
CARLTON 3053
Guest Speaker
Jeanette Longfield MBE. Co-ordinator SUSTAIN (UK)
A strategic approach to food – policies & pitfalls. The work of SUSTAIN.
Jeanette Longfield’s degree in International Relations and a Masters in Development Studies led [...]

Melbourne’s Forested Water Catchments

“Melbourne’s Love Affair with Forested Water Catchments; What is its future?” Panel event. Wednesday October 7, 2009. 5:30 – 6:30pm. Agar Theatre, Zoology Building 147, Parkville. http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au/info/…

David Spratt at Darebin Safe Climate Forum

David Spratt talks on recent impacts of climate change particularly on the Himalayan area.
http://vimeo.com/6662314
A second one by Tim Forcey   http://vimeo.com/6714481
Recorded with permission by Darren Lewin-Hill. Darebin Safe Climate Forum, Darebin Arts Centre, Melbourne, 17th September 2009.

Youth Decide, 14-21st Sept 09

Care about the future of the world? Want to help decide what it will be? *Youth Decide ‘09 is Australia’s first national youth vote on Australia’s climate future*.
The United Nations climate change negotiations this December are the world’s best chance to reach agreement on a strong global treaty to reduce greenhouse pollution. You have the [...]

Comment on Green Paper on VIC Climate Change

Comments are being sought on the new (2009) Victoria Green paper on Climate Change. Read more here

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