November 13, 2009 – 1:38 pm
As the Copenhagen Conference on climate change gets closer, more people are starting to think about what the outcome is likely to be, and what its implications are for future Australian policy, the Australian economy and the reality of international trade in carbon reduction.
Grattan Institute invites you to a discussion with two prominent thinkers [...]
November 11, 2009 – 9:04 pm
Full audio and powerpoint slides from this major conference held at Univ. of Oxford in Sept. 09 are available online here. Melbourne’s Prof. David Karoly was there, giving a paper on the Australian bushfires.
November 11, 2009 – 7:07 am
A particularly interesting topic given the Australian authors discussed in the article. George Monbiot, environmental journalist and author, on the rather desperate attachment to denials of serious climate change due to anthropogenic emissions. Nov. 09. http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/11/02/death-denial/
November 8, 2009 – 8:00 pm
PhD Opportunities @ RMIT University Hamilton
Potter Rural Community Research Network (RCRN) – 2010
RMIT University Hamilton is a dynamic centre of rural and regional learning
and is actively engaged with local stakeholders in building a platform for
community-driven, evidence-based research, with a focus on creating
positive rural futures.
Two Hamilton based PhD places, funded for three years, are available as
part [...]
November 6, 2009 – 10:12 am
More information at http://news.envirocentre.com.au/enviroinfo/newsletter.php?issue=605#13922
November 3, 2009 – 8:49 am
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. [...]
October 28, 2009 – 2:22 pm
Do you have a Big Green Idea? $10,000 funding from British Council Australia
Visit http://www.britishcouncil.org/au.htm for more details.
October 23, 2009 – 8:00 am
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 [...]
October 12, 2009 – 1:08 pm
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 [...]
September 22, 2009 – 6:03 pm
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 [...]
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