[ZeroES.announce] More upcoming events!

[Katja]

Good day all,

This week has quite a few public climate change related things at ANU, plus
there are a couple of big events are coming up later.

*The Greenpeace Energy Strategies Modelling Project*
*Venue*: Manning Clarke Theatre 8*
Date:* Tuesday, 17 June 2008*
Time:* 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
*Speaker: *Sven Teske is Greenpeace International's Renewable Energy
Director, and an engineer with more than 10 years experience in Renewable
Energy Technologies.

There have been calls for greenhouse gas emissions to be cut dramatically
over the coming decades to avoid dangerous climate change. Yet in Australia,
emissions are set to increase by 20 per cent by 2020, driven largely by
energy and transport. Reducing emissions in these sectors is key to making
major cuts in Australia's emissions.

Greenpeace International and Energy
Strategies have modelled a sustainable energy scenario that demonstrates how
Australia can
make radical changes to the way it sources and uses energy. What will our
energy mix look like in
10 and 20 years? What will the implications be for energy security, costs
and employment? What
decisions will need to be made now to drive an energy revolution? In this
lecture, Sven Teske
from Greenpeace International will outline the results from the
Greenpeace/Energy Strategies
modelling project and seek to answer these and other related questions.

*
Taking Action in an Era of Climate Change*
*Speaker/Host:* Dr Clive Hamilton and Others
*Venue:* Manning Clarke Centre, Lecture Theatre 5
*Date:* Wednesday, 18 June 2008
*Time:* 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

How can we empower our communities and embolden our politicians to step up
to the challenge of climate change, and especially to address our society's
addiction to coal?

Two upcoming events will inform our conversation:

*Climate Camp 2008 *will take place in Newcastle from 10-15 July, and will
unite environmental groups with local community members, negatively impacted
by the massive expansion of coal mining throughout the Hunter Valley.
Newcastle is the world's largest coal port, and there are plans for its
further expansion.
http://www.climatecamp.org.au
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=8093197310

*The Annual Students of Sustainability Conference* will occur just prior to
Climate Camp, at Newcastle University, from 5-10 July. It involves around
600 students and community campaigners from throughout Australia.
http://www.studentsofsustainability.org
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10530922471

These events take place within the context of a rich Australian history of
successful social movements on environmental issues. The forum will draw
inspiration and examples from this history. All are welcome.
*
Climate Change & the 'Crisis of Reason'*
Venue: Seminar Room, Level 6, WK Hancock Building 43
Date: Friday, 20 June 2008
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Website: http://fennerschool.anu.e...vents/seminars/

Dr Val Plumwood worked at the leading edge of eco-philosophy nationally and
globally. Like many people, she could see that the way of life developed in
the western world was not only unsustainable but was so destructive that it
would take an unimaginably terrible toll on the natural world. Her analysis
started with the anthropocentrism of western ethics and practice, and its
devastating effects. Her feminist analysis connected the logic of the
oppression of women and minorities with the logic of the oppression of the
natural world. Her commitment at all times was to an environmental ethic
that would include humans within the natural world and that would lead
toward a new culture of connectivity and responsibility. In living her
vision she was an activist and an ardent lover of the natural world. Now
that the evidence for global climate change is taking the foreground in
public discussions, we need ever more urgently to connect human cultures,
practices and life values with other living beings, ecosystems, and global
systems.

In this symposium dedicated to Val Plumwood, presentations and discussions
will focus on all aspects of Val's work: critical and analytic, activist,
ethical and culturally visionary. Climate change will be viewed and
reconsidered from within the theoretical frame of reference that she
provided. Speakers include Will Steffen (Climate Science, Fenner School of
Environment and Society, ANU), Freya Mathews (Philosophy, Latrobe), Kate
Rigby (Comparative Literature, Monash), John Dryzek (Political Science,
ANU), Judith Ajani (Ecological Economics, Fenner School, ANU), Thom van
Dooren (University of Hull).

RSVP by 17 June
diane.jakobasch at anu.edu.au

The Symposium is sponsored by: Fenner School of Environment and Society, &
Public and Private Reasoning Theme, RSSS/CASS

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Another couple that ask for an RSVP in the past, but you could give a try:

*Challenges to the National Implmentation of Activities to Reduce Emissions
from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)
*http://billboard.anu.edu.au/event_view.asp?id=28106

*Adapting to Climate Change – Law & Policy Conference
*http://billboard.anu.edu.au/event_view.asp?id=25482

Enjoy,

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Katja Grace
BSc/Econ Undergraduate
President, ANU Zero Emissions Society
e: katjasolveig at gmail.com
m: 0407124549
p: 02 62491216
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