[ZeroES.announce] Meeting, things you can do, update, events

[Katja]

Hello All,

Here's a summary of things going on. For more, come to the meeting on Monday
(see below) or contact me.

***ZES Meeting***

When: 4pm this Monday (31 March)
Where: Student Association meeting room (opposite the second hand bookshop)

Agenda will include:

Info from John Sullivan of ANUGreen on ANU power use, costs, potential,
auditing, data, etc (see below for summary). Implications of this.

Green power
- lobbying for university purchasing more?
- programme for students to choose to pay for their own

Methods of influencing people's lifestyle choices
- e.g. getting people to the farmers markets and eating local food,

Public lectures

Imagining the Real Conference



***Some things you can do***

*1. Get lots of people to 'Imagining the Real: Life on a Greenhouse
Earth'<http://www.anu.edu.au/emeritus/events/docs/MCH_GREENHOUSE_CONFERENCE_FLYER.pdf>
*, a conference on climate change at ANU on 11-12 June: we have a heap of
conference programmes to put up anywhere the ACT, so if you can put some up
near where you live, contact me.

* 2. Find speakers for public lectures*
We are running a series of public lectures aimed at educating about climate
change solutions. We've had a couple lately. It would be good to keep them
regularish so people expect them to be on, and we keep the issue at the
front of people's minds.

To those of you were going to do this, how's it going? If you find anyone,
tell me and I'll give you the poster template and help organise it if you
want, or get someone else to organise the rest if you're too busy.



*** Some interesting things to know ***

 I met with John Sullivan from ANUGreen to discuss figures for ANU's energy
use and so on. Some relevant things he said:
- Solar production on campus is a long way from being economically feasible.
It's much easier to buy green power or offsets.
- ANU is not currently limited in its green power purchasing by any
foreseeable lack of green power available
- There's very spatially and temporally specific energy use data available
- There's been research done at ANU on schemes to allow students to choose
to offset or buy green power, and offsetting for transport, which we can
follow up.

We can discuss the implications for what we do at the coming meeting.


***Other things going on***

*1. ANU EARTH HOUR 29th Mar*
Date:Saturday, March 29, 2008
Time:5:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Fellows Oval

The Australian National University is participating in the worldwide Earth
hour movement to support the need for action against global warming for an
hour per year.

LIGHT A GIANT EARTH IN CANDLES
ENJOY LIVE ENTERTAINMENT
FREE BARBEQUE

All ANU students and staff are welcome to come along, so switch off all of
your electrical appliances, flick off the lights and use an environmentally
friendly method of transport to get to Fellows oval.

  *2. FOSSIL FOOLS DAY*
Tuesday 1 April 2008
Meet: 12noon @ Union Court, ANU, or
12.30pm @ Garema Place, Civic

'Bring yourself, your friends, banners, signs, jester or clown clothes (if
you have them), a sense of fun and a commitment to saving the planet. Walk
or ride with us to one of Canberra's own Fossil Fools – and find out who
will win the 2008 Fossil Fools Awards!'
*
**Leigh would love help advertising. If you're interested, contact him on
0421 283 825 or email activistupdates at gmail.com. *

Best wishes,

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