Tim Flannery on the Climate Challenge 20 August
Professor Tim Flannery – The Climate Challenge Beyond the Paris Summit
Thursday, 20 August 2015 from 6pm
Braggs Lecture Theatre
Adelaide University
Free tickets – bookings here
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FoE at Students of Sustainability next week
Fair Food Adelaide’s Kim Hill is delivering two workshops at next week’s Students of Sustainability conference at Flinders University – “The End of Agriculture” on Thursday 10th and “Edible Weed Walk” on Satuday 11th. Clean Future Collective’s Dr Philip Smith is delivering a nuke free workshop on Friday with FoE Australia’s Dr Jim Green.
Come and say hi at our FOE stall on Saturday – incorporating Fair Food Adelaide, March Against Monsanto and the Clean Futures Collective with a focus on the nuclear royal commission.
Details here.
Introducing our new CANE campaigner!
We are very pleased to announce that Nectaria Calan has accepted the position of Anti-Nuclear/Pro-Renewables Campaigner with the Clean Futures Collective’s Campaign Against Nuclear Expansion.
Nectaria will work with us on a part time basis over the next six months. She holds a Bachelor of International Studies (Honours) and has previously worked with us as an Anti-Nuclear Coordinator. She brings strong skills and experience in grass roots activism and media.
Nectaria is passionate about environmental issues, and strongly believes that the social and environmental problems the nuclear industry creates far outweigh those it purports to solve. She was an organiser and spokesperson for the Lizards Revenge event, a week long protest-festival held at the gates of the Olympic Dam mine in July 2012 to raise awareness and protest the mine, its expansion, and the broader impacts of uranium.
Nectaria’s responsibilities will include:
- – tracking activities of the SA Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission
- – coordinating FoE responses to the Royal Commission
- – providing the initial point-of-contact for media
- – encouraging volunteers to join FoE CFC campaign
- – coordinating volunteer activities
- – liaising with other groups working on related issues
Members, donors and friends can keep up with the CANE campaign by signing up to our elist to receive meeting minutes – email robyn.wood@foe.org.au
Report back – Diesendorf Renewables Talk at the Conservation Council
A great talk last night In Conversation with Professor Mark Diesendorf at the Conservation Council, letting us know a roadmap to SA becoming 100% renewable in 15 years. He explained why nuclear is definitely the wrong way to go.
The Conservation Council have an auto petition email you can send to Premier Weatherill to ask him to go renewable – at the link.
Thank you to everyone who stopped by and said hello at our FOE stall.
The Conservation Council’s latest report shows we can build on SA’s world-leading success and get to 100% renewables in just 15 years!
Conservation SA commissioned leading energy expert Dr Mark Diesendorf to investigate the feasibility of 100% renewable electricity for South Australia by 2030. The report finds that this is entirely achievable even without supportive Federal Government policies.
You can view or download a summary of the report’s findings or the full report.
Most exciting is that we don’t need to wait for a supportive Federal Government: to seize this opportunity we just need our State Government to act.
Ross Garnaut talk: Australia: Energy Superpower of the Low-Carbon World
Professor Ross Garnaut
Australia has the potential to be even more important in global energyin a low carbon world. Amongst the world’s developed countries, Australia has by far the greatest per capita potential for low-cost production of energy from most of the promising renewable sources: solar, wind, deep geothermal, wave and tidal.
You can read the text of his lecture. The University will post the recording of the session Tuesday the 30th.
Australians get a second chance at internationally low energy costs with the world’s transition to a low-carbon economy. Managed well, the transition to a low-carbon economy will restore and enhance old Australian strengths, this time built on sustainable foundations. These strengths will be especially important in South Australia.
The Adelaide University 2015 Luxton Memorial Lecture was delivered by the distinguished academic and economist, Professor Ross Garnaut AO. Professor Garnaut is a Professorial Research Fellow in Economics at the University of Melbourne (since 2008). He was the senior economic policy official in Papua New Guinea’s Department of Finance in the years straddling Independence in 1975, principal economic adviser to Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke 1983-1985, and Australian Ambassador to China 1985-1988.
He is the author of a number of influential reports to Government, including Australia and the Northeast Asian Ascendancy (Australian Government Publishing 1989), The Garnaut Climate Change Review (Cambridge University Press 2008) and The Garnaut Review 2011: Australia and the Global Response to Climate Change (Cambridge University Press 2011).
RSVP https://mecheng.adelaide.edu.au/news/luxton-memorial-lecture/