australia
Fairness and justice in environmental decision-making
Catherine Gross will present the results of her PhD at the Fenner School, ANU on Thursday 4 March,1-2pm in the Forestry Lecture Theatre Forestry Building 48 for those of you in Canberra. If you’re not a local, you can watch a video of her research. Catherine presented her video at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Millennium Conference: Water-Ecosystem [...]
Feast or Famine – Science in the Pub
Should Australians cultivate native foods for the table? Join Catalyst’s Paul Willis, New Inventor’s Bernie Hobbs and Les Hiddins (aka The Bush Tucker Man) to debate the sustainability of our current food industry. Sunday Aug 17, 2 to 4pm, King O’Malley’s Irish Pub, Civic.
Australian Science Festival
The Australian Science Festival 2008 will be held in Canberra from August 16 to 24, 2008.
Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability
The Eighth International Conference of the Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability network: “Kā kaiārahi o te kaitiakitaka: Tertiary Education Institutions Leading for Sustainability.” 1-3 October 2008 in Christchurch, New Zealand.
A sense of urgency and peril?
This Friday the 1st of August, Desley Speck (PhD candidate, Fenner School, The ANU), will be leading a discussion on “A sense of urgency and peril? Australian perceptions of climate change and their political influences”.
The cat, the dog and the python: The proposed importation of savannah cats into Australia
This seminar will explore several aspects of the current construction of the savannah cat controversy. Firstly, it will reveal the competing discourses evident in the savannah cat case as complex; if not irreconcilable. Secondly, it will reveal the nomenclature relied on within these discourses as equally complex. Thirdly, it will highlight suggested changes to the existing administrative powers of the national Vertebrate Pest Committee as being neither transparent nor accountable and therefore of concern.
