Archive for May, 2007
Vision - Future Melbourne - Leading Melburnians to guide 10-year city plan
Posted in Events, Policies, Visions by Ferne Edwards on May 7th, 2007
Reproduced with permission from City of Melbourne, originally published Friday, 27 April 2007.
A 10-year plan to position Melbourne as the Asia Pacific region’s pre-eminent capital city for living, working and investing will be developed by the City of Melbourne in partnership with the University of Melbourne.
A prominent group of Melburnians with expertise in sustainability, community services, sports, arts and culture, events, retail, bio-technology and multi-culturalism was today unveiled as the reference group charged with steering the ‘Future Melbourne’ strategy – the most ambitious and broad-ranging ever produced by Council.
Event - Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 1 - 6 July 2007
Posted in Events, Research by Ferne Edwards on May 4th, 2007
The annual conference of the Institute of Australian Geographers in 2007 will be hosted by geographers from the University of Melbourne, Monash University and RMIT University from 1 to 6 July in Melbourne, Victoria. The field of contemporary geography offers an insightful perspective into urban sustainability issues. Themes that relate to the topic of sustainable cities include:
Event - Healthy Cities and Communities Short Course 6-9 August
Posted in Events, Models, Movements by Ferne Edwards on May 3rd, 2007
"Sustainable cities" refer to many things. They may represent green cities, smart cities, compact cities, 2-tier cities, future cities, knowledge cities, walkable cities or even transition or tidy towns. All in all, as "sustainability" refers to both social and environmental justice, these all are "healthy cities". The World Health Organisation’s Healthy Cities/ Communities Initiative acknowledges several of these aspects with their network that ties together thousands of cities, towns and villages throughout the world.
Event - A taste of justice during the Fair Trade Fortnight
Posted in Events, Movements by Ferne Edwards on May 2nd, 2007
The Fair Trade Fortnight, held from 28 April to 13 May in Australia and New Zealand, is the biggest ever promotion of Fair Trade, an international movement offering a fair price and long-term contracts to developing world producers to guarantee their sustainable livelihood. Across Victoria there are series of events happening, including the Macro Wholefoods Promotion, the Belgrave "Guess the Coffee Beans in the Jar competition" and International Fair Trade Day Celebration, and the City of Yarra Fair Trade Celebration in Richmond. There is also a national speaking tour by Costa Rican coffee farmer, Guillermo Vargas Leiton. See http://www.fairtrade.com.au for more information.
Free presentation of Al Gore’s Slide Show
Posted in Movements by Ferne Edwards on May 1st, 2007
Like Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”, Al Gore’s movie “an inconvenient truth” was a watershed in the environmental movement, it focused world attention on the problems of global warming and climate change. The precursor to this movie was the Al Gore Slideshow. A simple, but poignant, slideshow which clearly demonstrated the current impact and possible future impact of climate change, while dispelling the myths of global warming denial.
Sustainability Street is proud to present the “Al Gore Slideshow” which will be delivered by Al Gore trained presenter Gilbert Rochecouste.
FREE
7pm – 9pm Wednesday 30th May 2007
Preston Town Hall
Cnr Gower and High St Preston
Melway’s Ref Map 18 G-12