Local action - More Sustainable Cities Round Tables in the future
Posted in Events by Ferne Edwards on May 25th, 2007
The Sustainable Cities Round Table was held last night at the University of Melbourne. Eminent Melbourne professionals presented the essence of their environmental initiatives to three slides within a challenging 3 minute time slot. The topic and type of presentations reflected the diversity of issues relevant to establishing sustainable cities, such as the role of the government (State and Local), architecture, community and engineering amongst others. A strong message of the importance of networking and collaboration was shared among those who attended. A short discussion was held at the end of the evening to launch ideas of how Sustainable Melbourne could collaborate with others to support urban sustainability initiatives in Melbourne.
Outcomes and recordings of the Round Table will be published on this site within the next week. Read on for more details of the speakers and their topics.
Presenters included:
Ferne Edwards
Sustainable Cities Research Officer, VEIL, University of Melbourne
Re-inventing the city: SustainableMelbourne.com and SustainableCitiesNet.com
Jon Ward
General Manager, Business, Innovation & Technology, Sustainability Victoria
Sustainable Cities – Business, Community and Consumer Programs
Professor Tom Kvan
Dean, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne
Naturbia
David Mayes
Manager, City Strategy, City of Melbourne
‘Future Melbourne’ a consensus to action to make a more sustainable Melbourne
Peter Davidson
L A B Architecture Studios
LAB: In this world together
Professor John Langford
Director, Uniwater, University of Melbourne
Water futures for a sustainable city
Professor Paul James
Director, Globalism Institute, RMIT University
Global Cities and Community Sustainability
Wayne Wescott
CEO, ICLEI Oceania
ICLEI Oceania
Adam Leggett
Senior Sustainability Specialist, ARUP
Global transfer and transition
Professor Chris Ryan
ACSIS, University of Melbourne
VEIL and Melbourne 2032
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