Posts Tagged ‘public lecture’
City Square Seminars: Climate Change & Environmental Politics
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on December 12th, 2011
| 13 December , 2011 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Melbourne Free University at City Square in collaboration with Occupy Melbourne
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The Future of the Electricity Network in Australia
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on August 23rd, 2011
| 24 August , 2011 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Effective and efficient transmission of electric power from generators to consumers is a vital part of the electricity system. Australia’s national transmission network is the longest AC system in the world, extending 5000km from Queensland to Tasmania to Port Augusta, supplying 19 million residents. As demand continues to grow and the penetration of renewables on the grid increases, the national transmission network will require significant extensions and upgrades. But what is the optimal design to support a very different energy system in the 21st century? Variable and distributed generation and potential large storage systems (such as an electric vehicle fleet) make this a diabolical question that the panel of experts will address in detail.
Wednesday August 24, from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Carrillo Gartner Theatre
Corner Swanston Street & Monash Road
The University of Melbourne
Carlton
Visit the booking site for more details or to register your attendance
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Changing Places: Responsive housing, mobility systems, and networked intelligence for future cities
Posted in Events, Research, Visions by Kate Archdeacon on July 7th, 2011
| 22 July , 2011 | ||
| 6:15 pm | to | 7:15 pm |
CityHome Image, © Daekwon Park for MIT Media Lab
Changing Places: Responsive housing, mobility systems, and networked intelligence for future cities
Professor Kent Larson, Director of the Changing Places Research Group, MIT Media Lab
To meet the profound sustainability, demographic, and health challenges of the future, new strategies must be found for creating responsive places where people live and work, and the mobility systems that connect them.
Professor Kent Larson will present the work of his MIT Media Lab research group to explore the intersection of high-performance housing with urban mobility-on-demand systems, including persuasive electric bike-lane vehicles to encourage exercise, the transformable live-work “CityHome” that functions as if it were much larger, and autonomous parking/charging technology. He will also review the group’s “Living Lab” experiments to better understand and respond to human activity in natural environments including sensing, algorithms, and interfaces for proactive health and energy conservation.
Friday 22 July 2011
6.15pm-7.15pm
Prince Philip Theatre
Ground Floor, Architecture Building
The University of Melbourne
To RSVP or to find out more about the lecture, go to the Melbourne School of Design site.
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The Housing We’d Choose: Grattan Report Launch
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on June 20th, 2011
| 27 June , 2011 | ||
| 5:45 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
Image: monkeyc.net via flickr CC
Ask Australians what kind of home they want, and odds are they will say a detached house on a big block. The new report from the Grattan Cities Program, The Housing We’d Choose, shows that when residents are asked to make real-world trade-offs between housing and location, the picture is far more varied. The report examines both what Australians say they want from housing in their cities, and the incentives that make it difficult for new construction to meet this demand. Come and hear Grattan Cities Program Director Jane-Frances Kelly in conversation with John Daley on the challenges to Australian cities and governments presented by The Housing We’d Choose.
Monday 27 June 2011
Registration at 5:45 pm Seminar 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne VIC 3000
For further information please telephone 03 8344 3637 or visit our website at www.grattan.edu.au
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The Blue Economy: Public Lecture
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on June 9th, 2011
| 10 June , 2011 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 2:00 pm |
The mission of The Blue Economy is to prove 100 manufacturing innovations with viable business models that could generate 100 million jobs in 10 years, all with zero waste impact on the environment. Each innovation is inspired by science and draw on biomimetics and the laws of physics. They cover the full gamut of industrial activity, from energy to mining to medicine to banking. The innovations are summarized on the ZERI website and distributed around the world in partnership with UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme), UNIDO ( United Nations Industrial Development Corporation), and The Club of Rome.
Gunter will also discuss his current initiative, which is to replace all nuclear power in Germany with renewables within 10 years without subsidies or hikes in tariffs. It uses a combination of three proven technologies:
- vertical wind turbines within existing high tension transmission towers
- biogas generation from waste water treatment plants and organic solid municipal waste
- solar using innovative film
Register for the event here.
Friday, June 10, 2011 at 1:00 PM
Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch Building
The University of Melbourne
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Conflicts Between Climate, Energy and Water Policies: Lessons from Texas
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on June 1st, 2011
| 2 June , 2011 | ||
| 5:30 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
FREE PUBLIC LECTURE Melbourne Energy Institute
Conflicts between climate, energy and water policies: lessons from Texas
Speaker: Associate Professor Michael Webber
Prof. Webber will introduce the climate, energy and water nexus with particular reference to the situation in Texas, a jurisdiction of similar dimensions to Australia and with similar climate, energy and water challenges. He will outline the limits to new fossil, nuclear and renewable energy generation due to water scarcity, and the energy demand implications of supplementing water supplies. He will outline examples of potential knowledge, technological and regulatory solutions to the climate, energy and water nexus from Texas and the United States more broadly, and give his thoughts on priority policy measures.
Thursday 2nd June 5.30—7.00 pm
Graduate House, The University of Melbourne 220 Leicester Street, Carlton, Vic 3053
Click through to register your attendance
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Behaviour Change and Transport Policy: Lessons from Successes in Bogota
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on May 13th, 2011
| 17 May , 2011 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Source: GAMUT
Image: josef.stuefer via flickr CC
Behaviour Change and Transport Policy: Lessons from Successes in Bogata with Professor Juan Pablo Bocarejo
Professor Juan Pablo Bocarejo is professor at Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia in the transportation field and the director of the Research Centre on Urban and Regional Sustainability (SUR), which develops projects in road safety, transport economics, policy, transport and traffic modelling, equity issues related to mobility, environmental impacts as well as land use and mobility. He is a civil engineer by training, with a PhD degree from University Paris Est. He has 15 years experience in urban transport and regional development projects. As a consultant he participated in the development of a range of projects leading to improvements in the transportation system and in Bogota and other Latin American cities, with a strong focus on sustainability. He has participated in projects such as improvements to public transport through BRT development, Bicycle Master Plans and cultural and behavioural change programs.
Tuesday, 17th May; 6.30pm start
Venue: E- Zone Theatre at The University of Melbourne
http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/gamut/events/lecturesseminarsforums/bocarejo.html
Presented by GAMUT and Bicycle Victoria
Free Admission, No Need to Book.
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Climate Change and Migration from the South Pacific
Posted in Events, Research by land-environment on April 4th, 2011
| 14 April , 2011 | ||
| 5:30 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
Image © www.rodneydekker.com for People and Planet: Social Justice Diary & Calendar
It is often said that climate change imperils the small islands of the Pacific Ocean, and will drive waves of refugees towards Australia. This lecture presents and then interrogates this popular narrative about climate change and migration from the Pacific Islands. It draws on a range of theories and evidence to make sense of the issue, arguing that while much of the popular narrative is theoretically and empirically unsubstantiated, there are nevertheless some reasons for concern. A more constructive way of understanding the issue is offered, and some ways forward for Australian policy are proposed.
Speaker: Professor Jon Barnett
Department of Resource Management and Geography
University of Melbourne
Location: Theatre 1, 221 Bouverie St Carlton (building 379). Download map here (ref O18).
Date: Thursday 14th April
Time: 5.30pm
Prof. Jon Barnett is a political geographer whose research investigates the impacts of and responses to environmental change on social systems, with a focus on risks to human security, hunger, conflict, and water stress. He has been conducting research on the social and institutional dimensions of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change since 2000. This has included field based research in the South Pacific, China, and Timor-Leste.
Jon is host convenor of the research network on the social, economic and institutional dimensions of climate change, which is part of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility.
Jon is a Lead Author for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Working Group II, Chapter 12), the Executive Editor of the adaptation domain of Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, and is on the editorial board of Global Environmental Change.
To register, please click here: http://www.land-environment.unimelb.edu.au/deanslectures/barnett
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MSLE Dean’s Lecture Series | Greener Revolution | Monday 14 Feb
Posted in Events by land-environment on February 9th, 2011
| 14 February , 2011 | ||
| 5:30 pm | to | 6:30 pm |
MSLE Dean’s Lecture Series presents
Professor M.S. Swaminathan on
‘Keys to the next Greener Revolution’
Executive Director Swaminathan Research Foundation, India
Date: Monday 14 February
Time: 5.30-6.30pm
Venue: Harold White Lecture Theatre, Arts Education Building (Building 199).
Register here
Professor Swaminathan coined the term ‘Evergreen Revolution’ to highlight the pathway of increasing production and productivity in a manner such that short and long term goals of food production are not mutually antagonistic. He wants to produce more from less, less land, less pesticide, less water to achieve sustainable agriculture. In support of this revolution he worked on better disease crops, better soil health and fertility without having to resort to chemical fertilizers and the use of biological controls to reduce damage caused by pests.
Without the advantages of technology, capital and subsidies, his answer is to pursue a knowledge revolution by getting the right information out to people at the right time where it can be combined with local understanding to produce valuable knowledge.
Professor M.S. Swaminathan
Professor M.S. Swaminathan is considered the ‘father’ of the Green Revolution in Asia. He has been acclaimed by TIME magazine as one of the twenty most influential Asians of the 20th century and one of the only three from India, the other two being Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore.
He has been described by the United Nations Environment Programme as “the Father of Economic Ecology” and by Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary General of the United Nations, as “a living legend who will go into the annals of history as a world scientist of rare distinction”. He was Chairman of the UN Science Advisory Committee set up in 1980 to take follow-up action on the Vienna Plan of Action. He has also served as Independent Chairman of the FAO Council and President of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
Contact: Erin Wilson
Marketing Coordinator
E. e.wilson@unimelb.edu.au
T. 03 8344 4608
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Climate Change Public Lecture: Ross Garnaut
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on January 17th, 2011
| 3 February , 2011 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
Source: Victorian Climate Action Calendar
Register your attendance at http://garnaut-public-lecture.eventbrite.com
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