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Climate change is here and time is running out!
Our politicians are more concerned about the current financial crisis than the impending environmental collapse that is a far bigger threat to our well-being. They are still arguing about modest reductions in our carbon emissions. Meanwhile the community is taking action – Hepburn Wind has raised over $2.4m towards a project that could set us well on the path to being a leading example of a sustainable community. But more needs to be done.
Hepburn Wind, Hepburn Renewable Energy Association and Hepburn Relocalisation Network invite you to our:
Information and Action Night
Daylesford Town Hall
Tuesday 2nd December, 7:30-9:30pm
Chaired by Tracey Curro, journalist and Al Gore Climate Change Ambassador
Keynote speakers:
David Holmgren
Permaculture Pioneer and consultant. Author of many articles, books and talks on Permaculture, Peak Oil, Future Scenarios, and Relocalisation.
Rob Gell
Rob is a coastal geomorphologist by training and taught at tertiary level, then for twenty-eight years he has presented television weather. He was a Councillor of ACF for ten years and is involved with many state and national environment groups.
Panel discussion
Tracey will facilitate an interactive session between the audience, keynote speakers and Hepburn Wind Board members to explore:
- The implications of the recent extension of our share offer to 12 December
- The attractions of the project for investors
- The financial and other benefits to the local community
- What you can do to ensure the project goes ahead and retains local control.
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Tracey Curro, chair |
David Holmgren, keynote speaker |
Rob Gell, keynote speaker |
Background on presenters
Tracey Curro
Across her 20 years in the media, journalist Tracey Curro has reported for 60 Minutes, Beyond 2000 and National Nine News, presented news on the Nine and Ten Networks, been a feature writer for Australian Women’s Weekly, and presented Mornings and Drive on 774ABC Melbourne. She spent two years at Sustainability Victoria from 2006 as the General Manager of Communications, and in 2007, was selected and trained as an Al Gore Climate Change Ambassador.
David Holmgren
David Holmgren is best known as the co-originator with Bill Mollison of the permaculture concept following the publication of “Permaculture One” in 1978. Since then he has written several more books, developed three properties using permaculture principles, conducted workshops and courses in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, South and Central America, Japan and North America. Within the growing and international permaculture movement, David is respected for his commitment to presenting permaculture ideas through practical projects and teaching by personal example. He shows by example that a sustainable lifestyle is a realistic, attractive and powerful alternative to dependant consumerism. As well as constant involvement in the practical side of permaculture, David is passionate about the philosophical and conceptual foundations for sustainability, which are highlighted in his book, Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability. With this book already on its third print run, and his increasingly prominent profile as a public speaker, David provides leadership with his refreshing and unorthodox approach to the environmental issues of our time.
This year David produced Future Scenarios, an extended web essay on the cultural implications of peak oil and climate change (http://www.futurescenarios.org/).
David lives with his partner Su Dennett and their son Oliver at “Melliodora”, a one hectare permaculture demonstration site at Hepburn Springs.
Rob Gell
Rob is a coastal geomorphologist by training; he taught Environmental Science and Physical Geography at tertiary level, then for twenty-eight years he has presented television weather. In his professional life he works as an environmental and communications consultant and is Chairman of Access Environmental Pty Ltd. He is also a company director, and a published author and a photographer.
He is the President of Greening Australia Victoria, Chairman of the Mornington Peninsula and Westernport Biosphere Reserve Foundation Ltd. and a member of the Victorian Coastal Council.
For ten years Rob served as a Victorian Councillor of Australia’s peak national environmental group, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF). In 1998 Rob was invited to become an inaugural Fellow of the Environment Institute of Australia. He has served as a Councillor of the City of Doncaster & Templestowe.
Rob Gell is well known as a television weather presenter, however his greater interest is in his work as an active campaigner for our environment.
His company Access Environmental Pty Ltd is working to assist companies increase the success of their business through cooperative application of innovative environmentally sustainable business strategies incorporating the principles of the ‘triple bottom line’.