Get to the Napier GO3 at 5.30pm to find out more about Fair Trade and have your say. Panellists include:

Dr Jayne Curnow – an anthropologist who is a lecturer at the University of Adelaide in the fields of anthropology and development studies, and also a research leader at the Indo-Pacific Governance Research Centre

Dr Sam Wells – a senior lecturer in Business at the University of Adelaide who is a Rhodes Scholar and has a keen interest in sustainability

Mr Matt Lazarous – owner of Fair Espresso, Adelaide’s Fairtrade & Organic Espresso Bar

Ms Judee Adams – Campaign and Engagement Coordinator for SA and NT, Oxfam Australia

Fair Trade tea, coffee and baked goods will be available. For more information please contact the Fair Trade Collective of Students here.

e-Recycling 2012

on Friday 23 November 2012 at the North Terrace, Roseworthy and Waite Campuses.

Items can be dropped off between 8:30 am – 5.00 pm at one of marked collection points.

Download the 2012 e-Recycling Information Pack here with location maps and  event information. 

Electronic equipment often contains toxic and hazardous materials such as lead, mercury and cadmium that can cause both health and environmental problems. e-Recycling is the responsible and ethical disposal and reuse of electronic equipment. For more information please visit the Ecoversity website here or contact libby.dowling@adelaide.edu.au.

Goodman Lawns, 8am – 1pm

Kicking off at 8am, Ecoversity is hosting a free breakfast event on the Goodman Lawns. Prize draw, pedal power smoothies, cycling information, and of course the slow bike race!

Between 11am – 1pm, SAPOL will providing a free bike engraving service as part of this event. Get your bike engraved to help track it down if it gets stolen.

REGISTER to ride here to be a part of the University of Adelaide team. Any questions please email ecoversity@adelaide.edu.au.

The Tour de Work is a chance for you and your workmates to get on your bikes and enjoy competing against other workplaces in the City of Adelaide. The workplaces and departments that get the highest percentage of staff cycling win.

The competition is based on participation (not how far or fast you can cycle). The aim is to recruit as many of your workmates as possible to ride a bike for just 10 minutes or more between Monday 5 and Sunday 25 November 2012 to reach the top of the leader board, claim victory and win prizes!

Register yourself here: http://www.tourdework.com.au/register/user 

See our University Team Stats: http://www.tourdework.com.au/organisations/view/984-university-of-adelaide 

Note: If you participated in Tour de Work in the past, your profile is still valid.  

Prizes Include:

• 200 Palace Nova Cinema Tickets – for those riding a bike for the first time in over a year,
• 10 double show passes to the Adelaide Festival Centre,
• a new bike, and,
• cycling gear!

The winning teams of the Tour de Work are those that get the highest proportion of staff to ride a bike for their size category. If your team comes first in your size category, your team will win a prize pack full of cycling gear, back packs, water bottles, cycle maps, Adelaide Aquatic Centre vouchers and more. (These are tailored to the size of the winning team.)

Looking forward to sending out Journey Plan Packs this week! Great giveaways in the packs including Adelaide Metro tickets, bike lights, reflectors and pedometers. Please let us know how you get on with your trip to campus – ecoversity@adelaide.edu.au

Check out our photos here: www.facebook.com/Ecoverstiy

WHEN: Sunday 9^th September between 10am – 4pm  

WHERE: Over 200+ homes across Australia will be opening their doors for the public to tour. Open homes are free. There is also a variety of events, activities, seminars and public tours of green Buildings as part of the SHD campaign

WHY: Participating homes will be showcasing sustainable living, conducting tours and providing practical information and experience of building or retrofitting an existing home. Many homes will also feature access to product suppliers, builders and architects.
SHD12 will be celebrating “ 2012 The Year of Sustainable Energy for All” a United Nations initiative.

WEBSITE: www.sustainablehouseday.com

www.shmeco.com social network for sustainable living.

WHO: The event an initiative of the Australian Solar Energy Society (AuSES) . The event is managed by eveSolutions.

MORE INFORMATION:          

Media Manager          Pia Vogrin 0419 853 614  pia@evesolutions.com.au

** please note – Images, kits and interviews on participating houses are available on request

Barbara Hanrahan Building

UniSA West Campus

Bookings: John Coulter 8388 2153 or jrpfc@bigpond.com

Continuous growth of either population or GDP is impossible in a finite world. Both these drivers of unsustainability have now run up against nature’s biophysical limits. Nature is now forcing humanity to a transition, one that is as profound as the transition from gatherer/hunter to settled agriculturalist 10,000 years ago. 

Richard Heinberg explains the close link between the resource/environment and the social/economic components of the present global turmoil. While the conventional wisdom is that we must get ‘the economy’ growing again, Heinberg shows that not only is this the wrong strategy, it is actually making the situation worse.

Richard is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators. Richard’s latest book The End of Growth follows nine others that deal with declining resources, particularly oil. His books have been translated into eight languages.  Richard is a recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education (2006). He has appeared in a number of documentaries, the most recent being Earth 2100 ABC (US) 2009.

Sponsored by:

S U S TA I N A B L E   P O P U LA T I O N   A U S T R A L I A  I N C

www.population.org.au

Co-sponsors:

Economic Reform Australia and Beyond Oil South Australia

Bookings: John Coulter 8388 2153 or jrpfc@bigpond.com