10.00-11.30am Gardening Sustainably in your School with John Morahan, Leonie Shanahan, Faith Thomas and Janet Millington.
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John Morahan of ‘Growing Communities' join Leonie Shanahan, Faith Thomas, and Janet Millington in an empowering discussion on community gardening in schools with contributions from experienced school gardeners including teachers, parents, support workers and students. How to start, design and integrate into curriculum.
John Morahan
A co-founder of Northey Street City Farm 15 years ago, John coordinates the implementation, design and networking of community gardens across SE Queensland through the 'Growing Communities' organisation. He has designed gardens for over 20 schools.
Janet Millington
Janet Millington; teacher, author, permaculture educator and communitarian in 2007 helped establish ‘Transition Sunshine Coast' - moving from oil dependency to local resilience and addressing climate and energy uncertainty. She recently co-authored the book Outdoor Classrooms: a handbook for school gardens.
Leonie Shanahan
Leonie works for 'Edible School Gardens' through Permaculture Noosa. She is an experienced and passionate gardener, currently working across 14 local schools on the Sunshine Coast.
Faith Thomas.
Faith, founder of the 'Living Schools' project in NSW, works with 'Growing Communities' in Brisbane, and is their Communications coordinator. She has extensive experience in sustainability education with schools and local authorities.
11.30am Victorian Firestorm - the Aftermath with Daryl Taylor
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From Victoria's Firestorm Inferno emerged many inspiring stories of community leadership and also government innovation. Bureaucracy as usual' has re-colonised the space leading to a managed adaptive social, economic and ecological decline. Lessons to be learnt include the lost opportunity of a community-led or community-partnership recovery process.
Daryl Taylor
Daryl is director of integralevolution - a personal, team, organisational and community development coaching consultancy. Lucy Filor is a teacher, puppet-maker and performer, specialising in social and environmental justice community performance making. With their daughter Maggie, they survived the Black Saturday firestorm.
12.30 Cooking with the Sun with Barbara Ford
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Solar energy can be harvested directly using simple and dirt-cheap technology to cook meals whenever the sun in shining. See how this is done and learn about its many advantages.
Barbara Ford
Barb is an ex-bush GP and international aid worker who would rather see healthy people than sick ones. She teaches permaculture and has a passion for solar cooking and simple technologies that improve the health of people and the planet.
1.30 pm Virtual Land-use using Geo-Visualisation with Dr Chris Pettit
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Geo-visualisation technologies such as Google Earth's digital globe provide a geographical context for better understanding and communicating climate change impact, mitigation and adaptation measures. Be amazed as Chris demonstrates the practical applications for these techniques to help protect one of our greatest natural assets - the land.
Dr Chris Pettit
Chris is a principal research scientist within the Victorian Department of Primary Industries and Associate Professor - Geomatics, University of Melbourne. He has over 10 years experience in developing and applying geographical technology tools for envisioning sustainable landscape futures.
2.30pm Who's driving your driving future? with Dr. Matt Gray, Justin Sawell, Tristan Peach
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Many transport decisions we think we make have already been made for us. This panel explores transport funding, the future of electric vehicles, and feedback effects of urban expansion in SE Qld. Join a community-driven initiative for positive change.
Dr. Matthew Gray
Matthew has over ten years experience as a researcher and teacher in environmental studies, sustainability, and systems thinking. In 2006 he became a sustainable transport campaigner with the Queensland Conservation Council, the State's peak environmental non-government organisation.
Justin Sawell
An accountant, consultant and speaker, Justin is passionate about electric cars. He is a member of the Australian Electric Vehicle Association, the founder of the Brisbane Electric Vehicle Association and has been instrumental in promoting the Better Place electric vehicle program in SEQ.
Tristan Peach
Tristan is a town planner and community activist with interests in sustainable transport and community engagement. His masters thesis analysing people's attitudes to public transport was awarded the 2008 Minister's Town Planning prize.
3.30pm Bringing the Birdwing Back with Steve and Sheila Davis
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Having heard about the plight of the Richmond Birdwing Butterfly, Steve and Sheila Davis planted a single caterpillar food vine on their Gold Coast property with spectacular results. They will relate their story and show how simple it is to attract these magnificent insects.
Steve and Sheila Davis
Steve and Sheila are prominent Gold Coast environmentalists and regular Woodford presenters. Their talks are always entertaining and informative as Steve is a professional comedian and an Al Gore Climate Messenger and Sheila is an environmental educator.
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