9.00am - Permaculture Design
In this interactive workshop, learn how to design for productive gardening and living in whatever space you have available. Incorporating Permaculture design principles into your house and land leads to less work, less watering and healthy produce into the future.
Northey Street City Farm

10.00am - Rethinking environmental awareness

Does our current approach work or is it creating greater problems? Life coach, Ian Cleary asks is it time to reassess how we teach and talk about the environment? Ideas for parents, teachers and campaigners to bring about effective environmental change
Ian Cleary

11.00am - Low Carbon Gardening

 Discover, with ABC’s Jerry Coleby-Williams how one family of three is equipped for 21st century sustainable living. Growing and eating weird vegies like mangelwurzels and cocoyams; they've reduced their ecological footprint so much they live in dread of size queens. It’s nice, it's different, but it's all too unusual.
Jerry Coleby-Williams

12 noon - Responding to the Planetary Emergency (1)

Leading scientists tell us the commitment of political and economic systems to ‘Business As Usual’ in tackling Climate Change, will rapidly lead to the collapse of human civilisation. Hope lies in the rapid abandonment of BAU, which requires catalysing a Global People's Response, demanding humanity steers a new course immediately. Today’s discussion with Richard Sanders and Monica Richter includes a 'Vision of Hope'.
Richard Sanders, Monica Richter

1.00pm - Farmers – Adapting to Climate Change

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Will the rural industry be able to cope with ‘drought and flooding rains’? This panel of experts discuss water conservation measures and how farmers can return carbon to the soil. Also options for farmers to reduce emissions, particularly, methane emissions from livestock and nitrous emissions from fertilizers.
Dr. Beverley Henry, Peter Deuter, Sid Plant and host John Cherry
90 minutes

3.00pm - Concert Stage - Great Green Debate
Democracy can save us from Climate Change: Western democratic governments, it has been said, are monolithic beasts which historically respond more slowly than the people they represent. If ‘the people’ are addicted to the comfort blanket of the market economy, is it ‘false hope’ to think that the beast and the comfort blankets can come together to conquer the devil ‘Climate Change’? With Andrew Mc Namara MP, Prof Ian Lowe, Kristina Olsen, Dr. Lyn Carson, Sandy McCutcheon, Monica Richter and host Ian Mackay
120 minutes

5.00pm - Sustainable Connections
Join Robin Clayfield in creating and strengthening connections and networks with others who work for the planet. Enjoy sharing and interacting in a dynamic and creatively facilitated environment designed to give support and build sustainable and lasting connections that help the world.
Robin Clayfield

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