SATURDAY 8 MARCH
12pm-1pm: Original Aboriginal Adelaide With live native animals & kaurna performers. What was Adelaide like and how did it support its people without modern agriculture, infrastructure, and Rundle Mall? What is the conservation status of these animals and what can we do to help?
Kaurna culture bearers
Kaurna spokesperson: Lewis O'Brien
Tjilbruke Dreaming: Welcome to country
Tiffany Schultz, Ecoconscious: Sponsors & Ecoville
Welcome from your local Natural Resource
Management Board: Penny Paton
Wayne Boardman, Head Vet, Adelaide Zoo
2pm-3pm: Gaia (Mother Earth) is suffering... What can we do? Global challenges: status of living systems and their limits, the ecological footprint, Climate Change, population. What we can do to support national and international efforts?
Young Climate Project Presenter: TBC
Dr Barry Brook, Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change, Research Institute for Climate Change, University of Adelaide
4pm-5pm: SA Alive or in need of revival? Local challenges: vegetation remaining, status of local ecosystems, our ecological footprint, Carbon Offsetting. What we can do at a community and state level to address these issues?
Dr Peter Owen: The Wilderness Society TBC
Dr Russell Sinclair, Arid Zone Ecology, Visiting Research University
of Adelaide
6pm-6.45pm: Eco-Empower me now! The most important practical things you can do right now with regards to ENERGY and WASTE at home and beyond.
Simon Divecha: Solar Cities Program
Mark Anderson, CEO Greening Australia and Leonard Cohen, Technical Director, Canopy
SUNDAY 9 MARCH
1.15pm-2pm: Have we run out of Water & Oil?
Water, Peak Oil and what can we do at a community and state level?
Water: Dr Mike Young, Professor of Water Economics & Management, University of Adelaide
Oil: Jonathon Thwaites, Sustainability & Renewable Energy, UWA
2pm-2.15pm: Eco- Empower me now!
Understanding emissions and offsetting your Womad Carbon footprint.
Mark Anderson, CEO, Greening Australia
Leonard Cohen, Technical Director, Canopy
3.15pm-4.15pm Creating an Amazing Adelaide?
What would it look like, what would it take? Sustainable Green City visioning - interactive workshop with some of Adelaide's top visionaries.
Dr Barry Brook
Gavin Kain, Principle Woods Baggot
Paul Downton, Urban Ecologist / Architect, Ecopolis
SA Youth Environment Council Member, TBC
Kaurna Representative
Sociologist
5.15pm-6.15pm: 'Permanent' Water & Practical Permaculture The most important practical things you can do right now with regards to water, at home and beyond. Plus a peep at Permaculture.
Jake Bugden, Principle, Sustainable Focus
Annemarie or Graham Brookman, Food Forest Permaculture
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