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UniSA Presents Planet Talks at WOMADelaide 2015!

11 November 2014 | Planet Talks

WOMADelaide today announced its full list of speakers for the 2015 Planet Talks sessions; a line-up of 16 inspirational and stimulating speakers, discussing a range of topics about our sustainable relationship with the Planet.

hrough her exhaustive efforts over six decades exploring and protecting the world’s marine environment, Sylvia Earle is one of the world’s greatest living eco-legends.  The famed oceanographer is Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society, Founder of Mission Blue/Sylvia Earle Alliance, Founder of Deep Ocean Exploration and Research and has been leader of more than 100 expeditions, with 7000 hours underwater.


While internationally celebrated writer, activist, philosopher and 2010 Sydney Peace Prize winner, Vandana Shiva has been hailed around the globe as an environmental hero for her work in the area of sustainable land management, biodiversity and seed democracy.

 
Named one of the planet’s top ten eco-heroes by the UK’s Independent, and lauded as an environmental messenger by Vanity Fair, Simran Sethi is a journalist and educator focused on environmentalism, sustainability and social change.

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Sylvia Earle

As captain of the first all-female team to live underwater, Sylvia and her fellow scientists received a ticker-tape parade and White House reception upon their return to the surface. In 1979, she walked untethered on the sea floor at a lower depth than any other woman before or since. In the 1980s she started the companies Deep Ocean Engineering and Deep Ocean Technologies with engineer Graham Hawkes to design and build undersea vehicles that allow scientists to work at previously inaccessible depths.

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Vandana Shiva

Hailed as one of the world’s most prominent activist scientists, Dr Vandana Shiva is an internationally renowned environmental thinker and campaigner, as well as a physicist, feminist and philosopher. Time Magazine has called her an environmental hero, while Forbes Magazine identified her in 2010 as one of the Seven Most Powerful Women on the Globe.

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Simran Sethi

Named one of the planet’s top ten eco-heroes by the UK’s Independent, and lauded as an environmental messenger by Vanity Fair, Simran Sethi is a journalist and educator focused on environmentalism, sustainability and social change. She is currently writing a book on agrobiodiversity and saving the foods we love by eating them.

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Andrew Denton

Andrew Denton has worked extensively in every medium except crayon. He describes himself as "too pretty for television and too ugly for radio" and lists his occupation on visa forms as “personality”. He counts Rupert Murdoch, Paul Keating and Germaine Greer amongst his favourite detractors.

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Bob Brown

Former Australian Greens party leader and lifelong activist Bob Brown rose to prominence when he led the campaign to save the Franklin River in the 1980s. After 10 years in Tasmania’s Parliament, Bob was elected to the Senate in 1996, where he served for 16 years. He retired from Parliament in 2012 to establish the Bob Brown Foundation.

Full Line Up of Planet Talks Guests:

Generously supported by David & Claire Paradice

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