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Under the stunning tree lined canopy of Botanic Park’s ‘Speakers’ Corner’ join the world’s great minds as they discuss issues, ideas and solutions for an environmentally sustainable planet.
Saturday @ 1.30pm
Monday @ 1.00pm
Tim Flannery Keynote with Robyn Williams
Wardrobe Crisis LIVE
Speaker: Tim Flannery Host: Robyn Williams
Saturday @ 3.30pm
The wonder of birds Speakers: Jim Robbins, Sonia Kleindorfer Host: Robyn Williams
Sunday @ 1.00pm
Techtopia LIVE Speakers: Genevieve Bell, Kristin Alford and Toby Walsh Host: Eleanor Hall
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Climate justice and the human face of climate change Speakers: Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Ursula Rakova, Julian Burnside and Tim Costello Host: Ben Doherty
Speakers: Gab Murphy and Megan O’Malley Host: Clare Press
Monday @ 3.00pm
Peter Greste in conversation with Ben Doherty Speaker: Peter Greste Host: Ben Doherty
Monday @ 5.00pm
Is plastic pollution as great a threat to humanity as climate change? Speakers: Anne Sharp, Vaughan Levitzke and Vivian Sim Host: Deb Tribe
SANAA : A BET TER WORLD THROUGH CREATIVIT Y KERRY PACKER CIVIC GALLERY 5 FEBRUARY TO 16 MARCH The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre is a dynamic and eclectic centre devoted to generating ideas and solutions to achieve cohesive, sustainable societies. We engage national and international speakers to contribute to a FREE events program including lectures and art exhibitions that reflect our themes: Strengthening our Democracy. Valuing our Diversity. Building our Future. Register for 2018 events at hawkecentre.unisa.edu.au
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THE BOB HAWKE PRIME MINISTERIAL CENTRE
Individuals who live, work, study or volunteer in the city, as well as businesses and organisations located in, or servicing the city, are all invited to help reduce our city’s carbon emissions. The focus areas are: energy efficient buildings and homes; low carbon transportation; renewable energy; waste reduction and water efficiency; and carbon off-setting / carbon accounting. Opportunities include: • participating in Carbon Neutral Adelaide events and initiatives.
Help us to make Adelaide the world’s first carbon neutral city Individuals and organisations are being asked to play their part to help fulfil the community’s shared aspiration for the City of Adelaide to become the world’s first carbon neutral city.
• taking action, at home or at work – a host of helpful resources are located on the Carbon Neutral Adelaide website. • getting in the loop. Sign up to the monthly e-news (there are both business and residential editions) for upcoming events, tips, incentives and stories. • visiting the Partner Directory to learn what our 130 founding partners are actively doing to reduce carbon emissions in the city and how their products and services can help you to reduce your carbon emissions too.
Carbon Neutral Adelaide is embracing the economic, social and environmental opportunities of responding to climate change, attracting investment to the city and creating opportunities for local business through the uptake of renewable energy and clean, smart technologies, strengthening the City of Adelaide’s reputation as a smart, green, liveable and creative city. Visit www.carbonneutraladelaide. com.au to find out how you can play your part.
SATURDAY 10 MARCH 1.30pm ~ Speakers’ Corner
Tim Flannery Keynote with Robyn Williams speakers: Tim Flannery host: Robyn Williams Internationally celebrated environmentalist, scientist, explorer, writer and 2007 Australian of the Year, Professor Tim Flannery will open the Planet Talks with a keynote address and conversation about our sustainable relationship with the planet joined by the father of Australian science broadcasting, the legendary Robyn Williams.
Tim Flannery Robyn Williams
AUSTRALIA
Three years after joining the ABC science unit in 1972, Robyn Williams began hosting the award-winning Science Show – one of the longest-running programs on Australian radio and a program he continues to host. He holds a host of honorary doctorates, has written more than 10 books, has a star in the constellation Carina named after him and is the first journalist to be elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
AUSTRALIA
Tim Flannery is a scientist, explorer, writer, Australian of the Year and one of the world’s most prominent environmentalists. Currently Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute and chief councilor of the Australian Climate Council (Australia’s largest and most successful crowd funded organization that he founded), he has published over 140 peer-reviewed scientific papers, named 25 living and 50 fossil mammal species and written 33 books including his latest publication ‘Sunlight and Seaweed’ and the award winning The Future Eaters and The Weather Makers.
SATURDAY 10 MARCH 3.30pm ~ Speakers’ Corner
The wonder of birds
Our most vital connection to nature and what they tell us about the planet and ourselves. speakers: Jim Robbins, Sonia Kleindorfer host: Robyn Williams Our human relationship to birds is like no other creature on earth. These wondrous and miraculous animals captivate, inform and enrich all life on the planet in extraordinary ways. New York Times writer and author of “The Wonder of Birds” Jim Robbins, professor of animal behaviour at Flinders Uni Sonia Kleindorfer, and passionate bird lover and VP of Flora and Fauna International, Rove McManus, will come together for a fascinating conversation about one of our most vital connection to nature and what they tell us about the planet and ourselves.
Jim Robbins
USA
Jim Robbins has written passionately about his two interests for nearly forty years, the environment and the human central nervous system. He’s been a frequent contributor to the New York Times, as well as numerous magazines such as Vanity Fair and Smithsonian. He’s written six books including The Man Who Planted Trees: A Story of Lost Groves, his most recent is the critically acclaimed, “The Wonder of Birds; What they tell us about ourselves, the world and a better future.”
Sonia Kleindorfer
AUSTRALIA
Sonia Kleindorfer is professor of animal behaviour at Flinders University and scientific director of the Flinders Research Centre for Animal Behaviour. She’s particularly interested in dialogue regarding biodiversity and evolutionary biology. She received the D.L. Serventy Medal for outstanding ornithology research in 2016. Sonia’s favourite research areas are bird song, prenatal vocal learning, and teaching and learning in non-human animals.
SUNDAY 11 MARCH 1.00pm ~ Speakers’ Corner
Techtopia LIVE speakers: Genevieve Bell, Kristin Alford and Toby Walsh host: Eleanor Hall ABC’s Eleanor Hall brings her fascinating Techtopia segment from ABC Radio to the Planet Talks. AI and Autonomous Machines represent the most significant social and organizational challenges since human civilisation emerged 5000 years ago. How humanity engages with these technologies today is the key to ensuring these tools benefit both society and the environment. Joining Eleanor Hall for a live discussion exploring the ramifications of technologies set to disrupt our sustainable relationship with the planet will be three of Australian brightest minds – cultural anthropologist Genevieve Bell, futurist and Director of .MOD, Kristin Alford and one of the world’s leading scientists researching Artificial Intelligence, Toby Walsh.
Eleanor Hall
AUSTRALIA
Eleanor Hall is the voice of ABC radio current affairs at lunchtime, hosting the award-winning The World Today, which has more than a million listeners. With two decades of journalistic experience and with degrees from around the world, Eleanor is a truly international journalist who has reported with intelligence and compassion from all corners of the globe.
Genevieve Bell
AUSTRALIA
Genevieve Bell is one of the world’s leading technologists having pioneered futurist research looking at how different cultures use technology. As Professor and Director of the 3A Institute at the Australian National University, she also holds a research appointment at Data61. Additionally, Prof Bell is the Florence Violet McKenzie Chair at the ANU and a Vice President and Senior Fellow at Intel Corporation, where she most recently served as their chief futurist.
Kristin Alford
AUSTRALIA
Kristin Alford is a futurist and the Director of MOD. an immersive museum of discovery at the University of South Australia. Kristin leads a team dedicated to creating dynamic, changing exhibitions showcasing the edge of knowledge and emerging technologies. Prior to this role, Kristin was the founding director of foresight agency Bridge8, facilitating futures and engagement for government, corporates and not-for-profits on a range of areas including clean technologies and climate futures.
Toby Walsh
AUSTRALIA
Toby Walsh is one of the world’s leading researchers in AI. He is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales and leads a research group at Data61, Australia’s Centre of Excellence for ICT Research. He has been elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI for his contributions to AI research, and has won the prestigious Humboldt research award. His work revolves around how computers can interact with humans to optimise decision-making for the common good.
SUNDAY 11 MARCH 3.00pm ~ Speakers’ Corner
Climate justice and the human face of climate change speakers: Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Ursula Rakova, Julian Burnside and Tim Costello host: Ben Doherty
While the world’s richest countries talk about climate change, many of the poorest nations are experiencing its devastating effects right now. Climate justice activists, Ursula Rakova (Carteret Islands) and Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner (Marshall Islands) are the human face of climate change. Their homelands are the first nations of people being forcibly displaced due to manmade global warming. Ursula Rakova and Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner are joined by Julian Burnside and Tim Costello to explore our responsibilities to the human face of climate change.
Ben Doherty
AUSTRALIA
Ben Doherty is a correspondent for The Guardian newspaper, and has spent more than a decade reporting across the Asia-Pacific. He’s also a passionate photographer and video journalist. He’s a three-time Walkley Award winner, most recently in 2016 for his moving account of Kurdish refugee Fazel Chegani who died while in detention on Christmas Island.
Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner
MARSHALL ISLANDS
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner is a poet and climate change activist from the Marshall Islands. She came to international attention for her presentation at the opening of the United Nations Climate Summit in New York in 2014. Her first collection of poems, Iep Ja¯ltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter, was released in 2017. She also co-founded the non-profit Jo-Jikum, to empower Marshallese youth to seek solutions to climate change and environmental impacts threatening their homeland.
Ursula Rakova
Papua New Guinea
Ursula Rakova is a pioneer in PNG’s environmental movement and international campaigner for the survival of her people and homeland. She is the Executive Director of Tulele Peisa, a local community organization in Papua New Guinea trying to relocate small island communities affected by the impacts of climate change. Born on the Carteret Islands near Bougainville, threatened by rising sea levels, she has set up community schooling for young Bougainvilleans.
Julian Burnside
AUSTRALIA
Julian Burnside (AO QC) is a barrister specialising in commercial litigation who is deeply involved in human rights work, in particular in relation to refugees. In 2003 he compiled a book of letters written by asylum seekers held in Australia’s detention camps. He is also the author of “Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice”. Among his many accolades, he’s been elected as a National Living Treasure (2004) and made an Officer of the Order of Australia.
Tim Costello
AUSTRALIA
Tim Costello is one of Australia’s best known community leaders and one of the leading voices on social justice and global poverty and has been instrumental in ensuring these issues are placed on the national and international agenda. He has travelled the world for work in poverty and emergency relief and led World Vision in Australia for 13 years. He has spearheaded public debate on problem gambling, homelessness, reconciliation and substance abuse.
MONDAY 12 MARCH 1.00pm ~ Speakers’ Corner
Wardrobe Crisis LIVE! speakers: Gab Murphy & Megan O’Malley host: Clare Press
Respected sustainable fashion journalist and author Clare Press brings her popular “slow fashion” podcast, “Wardrobe Crisis” to a live recording at the Planet Talks! The Wardrobe Crisis Podcast decodes the fashion system and digs deep to explore fashion’s effects on people and planet. Sitting down with Clare are intrepid documentary makers Gab Murphy and Megan O’Malley of “Walk Sew Good” to investigate the impact of our modern fashion consumption habits. These two intrepid explorers walked 3500km across South East Asia to find and document positive stories they hope will change the way people see, value and talk about fashion.
Walk Sew Good Gab Murphy & Megan O’Malley AUSTRALIA Clare Press
AUSTRALIA
Leading ethical fashion journalist, podcaster and author, Clare Press explores responsible fashion in her Wardrobe Crisis platform. A former Vogue features director and Instyle columnist, she also sits on the Australian advisory board of Fashion Revolution and is Marie Claire’s fashion editor-at-large. Her book about the fashion system and its effects on people and the planet, ‘Wardrobe Crisis’, was named one of The Age’s best books of 2016.
In an act of solidarity and friendship, Gab Murphy and Megan O’Malley set off together in 2016 across Southeast Asia. They walked for 3500 km through Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia meeting with and learning from people creating fashion in positive and sustainable ways. They came back with a bounty of evidence to suggest we can make a difference to avoid shopping for items that support injustice and exploitation.
MONDAY 12 MARCH 3.00pm ~ Speakers’ Corner
Peter Greste in conversation with Ben Doherty speaker: Peter Greste host: Ben Doherty Peter Greste is an award winning foreign correspondent who worked for Reuters, the BBC and Al Jazeera around the world, including London, Belgrade, Africa, South America and Afghanistan. Most recently however, he has become best known for his campaign for press freedom after enduring 400 days in a Cairo prison on charges of terrorism and producing fake news to undermine Egyptian national security. Peter will be joined in a conversation about press freedom and its importance for the future of democracy by three time Walkley Award-winning journalist Ben Doherty from the Guardian.
Peter Greste Ben Doherty
AUSTRALIA
Ben Doherty is a correspondent for The Guardian newspaper, and has spent more than a decade reporting across the Asia-Pacific. He’s also a passionate photographer and video journalist. He’s a three-time Walkley Award winner, most recently in 2016 for his moving account of Kurdish refugee Fazel Chegani who died while in detention on Christmas Island.
AUSTRALIA
Peter Greste is the University of Queensland’s UNESCO chair of journalism and communication. He studied journalism at the Queensland University of Technology and his work as a foreign correspondent for Reuters, the BBC and Al Jazeera has taken him around the world including London, Belgrade, Africa, South America and Afghanistan. He was awarded a Peabody Award in 2011 for his documentary on Somalia, and the Australian Human Rights Medal in 2015 for his work as an advocate of a free press.
MONDAY 12 MARCH 5.00pm ~ Speakers’ Corner
Is plastic pollution as great a threat to humanity as climate change? speakers: Anne Sharp, Vaughan Levitzke and Vivian Sim host: Deb Tribe An estimated five trillion plastic items – mostly less than five millimetres in size – are currently circulating the surface of the world’s oceans and scientists cite microplastics (particles less than 5mm) entering our food chain as a potential toxic ticking time bomb. Let that sink in for a minute... (‘scuse the pun) Three experts in waste, microplastic contamination research and consumer behaviour, Vaughan Levitzke, Vivian Sim, and Anne Sharp sit down with the ABCs Deb Tribe to discuss the scale of the world’s addiction to plastic and the possible solutions.
Deb Tribe
AUSTRALIA
Deb studied law at the University of Adelaide and worked for fifteen years in industrial law, workers compensation & equal opportunity & human rights law. She then changed career & joined ABC Radio. Deb is also a Marriage Celebrant & passionate enthusiast of music, film and art.
Anne Sharp
AUSTRALIA
Dr Anne Sharp is a Senior Research Scientist at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science at the University of South Australia. She heads the Sustainable Marketing research of the Institute and has interest and expertise in evaluating interventions encouraging behaviour change for improved environmental outcomes. Anne has published over 50 academic articles and book chapters.
Vaughan Levitzke
AUSTRALIA
Vaughan Levitzke has played a leading role in sustainability in South Australia for decades. He heads Green Industries South Australia (GISA). Prior to his role at GISA, Vaughan established, and led another ground-breaking organisation, Zero Waste SA. He also spent a decade with the South Australian Environment Protection Authority, focussing on regulation in the waste sector, litter, container deposit legislation, eco-efficiency and industry sustainability.
Vivian Sim
AUSTRALIA
Plastic pollution and its issues has been the focus of Vivian’s life since she started her research in marine ecology and environmental science 2013. Her research at UNSW has investigated the threats posed by the presence of microplastics in our environment. She has worked as advocate for science communication and education in her local community and is regular fixture in university teaching labs and the Sydney Institute of Marine Science.
Energy storage provides the missing link that enables renewably-sourced energy to replace polluting fossil-based sources for future on-grid and off-grid energy needs. Batteries timeshift today’s surplus solar and wind energy for delivery to consumers’ homes or the energy network grid when required. South Australia is a global leader in energy storage, with the world’s largest grid battery now operating in Jamestown as well as multiple large-scale renewable-storage projects announced for the State’s Iron Triangle region – formerly, a fossil fuel-powered heartland.
ZCell: Sustainable energy storage from Redflow If you want a battery for your home or business that works hard every day; sustains its 10kWh energy storage capacity for 10 years; handles temperatures as hot as 50 degrees Celsius; and has a great recycling story, you’re looking for ZCell – the Australian battery that rewrites the rules.
Redflow www.redflow.com is the Australian energy storage company that has developed ZCell – the 10 kilowatt-hour (kWh) zinc-bromine flow battery that rewrites the rules which limit legacy battery chemistries such as lead-acid and lithium. ZCell thrives on heat and hard work, making it the ideal energy storage system for the demanding Australian environment. ZCell delivers 100 per cent daily depth of discharge; sustains its energy storage capacity for a warranted 10 years; and can work in ambient temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius. ZCell is already installed throughout the country, from the Adelaide suburbs to the Queensland outback.
ZCell is easily scalable, from a single battery to dozens of batteries, as deployed in the Large Scale Battery (LSB) at Base64 in Kent Town. ZCell contains a zinc-bromine electrolyte that is inherently non-flammable, eliminating the fire safety concerns associated with legacy battery chemistries, especially in hot environments. ZCell also has a great environmental story, made of materials that are easy to recycle or reuse at their end of life. To learn more about ZCell, visit www.zcell.com
Greening Australia has been supporting WOMADelaide for over 12 years. More than 70,000 native trees and shrubs have been already been planted in South Australia, removing tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent from the atmosphere.
Greening Australia – The New Kangaroo Island WOMADelaide Forest Greening Australia in partnership with the WOMADelaide Foundation continues to offset the environmental footprint of the festival, with $2 from every WOMADelaide ticket purchased invested in native biodiverse tree planting.
This year a new forest on Kangaroo Island will be launched. The site has also been carefully chosen for its conservation merit. The location is unique as it will support a Sheoak grove for the rare Glossy Black Cockatoos, providing habitat and nesting opportunities. In addition, the site will help to conserve the rare endemic Narrow Leaf Mallee vegetation community – a native bushland found nowhere else on earth! Left: Kangaroo Island Kangaroo subspecies - Macropus fuliginosus fuliginosus. Rignt: Glossy Black Cockatoo - Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus.
Greening Australia and WOMADelaide are committed to ensuring more carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere than is generated by each festival.
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