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Drawing together and showcasing the work of environment and social groups working for the necessary decade of transition to a safe climate and sustainable future.
Come along and learn how you can be involved in this inspiring and historic project.
For a brochure with further information on The Transition Decade click here.
Event details:
Sunday 14 February
12noon
Melbourne Town Hall, Swanston St, City.
Featuring:
The Governor of Victoria Professor David de Kretser AC
Uncle Bob Randall traditional owner of Uluru
Professor Will Steffen, Executive Director, ANU Climate Change Institute
Senator Christine Milne
The work of Australia's leading edge environmental and social organisations
...and more to be announced.
Dr. Keith Lovegrove unveiled the ANU's new solar thermal dish in September at the SolarPACES international solar thermal conference in Berlin to much acclaim. This will be the first time it will be presented in Melbourne.
Invented by Wolfgang over 25 years ago 1000s of Scheffler dishes are now installed at 100s of locations around the world. Wolfgang Scheffler has made his dish designs and associated intellectual property available for free to create a solar world.
Beyond Zero's Eva, Melissa and Matt talk to Dave Turner a dedicated former engineer and researcher at Solar Systems. Solar Systems is a leading Australian company that has gone into administartion and was developing Concentrating Photovoltaic technology for large scale centralised power plants. They had just been going through the final stages of a cost down process and production automation. Without serious Australian support including feed-in tariffs and/or loan guarantees the sun may never shine on one of Australia's contributions to the global solar revolution.
Paul Gipe, author of 'Wind Energy Basics' talks to Scott Bilby about how the Canadian province of Ontario plans to close all its coal power plants by 2014, how people in Vermont wanting to own their own energy sources pushed politicians into instituting feed-in tariffs, and much more. And a warning for Australians: Beware FITINOS - Feed-in Tariffs in Name Only!
