Workshops include: Creating Sustainable Cities: Public Transport, housing and urban design in Sydney's west. Carbon Tax and Climate Change: The consequences for workers rights and the environment. Powering the Future: Coal Seam Gas Vs Renewable Energies - Food, Consumerism and Sustainability. Immigration, Population and Refugees. 10am-5pm Plus Film Screening of Growing Change - A journey into Venezuela's food revolution. Speakers include: o Professor Peter Phibbs, from the University of Western Sydney's (UWS) Urban Research Centre, o Dr Tony Webb, UWS School of Natural Sciences o Dr John Kaye, NSW Greens MLC, o Helen Masterman-Smith, Chair NTEU NSW Environment Network, o Jess Moore, Stop CSG Illawara, o Chris Tobin, a Dharug man and author of The Dharug Story, an Aboriginal History of Western Sydney from 1788, o Simon Butler, GLW co-editor and co-author of Too Many People? Population, immigration and the environmental crisis, o Phil Bradley, NSW Teachers Federation activist and ParraCAN Exec member, o John Coleman, Rail Tram and Bus Union activist and public transport campaigner, o Peter Boyle, Socialist Alliance national co-convener. 9am registration $40/$20/$10 conc. To register phone Fred 0412 556 527 or 8070 9331. Email sydwest@greenleft.org.au www.greenleft.org.au
Climate Change-Social Change Conference
Saturday, June 30, 2012 - 10:00 to 17:00