PLEASE NOTE: The Auction has closed For the second time, Kimberley artist and SPA member, Jackie Ellis has generously donated paintings to SPA. The 2 works are now to be auctioned and are described below. Both were created to raise awareness about the damaging effects of all too frequent fires in the Kimberley. For more
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Sustainable Population Australia Patrons: Hon. Bob Carr, Dr Paul Collins, Prof Tim Flannery, Em Prof Ian Lowe, Dr Mary E White Youth Ambassador: Ms Bindi Irwin population.org.au PO Box 85 Deakin West ACT 2600 Ph. 0434 962 305
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In September VicTas Branch President, Michael Bayliss, represented SPA as a speaker. the Regional Development Conference in Canberra. The presentation was entitled: ‘Should Regional Australia Absorb Our Population Growth?’ Given the context that the Victorian State Government is pushing to relocate the state’s population growth to the regions, and much of the conference was about
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This page is intended for use by Mark O’Connor to update the statistics contained in the Book Overloading Australia: How Governments and the Media dither and deny on population”. It can also be used for errata or to provide a page of additional material.
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AUGUST 8, sadly, is Earth Overshoot Day for 2016.
I say ‘sadly’ because this annual milestone is falling on an earlier day each year, and that is a bad thing.
Overshoot is a term that ecologists use to describe the situation where people consume more than the Earth can provide on an ongoing basis.
Once we have consumed beyond this point we are effectively eating into our resource reserves, much like a farmer who takes out more water from a dam or groundwater table than the rains can replace.
We can do this for a while, but eventually the dam runs dry.
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Saturday, September 10th 2016 at 2.00pm. Open to the public, all welcome, bring a friend. New venue: Hawthorn Library, Meeting rooms 3-4, 584 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn VIC 3122 Nominations for Committee Positions; before 28th August to [email protected] Guest Speaker: author and climate campaigner Philip Sutton: The growth economy – is there another way? followed by
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Timetable for ‘SPA Reviews’ meetings of SPA (SA-NT) June-Nov 2016 Last Wed in the month, 7.30 pm, Seminar Room, Conservation Council of SA, 111 Franklin St, Adelaide 29 June 7.30 pm, ‘For the Common Good’ – the 1989 classic by Herman Daly that introduced his ideas on the steady state economy to many readers, as
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Some weeks ago SPA sent a questionnaire to six political parties asking for their policy positions re population issues. In summary, we sought to find out from each of them: Their views on the optimum population for Australia and the basis for their figure; Whether they recognise that there are environmental constraints to population growth
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Submission to the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS & population in response to AAAS wields the censor’s hammer on US population issues
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