Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, 15 Blackall St, Barton ACT 1.30 to 5pm Saturday 14 April 2018 Speakers – first session: Dr Chris McMurray - 'Population Pressure in the Pacific: not just a matter of numbers' Since 1982 Chris McMurray has held various teaching and visiting appointments in ANU's School of Demography. From 1998 until 2002 she […]
SPA was founded in 1988 in Canberra under the name Australians for an Ecologically Sustainable Population. It is appropriate that we celebrate our 30th birthday in the same city! Date: 14 April, 2018. AGM begins: 11am (come at 10.30am for morning tea). Venue: Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, 15 Blackall Street, Barton, […]
The SPA NSW branch will be hosting its first event of 2018, on the theme of partnering. It will be an afternoon of speakers, discussion and audience input into NSW SPA activities. For those who will be in NSW on the weekend of the 24th Feb, this will be a very worthwhile event to attend. […]
In what is now a yearly tradition, Sustainable Population Australia will be at Melbourne’s Sustainable Living Festival (SLF) in February. Volunteers from the Victoria and Tasmania branch will be holding a SPA information stall during the SLF Big Weekend. The Big Weekend runs from 9 - 11 February at Melbourne’s Federation Square and Birrarung […]
This year the NSW Branch of SPA is hosting the National AGM of SPA in Sydney at the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts (SMSA), 280 Pitt St Sydney, in the Mitchell Theatre (Level 1) on Saturday 29th April. Current members are welcome to participate in the AGM at 10am. All members of the public […]
All events are in the Seminar Room, ground floor, Conservation Council of SA, 111 Franklin St, Adelaide City Date "SPA Review" Event Speaker Book and Blog Alert Tues 28 March 7.30pm The Arrival of the Anthropocene John Tons Michael Lardelli Wed 3 May 7.30 pm Using the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) to present a […]
Humanity's ten great challenges and how we can overcome them TIME: 2pm Saturday 11th March VENUE: HAGSOC room, Cook Community Hub, 41 Templeton Street, Cook Canberrra ACT Julian Cribb is a Canberra author and science communicator. Surviving the 21st Century is his ninth book. Following The Coming Famine (2010) and Poisoned Planet […]
The Victoria and Tasmania branch will be making our presence felt during Victoria's Sustainable Living Festival this month. During the Big Weekend 10 - 12 of February, we will be having a stall near Federation Square Melbourne. Volunteer branch members will be actively engaging with the wider public on population sustainability and its relation to […]
Every day we hear politicians, economists and media commentators telling us how important it is to grow our economy and that the faster it grows, the better off we are all going to be. But how credible is this plan for perpetual growth, considering that many of the resources we use are finite in nature? […]
Following the National Annual General Meeting of Sustainable Population Australia, on Saturday April 23rd, the Victorian and Tasmanian branch is holding a seminar from 1.00pm to 4.00pm on “Attitudes and communication in population and the environment” The seminar will feature the following speakers, Mark Allen, Population, Permaculture and Planning, spokesperson, Dr. Katharine Betts , population sociologist, Hon Kelvin Thomson MP,environmentalist and high profile sustainable population advocate and Victorian treasure, comedian, Rod Quantock
Venue Hawthorn Arts Centre , 360 Burwood Rd. Hawthorn Vic 3122- Both members and non-members are welcome to attend.
2015 Sustainable Population Seminar - Population Dialogue II Population and Consumption - The Sustainability Dialogue Venue: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts (SMSA), 280 Pitt St, Sydney Date: Saturday 21st November 2015 Time: 9am to 5pm (Register from 8.30am ) Cost: $30 / $20 (includes Lunch, Morning and Afternoon teas) Registration: Via Try Booking For more information […]
Bill Ryerson
President, Population Media Center
Thursday 19th November at 7pm
Conservation Council of SA, 111 Franklin St Adelaide
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