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 well as his views on population and other aspects of sustainability. Peter Martin
27 July 7.30 pm, ‘Limits to Growth’, the 1972 classic from the Club of Rome that modelled the economic, consumption and population growth patterns of that time into the future – and scared the pants off the authors. Rob Fowler will also look at the latest revisits to this modelling. Adjunct Prof Rob Fowler
31 August 7.30 pm, Energy lessons for humanity from ‘The Upside of Down’ by Thomas Homer-Dixon. Dr John Coulter
28 Sept 7.30 pm, The Anthropocene (Speaker recommends https://theconversation.com/the-banality-of-ethics-in-the-anthropocene-part-1-44568).
John Tons
26 Oct 7.30 pm, Speaker is the author of “Challenged Earth: A Overview of Humanity’s Stewardship of Earth”, published by Imperial College Press in 2006. Prof Stephen Lincoln, Hon Visiting Research Fellow, Uni Adel.
30 Nov 7.30 pm tbc