Rising Tide Australia

The Sociology and Anthropology forum will be holding a seminar on the topic - Transitions to a Low Energy Future.

This event will be co-hosted by the National Students of Sustainability Conference at Newcastle University (Sunday - Tuesday).

All staff, students and members of the public are welcome. There is no charge.

Speakers will be:

Janet Millington - Permaculture Designer and coordinator of the Transitions
Towns Movement on the Sunshine Coast.

She will be speaking about the inevitability of a transition to a low energy
future in the context of peak oil and global warming and how we can start
preparing for this now. She will explain the ideas behind the
"Transitions Towns" movement - an international community initiative
to start us to develop strategies to deal with a low energy future. She will
give examples from the work of her community of the Sunshine Coast.

William Vorobbioff - From Climate Action Network in Newcastle. The coordinator
of the Transition Towns organisation in Newcastle, The Hunter.

He will be reporting on initiatives that are taking place in the Hunter Valley.

Terry Leahy - sociologist and permaculture educator.

He will be arguing that the capitalist mode of production cannot survive a
transition to a low energy future. He will consider the kinds of social
scenarios that might evolve out of this context.

The forum will be held in W301A; Behavioural Sciences Building. University
of Newcastle

Monday 7th July 2pm - 4 pm.