ABC Learning Resources - check them out on the web

ABC Learning resources
http://splash.abc.net.au/media?id=30438&source=home

Find lots of great resources from protecting exposed lake beds during drought to creating a wetland.... brought to you by the ABC  for example:

Recycling household Items

Discover why plastic is harmful to our environment and how recycling helps to reduce its impact. Listen to Jon Dee, founder of Planet Ark, discuss the problem of plastic. Watch as a bag of household items are sorted to identify what can be recycled.

Environment Careers & Opportunities Expo; July 23rd

Do your students understand what a career in ecology can

offer? 

How about landscape architecture? Environmentalengineering? Or that almost every environmental consultancy, government department and eNGO employs media and public relations staff?

As the environmental sector continues to grow and diversify,
so do the career opportunities.

Wild Mob is partnering with the Land Trust, Nudgee Beach Environmental

Education Centre and The Smith Family to host an Environment
Careers & Opportunities (ECO) Expo, highlighting the
opportunities available to students, their teachers and parents.

The event will include:
• A range of Industry Professionals sharing their own experiences
• Study options including University and TAFE pathways
• Volunteer opportunities and Environmental Organisations
• Interactive displays and stalls
• Education workshops/breakout sessions
• Lucky door prizes

Date: Tuesday 23rd July 2013
Time:
• 1st Session: 10am - 2pm (Schools)
• 2nd Session: 3pm - 6pm (Students & Parents)
Venue: The Edge, Southbank, Brisbane
For more information and to register, please email Renee
at Wild Mob on: renee@wildmob.org

Invitation to public lecture - Rethinking Global Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene

Please join us for a free public lecture in Brisbane on Wednesday evening, 3rd April, called "Rethinking Global Environmental Law and Governance in the Anthropocene".

AWLA is pleased to be co-hosting this event with the Griffith University Law School.  The presentation is by Prof. Dr. Louis J. Kotzé, Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law of the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa.  His talk will be followed by a response from Professor Brendan Mackey, Griffith Climate Change Response Program and Associate Professor Afshin Akhavari, Griffith Law School.  The seminar will be chaired by Michelle Maloney, Australian Wild Law Alliance.

SEMINAR DETAILS

Date: Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm start
Venue: Ship Inn Function Room, Cnr Stanley and Sidon Street, Griffith University South Bank Campus
** A light supper will be served from 5.30 to 6pm **

RSVP - please reserve your place by emailing A/Prof Afshin Akhtarkhavari: a.akhtarkhavari@griffith.edu.au

Information about Professor Kotze's talk is set out below, and on the Griffith University website: http://wildlaw.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b5d06d46235932bfb4a96c966&id=12a9cdce30&e=8e0727c3f9

Hope to see you there!
Regards
Michelle

National Convenor
Australian Wild Law Alliance
convenor@wildlaw.org.au
www.wildlaw.org.au


"RETHINKING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND GOVERNANCE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE"

Public Lecture sponsored by the Griffith Law School and the Australian Wild Law Alliance

The word Anthropocene describes a new geological epoch that follows the Holocene epoch. It is the signifier of the period in which people have a devastating and overwhelming impact on the Earth and its systems. The Anthropocene also describes the new context in which we are going to have to consider how we should deal with the effects of global anthropogenic ecological change by means of, among others, global environmental law and governance. This will require new perspectives on and re-imagining orthodox social institutional constructs like global environmental law and governance and their ability to successfully mediate the human-environment interface.

This presentation reflects on how we will have to rethink global environmental law and governance as a result of the Anthropocene. It specifically attempts to identify a host of considerations that environmental lawyers will have to contemplate if global environmental law and governance were to better respond to the many challenges and complexities in the Anthropocene epoch.

At a more general level, the presentation introduces the Anthropocene into the environmental law and governance domain as a new discursive context that could hopefully assist in the appropriate future development of global environmental law and governance.

Respondents to the paper
Professor Brendan Mackey, Director of the Griffith Climate Change Response Program Assoc. Professor Afshin Akhtarkhavari, Griffith Law School

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER

Prof. Dr. Louis J. Kotzé is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law of the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa where he directs the post-graduate LLM programme in Environmental Law and Governance. He is the author, co-author, and co-editor of various publications on themes related to South African, regional and global environmental law. His recent monograph is entitled: Global Environmental Governance: Law and Regulation for the 21st Century (Edward Elgar, 2012).

His research focuses on environmental constitutionalism, human rights and the environment, and global environmental governance. He is assistant editor of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment (Edward Elgar) and Transnational Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press). Louis is a member of, among others, the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, the Volkswagen Foundation Global Young Faculty, the Global Ecological Integrity Group, the Environmental Law Association of South Africa and the South African Young Academy of Science.

He is an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellow; Visiting Professor of Environmental Law at the Justus Liebig University, Germany; the Deputy-director of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment; and a National Research Foundation-rated researcher. He was awarded the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Junior Researcher of the Year Award in 2011.

Autumn is here - get into the garden!!!

Free Good Gardening Expo - Redlands Sat March 23, 9 - 3

Saturday 23rd March 2013 from 9 - 3 Redlands Indigiscapes Centre, 17 Runnymede Rd Capalaba

• Grow native gardens and your own food - work with your local environment, not against it
• Learn about native gardening and how you can use natives to create habitats
• Find out about growing your own food at home
• Composting, worm farming, mulching and how to recycle your green waste
• Buy plants and seeds and find out about new and innovative products
• Get the help you need with advice from the experts
• Arts, Crafts, Music and Food

More info: 3824 8611
www.indigiscapes.com.au

Organic School Gardens:

A free resource for all Australian Schools!

In May 2010, the Biological Farmers of Australia (BFA) launched the Organic School Gardens Program - a free education program designed for primary schools to provide lessons and expert information for setting up and maintaining an organic school garden. The Program is based on the Australian Certified Organic Standard and uses organic systems to work in harmony with nature, keeping harmful chemicals out of our schools, water and air, creating a healthy environment for people, plants, and animals. 

The program is currently expanding to include more lessons on healthy eating, recipes, video resources and links to the Australian curriculum. In 2013 we look forward to sharing the new Organic Schools Program with all Australian schools.
 http://www.organicschools.com.au

Dealing with Intercultural

Mis-Understanding

Australian Curriculum: History describes cultures and clashes of cultures from indigenous through ancient civilisations to modern pop culture. In addition, the General Capability of Intercultural Understanding is embedded in the content and elaborations of all new curriculum areas. This professional learning experience can assist teachers develop the deep understanding required for implementation of the curriculum, as well as for dealing with cross-cultural misunderstandings within schools.

WHY SCHOOLS SHOULD TAKE PART:

Session 1: Joy Schultz, educational consultant and SEAQ secretary, will explore the concept of ‘culture’ and the bases of cultural differences and similarities. She will consider in a general sense the effects of culture change, culture shock, ethnocentrism and the effects of stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination in intercultural relationships, as well as pointing out teaching implications (especially for the new history curriculum) and some useful resources.

Session 2: Margaret Bornhorst, a cross-cultural specialist with a background in Multicultural Affairs Queensland, will provide more specific examples of some of the frustrations of dealing with people whose cultural behaviours seem very different from our own. She will inspire participants to be aware of their own beliefs and assumptions and the richness of their own culture. She will provide insights into the behaviours and attitudes we all need to develop in order to create positive outcomes and reduce tensions and negative perceptions.

Session 3: Joy and Margaret join with members of the Global Learning Centre to take teachers through some activities and resources they can use with their students to highlight the concepts dealt with earlier, and to create empathetic responses in students that can lead to the development of respect for others.

Please register by the DUE DATE - Tuesday 12th March 2013.

More information and online registration: Dealing with Intercultural Mis-Understanding

Best regards,
Social Educators' Association of Queensland