Come to a workshop at an urban, organic, African farm run by a Congolese refugee! The farm grow African food for refugees in the area, with the aim of supplying traditional African vegetables to Sydney's migrant community. As climate change compels us to reduce carbon emissions, urban gardens that provide locally produced food are an important model to explore.

Speakers include Kamal Fadel, Polisario (Western Saharan) Ambassador to Australia; Clinton Fernandes,Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW; Gennaro Gervasio, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University

Sydney Law School, Uni of Sydney

A midweekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-Deepwater Horizon

The aim of the workshop is to provide an understanding of Indigenous peoples engagement in the international human rights framework and up to date information on current activities and agenda’s. Organised by the Indigenous Peoples Organisations Network and Australian Human Rights Commission

Australian Human Rights Commission, Level 8, 133 Castlereagh Street, Sydney.

Most of the people who take Adapting-In-Place, reasonably enough, are doing so because they intend to stay where they are or fairly nearby in the coming decades. They know that they may not be in the perfect place, but for a host of reasons - inability to sell a house, job or family commitments, love of place...you name it, they are going to stay.

A hurricane is a dynamic system.

We are told that in the US, the food on our table has traveled an average of 1500 miles and consumed 9 calories of energy for each food calorie on our plate.