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Climate Camp - Info Session UNSW - This Tuesday
UNSW info session: what to expect from Climate Camp
When: Tuesday 7th October (Week 11), 4.30-5.30pm
Where: Quad 1001, next to the Stationery Re-use Centre
Who: Anyone planning on attending, thinking about it or just curious about Climate Camp.
We hope to help organise some common trains for people to get as well as connect those without tents/ equipment etc. with those who have it. We will be mainly camping in the SEAN (Student Environment Activist Netwok) neighbourhood who will be organising some communal meals but you will need to bring some food and snacks - but more details on this later and at the meeting. To help with putting people in contact with eachother, please fill in the form at this link and it will help us keep you up to date.
More info about Climate Camp is from www.climatecamp.org.au or for UNSW group specifics email
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From October 9 - 11th, come along with students from UNSW along with hundreds perhaps thousands of other people for a few days of workshops, alternative living and a day of peaceful direct action at a coal mine recently given the go ahead to expand its life time by some decades. Email us to find out more information or to talk with people who went to last years climate camp to find out what awaits. Feel free to come just for a day even.
University Sustainability - Leith Sharp - Tuesday October 20th - 1pm
Info: http://www.unsw.envirocollective.com/unswsustainability
Insights from a UNSW student / staff alumna who founded UNSW's green campus program in 1995 and went on to found and lead Harvard's Green Campus Initiative for the past 9 years with amazing results.
Interested in University Sustainability? Want to get some pointers on how to move your own institution in a more sustainable direction? Come along and be inspired.
What: Public Presentation with questions
When: Tuesday 20th October, 1:00 pm
Where: Law Theatre, The Law Building, UNSW
RSVP:
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Info: http://www.unsw.envirocollective.com/unswsustainability
350.org - October 24th
http://www.350.org/ Take a stand with people from all over the world for a safe climate future. There will be actions all over the world and all over sydney. If you would like to find out more about an action near you or want to help promote this event please get in touch.
Contact point: Alex -
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V Week Challenge - This week
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AIM: to raise awareness of the impact of animals on climate change
ONE week - to put the needs of others and the planet's ahead of our own, and go vegetarian for that week! and if you're already vegetarian, go vegan!
FACT
Going on a Vegan diet will save 5.4 tons of CO2 per year. (Eshel G, and P.A. Martin, Earth Interactions, 2006).
That's approx. the weight of 2.5 cars
"The livestock sector is a major player, responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions measured in CO2 equivalent. This is a higher share than transport."
FAO report, Livestock's Long Shadow, 2006. This study assumed methane was 25 times more potent than CO2.
Over 100 years, methane = 25 times CO2
Over 20 years, methane = 72 times CO2
(IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, 2007)
Volunteer at Thought Foods - UNSW Food Co-operative
This is a busy time of year, but especially so at Thoughtful Foods (the UNSW food co-operative), where we need heaps of volunteers to make sure we can stay open. You can help out by packing fruit+veg on a Thursday morning, refilling barrels with yummy food, and generally lending a hand.
We most urgently need people to volunteer from 10am-12pm on Thursday mornings, to make sure the fruit+veg boxes get packed.
If you're interested but have more questions, please email
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, or drop into the food co-op (located on the outside of the Roundhouse, facing the unigym.
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