Meeting on the Quad Lawn, every Monday 12-1pm

Look out for the Enviro collective banner. If its raining, still come! - We'll find an alternative location.

EVENTS COMING UP:

1) Green drinks, starting week 2 on Wednesday at the Uni bar at 5PM. Come chat about just about anything and meet some new people. We'll have some sort of banner, table cloth, etc. so you can spot us!

2) Institute of Environmental Studies talks, March 3 and March 4

There are two talks coming up in the next week and both sound particularly interesting/relevant:

    Wednesday 3.30 -5PM 'The Brave New World of Carbon Trading' which is in the Law Building GO2

    Thursday 10 - 11.30AM 'Lives Per Gallon: The true cost of our oil addition' in the John Goodsell Building, room LG19

See the IES website for details. Hope to see you there!

3) Clean Up Australia day, March 7

This is a really worthwhile event that Im sure most people are familiar with. Im hoping the university campus is clean enough already but I encourage people to find a location in their area. The Clean Up website has a search function for this very purpose!

4) SEAN gig, March 19-21

This event is slightly ambiguously named (but bear with me!). SEAN stands for the Student Environment Activist Network which is the NSW branch of ASEN, the Australian Student Environment Network. This group is explained on their website, but includes all sort of smaller groups similar to the UNSW Enviro collective (and lots of like-mined people!). This weekend brings together enviro kids from all the Sydney universities, Wollongong, Newcastle and maybe a few more places in between. Its always super-chilled and can involve skill-shares, workshops, and lots of general discussion and hanging-out. It's an awesome opportunity to get back to nature, cook yummy food and meet some rad people.

Earth Hour, Saturday March 27 8.30PM

5) Flotilla in Newcastle, March 28

This might be the most fun you can have while defending the environment – highly recommended! The Flotilla is organised by Rising Tide, a strong climate advocacy/action group based in Newcastle. This is an annual event. They get a few hundred people out in kayaks (and other make-shift vessels!) into the channel that connects the coal exportation terminal to the open ocean. This shuts down the export of coal for most of the day. Since Newcastle is the largest coal exportation port in the world the amount of coal interrupted is significant. The action itself is super safe and non-arrestable, and the whole weekend is always a lot of fun :-)

6) Enviro week 5, March 29 – April 2

Each week on the Arc calender is allocated a theme (Arts, International, etc), and this semester we have been given Week 5. This is good as it should be before people start getting too busy with class work (and its the week before the mid-semester break). The week allows us to engage with other members of the UNSW community who might not be as environmentally aware as ourselves. We generally choose 2-3 events to put on over the week. Past events have included music, debates, forums, cake stall, BBQ at the Round House(great success!), breakfast, and a few other things that escape me right now(!). We will discuss Enviro week during collective. If anyone has any grand ideas they would like to put forward feel free to contact us at any time:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Well, I'm excited! Thanks for reading. We hope to see lots of you at the meeting on Monday.