Fri 19th February 4.00 pm - 4.50 pm
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Climate Thought to Climate Action
An audience-interactive session that explores a way of thinking about climate change and the human-environment interaction that enables us to make radical sustainability transformations to our own lives and to those of others close to us. The facilitators have been working with these ideas, jointly, as teachers and practitioners for 40 years, they have thousands of "graduate graduates".
They begin from the idea that people construct their world through extensive social agreements about how it should be. So, the environmental degradation we experience all around us is a social "construct" dictated by the social forms we have created and set in
place. These can be rearranged, difficult as this may be. Both facilitators are engaged in doing it and will share how they transform this idea into action..
Presenters
Josh Floyd works with organisations from the corporate, government and community sectors to develop improved decision making and action through
rigorous exploration of their emerging future contexts. He has taught at graduate level in both the Strategic Foresight Program and the National
Centre for Sustainability at Swinburne University. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Asian Foresight Institute in Bangkok.
Prior to Josh's strategic foresight and sustainability practice, he was a mechanical engineer for ten years in metallurgical technology development and commercialisation. He has a 1 year old son and has been a commuter cyclist for many years.
Frank Fisher is Professor of Sustainability at Swinburne University and inaugural National Environmental Educator of the Year (2007). He was an
electrical engineer for a decade then, after retraining, took the first Victorian lectureship in environmental science at Monash University where he worked for nearly 30 years. Frank has been chronically ill for nearly 50 years (Crohn's & consequences), has lived through 30+ operations, lives on 40 pills/injections per day and therefore has been a health consumer activist for 30 years. He has two 30 year old sons and his partner is a farmer who, against the rural Australian odds, strives to farm greenly. Frank has been a commuter cyclist for 40 years.