talk
february 2009
Leadership In Sustainability
This presentation will include the story of Larissa Brown, who at age 24 set up the influential not for profit organisation Centre for Sustainability Leadership, as well as stories of people around the world who are making a more sustainable future.
The presentation will also include thoughts on how to increase your cultural footprint. There is no master plan; the world you see around you is the collection of what people with large cultural footprints have made it.
Come and hear about how to increase your influence in sustainability and shape the world we live in.
Larissa Brown is the 2008 Australian Young Environmentalist of the Year. She is the founder and executive director of the Centre for Sustainability Leadership, a non profit organisation dedicated to supporting Australians to make their communities, workplaces and sectors more sustainable. She is the recipient of the 2006 British Council award for Communicating Climate Change and the 2006 Brian Robinson Fellowship. Larissa has personally interviewed 100 of world's greatest sustainability leaders across twenty countries and 5 continents on what it take to cause real systemic change towards a sustainable world. Larissa was named as one of Melbourne 100 most influential people and one of Melbourne's ten most influential environmentalists by The Age Magazine in 2007.
She was selected represent Asian and Pacific youth at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali in 2007 and is a judge in the Eureka awards for Youth Leadership on Climate Change, a member of the Ministers Reference Council on Climate Change Adaptation which advisors the state Environment Minister and participated in the Prime Minister's 2020 Summit in 2008.
Larissa has helped save a forest by creating an ecotourism lodge in Costa Rica, rehabilitated endangered primates and big cats in Bolivia, taught snowboarding in the USA and spent a year as a high school student in Japan.
Centre for Sustainability Leadership
There are hundreds of thousands of young people across the globe who can imagine a different, more sustainable future, but don't know how to go about creating it. The Centre for Sustainability Leadership is designed to bridge this gap by empowering young people to make their communities more sustainable.
We've tried to get people in positions of power to care, now we're going to get people who care into positions of influence.
The Centre for Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Program is the Centre for Sustainability Leadership's flagship training program. We select a group of residents of Victoria and New South Wales who demonstrate potential to lead efforts for the creation of a more sustainable world. Twenty-five participants are selected in each state from hundreds of applicants each year. In this intensive course, we develop the skills required to realise this potential. We provide cutting edge curriculum, open doors to unparalleled networks, and give participants access to leadership experience rarely available in the early stages of a career.