Climate Change for Kids

Fri 16th | 10:30am - 11:15am
Artplay

hosted by | Beyond Zero Emissions
This event is a public talk designed to explore what is climate change, its impacts and the solutions. The talk will be targeted at primary students. The talk is the evolution of the standard climate change talk given by Adrian Whitehead over the last three year, which has included groups as young as 8 year old and as large as 140 people.

Adrian Whitehead and Paula Rowlings
Adrian Whitehead Adrian has campaigned on environment issues since 1988. His early campaigning was with the East Gippsland Coalition and Environment Victoria focused on the issue of native forest logging. Later he helped found the Otway Ranges Environment Network (OREN) whose campaign resulted in the creation of the Great Otway National Park. Adrian has also played roles in stopping the Stone Haven Power plant near Geelong and helping the marine park campaign in his local region, before founding futurenergy.org with Matthew Wright. His most recent success was runnin ga campaign to stop the Naas valley Dam in the ACT. Adrian recently left a full time Climate Change Campaign position in Canberra to return to Melbourne to lead the Beyond Zero Emission Campaign. Adrian holds a BSc from Melbourne University and a Graduate Diploma in Environmental Management from Deakin. His key activities are strategic planning, coordination and public outreach. Adrian co-ordinates and administers BZE. He campaigns and speaks on the issue of Climate Change, and on behalf of the group. Paula Rowlings Paula has a background in Heritage Conservation and campaigned to save important buildings from demolition - she now wants to help save an important planet. She is a permaculture person and is passionate about food plants and her 6 year-old daughter. Paula is working on office administration and materials development with Beyond Zero Emissions.