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January 30, 2007Jobs – NSW
February 1, 2007Economists & environmentalists to talk at a free ‘Future Leaders’ event
A reader has emailed us about forum, so we’re passing it on…sounds as though it could be really stimulating and informative and the group behind it, Future Leaders, is certainly worth knowing about.
Speakers at the event
- Ms Cheryl Batagol – Chairman, Melbourne Water.
- Dr Noel Purcell– Group General Manager, Stakeholder Communications for Westpac Banking Corporation.
- Dr Richard Denniss – Economist and strategic adviser to Senator Bob Brown.
- Professor David Yencken AO – former Head of Environmental Planning, University of Melbourne.
Venue: BMW Edge, Federation Square (cnr Flinders & Swanston Streets)
Date: Thursday 15 February 2007
Time: 6.00 – 7.30pm (doors open 5.45pm)
RSVP: rsvp@futureleaders.com.au
About Future Leaders
The Future Leaders Forums expose senior students to leadership initiatives, career concepts and inspiring role models. They provide opportunities for students to focus on their career options and leadership skills. They learn about the success of young people currently working in areas such as law, medicine, science, media, business, the arts, and the community sector. There is no charge for attendance at the Forum.
Indigenous Future Leaders
Future Leaders is committed to including Indigenous young people in all Future Leaders activities. Schools are encouraged to nominate Indigenous students to attend the Future Leaders Forums and there is a young Indigenous leader speaking at every Forum. Future Leaders supports travel for Indigenous students.
More about the speakers
Cheryl Batagol is Chair of Melbourne Water and Deputy Chair of Sustainability Victoria. She has 30 years’ experience in the waste management industry with previous positions including Chairperson of EcoRecycle Victoria, Director of City West Water and involvement with EPA Victoria and the Co-operative Research Centre for Pollution Control and Waste Management.
Noel Purcell is Group General Manager, Stakeholder Communications for Westpac Banking Corporation. Previously he was a senior executive in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, The Office of National Assessments, and The Australian Bureau of Statistics. He is on the Global Governing Board, and Chairman of the Deployment Committee of the Caux Round Table.
Richard Denniss is Strategic Adviser to Senator Bob Brown. He was previously Deputy Director of The Australia Institute, Chief of Staff to Senator Natasha Stott Despoja and Economics lecturer at the University of Newcastle. He writes regularly for newspapers and magazines, has published extensively in academic journals and was the co-author Affluenza.
David Yencken is Patron of the Australian Conservation Foundation and founder of the Australian Collaboration. His previous positions include Head of Environmental Planning, The University of Melbourne, Chairman, Australian Heritage Commission. His recent books are Resetting the Compass: Australia’s Journey towards Sustainability and Into the Future: The Neglect of the Long Term in Australian Politics.
The list of organisations supporting The Australian Collaboration, a group obviously closely associated with Future Leaders, gives an idea of the scope of this event. Another source of info worth keeping an eye on!
2 Comments
The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.
The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.
Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.
Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.
Subject : Environment can never be saved as long as cities exist.
Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.
If there are no gaps there is no emotion.
Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.
When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.
There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.
People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.
Emotion ends.
Man becomes machine.
A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety.
FAST VISUALS /WORDS MAKE SLOW EMOTIONS EXTINCT.
SCIENTIFIC /INDUSTRIAL /FINANCIAL THINKING DESTROYS EMOTIONAL CIRCUITS.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY CANNOT FEEL PAIN / REMORSE / EMPATHY.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY WILL ALWAYS BE CRUEL TO ANIMALS/ TREES/ AIR/ WATER/ LAND AND TO ITSELF.
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PlanetSave
EarthNewsWire
sushil_yadav
I know lots of people who live in busy cities like Sydney who are unable to spend any real time outside the city without feeling anxious.
As a person who used to spend plenty of time isolated I am finding this to be a sacry change. I worry about the legacy cities leave to future generations who grow up with only one “full” experience of life and may never get to experience those real slow moments.