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MODELS FOR SUSTAINABILITY

1994 Winter season at the ecoversity
July 13 to August 3

The fourth season of Ecoversity forums, hosted by ITF in association with the Australian Conservation Foundation and Radio 3RRR's Earth Bulletin and Mid-Week Crisis.With guest presenter, Richard Slaughter, Centre of Futures Studies, Melbourne University.

1. July 13, 1994
HOW ARE WE TO LIVE?
with philosopher Peter Singer, co-director of the Institute of Ethics and Public Affairs, deputy director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University and author of more than 20 books including Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals and the best selling How are we to live? ethics in an age of self-interest (Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, 1993), in discussion with Rick Slaughter.

2. July 20, 1994
GREEN TECHNOLOGIES
with Daryl Reeve, Australia Centre for Cleaner Production, and environmental consultant Alan Pears of Sustainable Solutions Pty Ltd.

3. July 27, 1994
BEYOND THE NATION STATE: ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY POLITICS
with Harriyet Babacan, Office of Multicultural Affairs; Yorta Yorta descendant Sharon Firebrace; and Jane Gronow who has just returned from Bosnia, where she worked with women refugees for Austcare.

4. August 3, 1994
MEN RETHINKING MEN
with Andy Hawser, co-founder of the Melbourne Men's Centre and David Tacey, director of the Centre for Archetypal Studies, La Trobe University, and author of Patrick White: fiction and the unconscious (Oxford University Press 1988), and the best selling Edge of the sacred: transformation in Australia (Harper Collins 1995). Dave's latest book is The mythical male should be out soon.

Re-posted March 2004.

 
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