Adelaide Chapter Events
Location: Box Factory, 59 Regent St South, Adelaide.
Dates: Monday the 21st and 28th of May.
Arrive at: 6.45pm for a 7pm start.
Free entry. Limited seating. Bring a friend and please arrive early.
Date: Saturday 5th May
Time: 2:30 – 5:00pm
Venue: The Exeter Hotel, Rundle Street, Adelaide CBD
Social get-together at Adelaide’s favourite activists’ pub. Come along and meet the team, discuss important global issues and solutions, and get answers to your TZM-related questions.
If you can’t make it for 2:30 no worries – just come along when you can. If it’s not immediately obvious where we are just ask at the bar and they’ll direct you to us.
Date: Wednesday 9th May
Time: TBA
Venue: Adelaide CBD
In the second week of May TZM Adelaide is taking to the streets with the One Planet Project – a streets-awareness campaign designed to survey local understandings of global issues and connect with our locals on their terms.
Look our for us in the CBD and feel free to approach the team with your questions!
Date: Wednesday 9th May
Time: arrive 5:30 for 6pm start
Venue: University of South Australia, City West Campus, Allan Scott Auditorium, rear Hawke Building, 50-55 North Terrace
Informed perspectives on preparing for climate change from Dr MA Quassem – Chairman, National Disaster Management Advisory Committee, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Professor Fran Baum – director of the Southgate Institute of Health, Society and Equity, and Brian Caton, and expert on sea-level rise generally and locally.
Date: Wednesday 16th May
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: Adelaide University Student Learning Hub
Planning meeting – focusing mainly on planning for August’s Z-media festival – a collaboration of local sustainability-oriented organizations and groups over issues of global importance.
Please come along if you would like to take part in planning this event, but understand that this is not a social or orientation meeting – questions regarding the Movement in general can be addressed following the business-bit!
Date: Saturday 19th May
Time: 2pm – 4pm
Venue: Conservation Council of SA Meeting Room, 1st floor of 157 Franklin Street, Adelaide CBD
Geoff Mosley’s talk will focus on the generally neglected question of what a viable steady state alternative to the prevailing economic growth model would be like. In particular he will pinpoint the changes to our present system which could hasten the transformation. He will explain how we will need to incorporate measures in the transition to deal with the damage to the environment already caused. The changes he will advocate cover every major aspect of life including values, institutions for governance, social and trade relationships and the use of physical resources including energy. Geoff is a former CEO of the Australian Conservation Foundation and the current Australian Director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy.
Owing to limited seating capacity those intending to attend are advised to make an advance booking either by emailing: hermann {at} chariot.net(.)au or calling: 08 8264 4282.
Date: Saturday 26th May
Time: 6-9pm
Venue: Bliss Organic Cafe, Compton Street (off Gouger Street), Adelaide CBD
No need to book in, but please arrive by 6pm to ensure a seat and a prompt start. The screening will be followed by Q&A and a chance to gather further information regarding the Zeitgeist Movement and our actions on global issues.
That’s right – you usually hear the phrase “think global, act local”, and we’ve decided to take it a step further with our globally networked Movement of local community-based action.
When we act locally and network globally everyone can be an activist. Believe it or not it takes more than people like Martin Luther King and Gandhi to change the world - it takes little people like you and me! Taking small steps, making strong connections, and telling new, more positive stories are things we can all do to be the change we want to see.
The Zeitgeist Movement Australia’s latest Global Issues Awareness Campaign revolves around exactly that – local actions, globally networked. This month we’re kicking off a series of monthly local events, hosted by you! Yes – that’s right – hosted by you!
TZM Adelaide had a great post-Z-Day social meeting last night with a number of newbies attending and exchanging understandings and ideas over a few cold ones at the Exeter.
So what’s on for the rest of April? Coming up we have….
TZM SA will be attending the Community Meeting for the Murray, as organized by the Wilderness Society, and going for drinks and conversation afterwards. Come along and take the opportunity to have your say about the Murray River draft plan to restore the river to health.
Planning meeting for upcoming events including the Zeitgeist Media Festival in August. If you’ve never been to a meeting before but fancy helping out with organizing the event please come and join us!
Beyond Organic film screening & discussion hosted by Friends of the Earth (free, no need to book). Check our Michael Ableman and his work, including this documentary, here.
Urban agriculture: a workshop on growing for market and community, delivered by Michael Ableman and hosted by Friends of the Earth, bookings essential. For more information contact adelaide.office {at} foe.org(.)au, 0435 631 524 or visit www.adelaide.foe.org.au
Repowering Port Augusta Launch – hosted by Beyond Zero Emissions.
At what promises to be one of the most important events on the political calendar for 2012, Mark Ogge from the renewable energy think-tank, Beyond Zero Emissions, will launch the long-awaited Repowering Port Augusta report. This report presents the compelling economic and environmental case for why Port Augusta’s ageing coal-fired power stations should be replaced with concentrating solar thermal power (CST).
Drinks & food available in foyer from 6:30pm
Free screening of Into Eternity, hosted by The Zeitgeist Movement Adelaide, followed by Q&A.
Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels – that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous. Come and check out this new documentary, a sobering wake-up call to one of the most concerning global issues of our time: how to “safely” store radioactive waste, and the implications this has for our future.
*Please be aware that Bliss will be operating as a venue only, and that the kitchen will not be open for orders.
For any further details please email Kari on karin {at} zeitgeistaustralia(.)org or if you’re having trouble with directions sms 0419462877 (please note: sms only answered if specifically a request for directions).
It’s about time we had a social get-together, so here it is!
Date: Wednesday 4th April
Time: 6:30pm – 9-ish
Venue: The Exeter Hotel, Rundle Street, Adelaide CBD
Let’s take a little time out to unwind after Z-Day, connect with socially-conscious like-minds, and talk about sustainability solutions.
If this is your first time at a TZM social meet-up don’t be shy – just come on over and introduce yourself, and if you can’t figure out who we are (we don’t, after all, identify ourselves with tinfoil hats!), just ask at the bar!
What? Earthship biotecture workshop – theory and practice
When? Saturday 7th or Sunday 8th April
Where? Ironbank, Adelaide Hills
How much? $25 covers the tuition, materials, and lunch
Following Mike Reynolds’ tour of Australia Adelaide is fortunate enough to be able to present the opportunity to participate in an Earthship biotecture workshop!
Martin Freney, organizer of Reynolds’ Adelaide lecture and PHd candidate researching the sustainability of the Earthship biotecture model, is offering a 1-day hands-on workshop in the Adelaide Hills.
As the workshop is hands-on please note that spaces are limited and you will be getting your hands (if not everything else as well) dirty!
For further information and booking please see the attached Earthship Workshop flyer.
Date: Saturday 17th March 2012
Time: 11am – 6:30pm (doors open 10:30 for 11am start)
Location: Napier LG29 (lecture theatre), Adelaide University, North Terrace, 5000
Price: Free!! (Event pass available here)
Event Description: This year TZM’s annual flagship event consists of a series of thought-provoking presentations and lectures to inspire and empower that desire for change. Hosting academics, experts and activists in the fields of economic and environmental sustainability TZM invite you to learn how you can become the change you wish to see!
Livestreaming from other Z-Day events around Australia will be screened so that attendees can get the benefits of the best lectures Australia can offer without having to leave Adelaide!
Information packs, copies of the Zeitgeist Movement Australia’s magazine, Spirit of the Times, and DVDs of the Zeitgeist series of documentaries and lectures will be available on the day for donation only.
Please feel free to bring some food and drink to share – this is a non-profit event and any food provided by your hosts will be for donation only. In the spirit of community, freesharing is fully endorsed!
Check the full program here: Z-day 2012 adelaide program Or check it by clicking on one of the images below.
Hosted by The Zeitgeist Movement SA
Date: Saturday 17th March 2012
Time: 11am – 6:30pm (doors open 10:30 for 11am start)
Location: Napier 102 (lecture theatre), Adelaide University, North Terrace, 5000
Price: Free!! (Event pass available here)
Event Description: This year TZM’s annual flagship event consists of a series of thought-provoking presentations and lectures to inspire and empower that desire for change. Hosting academics, experts and activists in the fields of economic and environmental sustainability TZM invite you to learn how you can become the change you wish to see!
Details are as follows:
Date: Saturday 3rd March
Time: 2pm – 4pm
Venue: Adelaide University Student Learning Hub
University of Adelaide
The CLEANSA activism group will be holding a March for Survival in order to raise awareness of the issues with fossil fuels and the renewable energy alternatives.
WHERE : Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide South Australia (near the Crowne Plaza)
WHEN : Saturday 31st of March, from 1pm
COST : Free!!
Phone - Jemma, 0437 714 786