Learn the skills to become an effective voice for the environment!

• Environment, conservation and sustainability groups
• Environmental volunteers
• Environmental, communications or politically active students
• Activists, advocates and campaigners
• Environmental educators & community engagement professionals
• Government employees in environment, NRM and sustainability.

​Hear from experts and learn from workshops and case studies:

• Lish Fejer, winner best eco blog 2014, TV presenter, science communicator
• Tim Hollo, former Director of Communications Australian Greens, Director Green Music Australia
• Isaac Astill, FossilFree Australia, Bob Brown Young Environmentalist of Year 2013
• Dr Merryn McKinnon & Dr Will Grant, ANU Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science
• Josh Creaser, 350.org Australia
• Dr Gary Butrriss, Research School of Management
• Dr Andrew Pike, Managing Director, Ronin Films 
• Larissa Nicholson, The Canberra Times
• Gary Humphries, former Canberra Senator, former ACT Chief Minister and Minister for Environment
• Craig Thomler, social media expert and blogger
• Natalie Maras, Wildlife & Botanical Artists Inc

What you might learn:

• Social media - Facebook, Twitter, Blogging
• Activism as a communications tool
• Film
• Getting a journalists attention
• Values-based campaigning
• Community organising
• Persuasive conversations for recruitment
• Communicating science
• Creative communications

Learn how to be a digital citizen in a networked society for the benefit of the environment! Whether you want to get more volunteers, get the local journo's to run a story, promote your group to get helpers and members, get Governments to sit up and take notice, educate on an issue - this is the forum for you!

DETAILS

When: Saturday 29 March 2014

Time: 9am-4:30pm, inlcuding presentation of the ACT Region Environment Awards

Venue: ANU Commons Function Centre, Rimmer St, Canberra (Google Map here) - next door to the ANU Co-Op Cafe

Cost: $45 members/concession, $55 non-members - includes morning and afternoon tea and vegetarian buffet lunch

Payment Options: Securely online here using Paypal or a Credit/Debit Card or contact 02 6229 3200.

ACT Region Environment Awards

The ACT Region Environment Awards will also be presented at the Symposium in the afternoon to an Individual, Group and Youth. These Awards recognise those who have made an outstanding contribution to protecting the environment.

Earth Hour at Parliament House - Optional Activity

It is Earth Hour night! The Symposium and Awards will be followed by optional participation in fun Earth Hour activities culminating in the main national Earth Hour event at Parliament House, later that evening. See the event details here.

Come together on the lawns of Federation Mall outside Parliament House at 6:30PM on Saturday 29 March to shine a light on climate change. Bring your family, picnic blankets and snacks and join your community for an open-air screening of the premier Earth Hour documentary “It’s Lights Out for the Reef: an Earth Hour special.” Together we’ll light candles against the backdrop of Parliament House and make it clear that Australians of all walks of life want to see more ambitious action on climate change. A WWF Event for Earth Hour.

Questions?

Email Kylee Carpenter or call 02 6229 3200.