Future Tasmania

Liila Hass

Exploring Tasmanian Futures 2007:
Our Future, Our Health: Water, Air and Soil

Speakers include:
• Professor Ian Lowe, President, Australian Conservation Foundation: “Bio-diversity, climate change and the scientist”
FUTURE TASMANIA
Launceston Conference
Saturday, 25 August 2007
Launceston Tram Shed 9:30 – 6:00
Exploring Tasmanian Futures 2007:
Our Future, Our Health: Water, Air and Soil

Speakers include:
• Professor Ian Lowe, President, Australian Conservation Foundation: “Bio-diversity, climate change and the scientist”
• Dr. Michael Towsey, Prout Institute of Australia:
“Two Visions of the Future of Agriculture”
• Robert Belcher, Chair, Sustainable Agricultural Communities Australia (SACA) and Snowy High-country Farmer: “Corporate Farming: The Way of the Future?”
• Charles Arnold, Mayor, King Island: “The Implications of the PAL Policy for Tasmanian Agriculture”
• Dr. Jim Markos, Launceston Respiratory Physician:
“The Tamar Valley Wood Smoke Story”
• Kim Eastman and Phil Tattersall, Facilitators, Tasmanian Community Resource Auditors: “What is Community-based Auditing, and How Does it Work?”
• Jon Bryan, Marine Naturalist: “Tasmania’s Marine Environment: Issues and Opportunities”
Professional Facilitators:
Steve Gould and Patricia Kelly, Futures Facilitators.
Cost (includes catered lunch, morning & afternoon tea): $50 waged, $40 conc., $25 students, members discounts. Website/phone registration.

Field Trip: North Eastern Highlands
Sunday, August 26th, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Cost (bring your own thermos and lunch): $20 per person; $18 conc.
Departure: Launceston College, Brisbane St., Launceston

For more information, contact:
Liila Hass and Rob Blakers 6223-2537 or
Frank Nicklason and Marion Seath 6231-4553
Email: info@futuretasmania.com
www.futuretasmania.com