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David Suzuki: Challenges for the 21st Century
NEW PLAN: Tuesday 19th September - Perth 6:00pm David Suzuki speaking about his autobiography at: The Lady Wardle Performing Arts Centre, St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School, Elliott Road, Karrinyup Hosted by Boffins Bookshop. MC – Geoff Hutchison – ABC Radio Perth Morning Show Cost: $15 adults, $10 students/concession, with proceeds to be donated to the David Suzuki Foundation.Tickets: contact St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School on phone 9341 9131 Accepted credit cards: Visa, MasterCard, Bankcard. Maximum of 10 tickets per sale
PUBLIC LECTURE: DAVID SUZUKI: CHALLENGES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY - FAREWELL TOUR
- A UWA Extension Spring School Event
Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:30 - Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre
Dr David Suzuki : Biologists inform us that human beings appeared on earth about 150,000 years ago on the savannahs of Africa. Compared to the other animals that shared the plains with us, we were not impressive in numbers, size, speed, strength or sensory acuity. Our survival attribute was the most complex structure in the known universe, the human brain that endowed us with immense memory, curiosity and creativity. It invented the concept of "future" and thus was the only animal that realized we could shape the future by our actions in the present. Foresight, looking ahead, recognizing opportunities and hazards and choosing accordingly was a strategy that more than compensated for our physical and sensory deficits. We have become the most numerous mammal on the planet and supplemented by technology, consumptive demand and global economics, we have become a new kind of force, altering the physical, chemical and biological features of the planet on a geological scale as no other species ever has. Now we have all the amplified predictive capacity of scientists, supercomputers, engineers and telecommunications and for over 40 years, the leading scientists of the world have been telling us we are headed down a dangerous path - altering the atmosphere, poisoning earth, air and water, deforesting the planet, extinguishing species and so on. The disaster that hurricane Katrina wreaked on New Orleans had been warned of for years, but now we are ignoring the very strategy for survival and ignoring these warnings. Why are we turning our backs on our most important ability and what can we do about it? David Suzuki will discuss the answers to these urgent questions.
David Suzuki has published 32 books including the most widely used genetics textbook in the United States. In addition to scholarly and popular works on genetics, he has written extensively about ecology, technology, the future and his own life. To all of his writing, David brings his gift for exploring and sharing complex ideas with clarity and passion. Don't miss this opportunity to hear David speak in Perth on his farewell tour of Australia.
Monday 7.30-9pm Sep 18 $39 ($34 online) Bookings on 6488 2433 orhttp://www.extension.uwa.edu.au
PUBLIC LECTURE: DAVID SUZUKI: CHALLENGES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY - FAREWELL TOUR
- A UWA Extension Spring School Event
Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:30 - Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre
Dr David Suzuki : Biologists inform us that human beings appeared on earth about 150,000 years ago on the savannahs of Africa. Compared to the other animals that shared the plains with us, we were not impressive in numbers, size, speed, strength or sensory acuity. Our survival attribute was the most complex structure in the known universe, the human brain that endowed us with immense memory, curiosity and creativity. It invented the concept of "future" and thus was the only animal that realized we could shape the future by our actions in the present. Foresight, looking ahead, recognizing opportunities and hazards and choosing accordingly was a strategy that more than compensated for our physical and sensory deficits. We have become the most numerous mammal on the planet and supplemented by technology, consumptive demand and global economics, we have become a new kind of force, altering the physical, chemical and biological features of the planet on a geological scale as no other species ever has. Now we have all the amplified predictive capacity of scientists, supercomputers, engineers and telecommunications and for over 40 years, the leading scientists of the world have been telling us we are headed down a dangerous path - altering the atmosphere, poisoning earth, air and water, deforesting the planet, extinguishing species and so on. The disaster that hurricane Katrina wreaked on New Orleans had been warned of for years, but now we are ignoring the very strategy for survival and ignoring these warnings. Why are we turning our backs on our most important ability and what can we do about it? David Suzuki will discuss the answers to these urgent questions.
David Suzuki has published 32 books including the most widely used genetics textbook in the United States. In addition to scholarly and popular works on genetics, he has written extensively about ecology, technology, the future and his own life. To all of his writing, David brings his gift for exploring and sharing complex ideas with clarity and passion. Don't miss this opportunity to hear David speak in Perth on his farewell tour of Australia.
Monday 7.30-9pm Sep 18 $39 ($34 online) Bookings on 6488 2433 or
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(I'm enjoying that UWA events newsletter. It mentioned a philosophy lecture on colour recently that had me in stitches over who would even think up such a topic.)
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Ah well, it was all a bit last minute.
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BTW, have been meaning to ask, how did your LT tagging go? Did you finish entering all your books? I've ordered a barcode scanner off ebay ($57 including postage) so if you need to finish any off I can come over. I have a book to give ascetic_hedony anyway.
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I've uploaded them all but need to review some tags, also covers are absent and sometimes wrong. Thank you for the offer! Ditto if you want any help I'd love to come and do stuff with you.
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Would love to do a LT nerd thing at my mum's house as most of my rare and signed Australian literary fiction is there. Have almost done the whole house here (which is pretty much my books from the last two years + dr_mickey_k's).
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Tuesday 19th September - Perth 6:00pm David Suzuki speaking about his autobiography at: The Lady Wardle Performing Arts Centre, St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School, Elliott Road, Karrinyup Hosted by Boffins Bookshop. MC – Geoff Hutchison – ABC Radio Perth Morning Show Cost: $15 adults, $10 students/concession, with proceeds to be donated to the David Suzuki Foundation.Tickets: contact St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School on phone 9341 9131 Accepted credit cards: Visa, MasterCard, Bankcard. Maximum of 10 tickets per sale
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No more tickets.