Eastern Sydney, NSW: Eastern Suburbs Eco Forum

We’re inviting you to an event celebrating the positive stories and wonderful climate solutions available to us. There will be 2 panel discussions with fantastic speakers talking about how we can build a healthy future for us and for our planet. We will also have activities for families with kids such as face painting, planting, and painting endangered species, a recycling challenge amongst other things.

Our Together We Can event will:

Connect you with local environmental groups who are doing important work around environmental protection and conservation.

Captivate and inspire you with a line-up of excellent speakers. Panel 1 will start at 2:45 with:

• Ambrose Hayes on his experience as one of the Eight Kids and a Nun case. 
• Freya Cole from ACF on Together We Can campaign – a movement to halve climate pollution this decade.
• Dorothee Babeck from Bob Brown foundation on koala protection and citizen scientists.
• Nicola Burford from ACF Community Inner West. 

Panel 2 will start at 4:30pm with:

• Dr Mariana Mayer Pinto from UNSW Centre for Marine Science and Innovation on living seawalls and revitalising Sydney’s seaweed forest.
• UNSW’s Dr John Carr on preparing urban communities for a sustainable future.
• Elizabeth Sullivan, Climate Campaigner from Australian Conservation Foundation, on paving the way to nett zero emissions with green hydrogen.
• Andrew Ward from Regen Farmers Mutual on regenerative Farming  practices.

Right now all eyes are on our elected and aspiring representatives. If there was ever a ‘paramount time’ to join the movement, today would be it. What we need to do is demonstrate our big, diverse and powerful movement behind the call for action on climate.

• What: Together We Can Eastern Suburbs Eco Forum
• When: Saturday, 26 March 2022, 2-6pm
• Where: Margaret Whitlam Recreation Centre, Waverley Park, Bondi Junction.
• Getting there: it's a 1km walk from Bondi Junction station or a short walk from 333 bus stop at the top of Bondi Rd.

We hope to see you there to continue the fight for our climate.

Thanks for standing with your community and our incredible planet.

ACF Community Eastern Sydney is part of a network of independently organised, volunteer-run groups in the ACF community. ACF will pass on your contact details to the host for the purpose of running the event.

It's up to all of us to slow the spread of COVID-19. Please stay home and do not attend this event if you feel unwell or if you are showing any COVID symptoms (fever, shortness of breath, flu-like symptoms such as coughing, sore throat or fatigue). Additionally, do not attend the event if you have been diagnosed with COVID-19, or have had direct contact with an individual diagnosed with or suspected to have COVID-19 in the past 14 days. Stay up to date with public health guidelines from australia.gov.au.