Guest Speakers

February 2012 Guest Speaker: Graham Carter

For Graham Carter sustainability is all about innovation and leaving a legacy for our children’s children. More about Graham

December 2011 Guest Speaker: Abigail Forsyth

Entrepreneur and mother of two, co-creator and founder of KeepCup, Abigail Forsyth has always been a passionate problem solver. More about Abigail

November 2011 Guest Speaker: Tanya Ha

Tanya Ha is an award-winning Australian environmentalist, best-selling author, science journalist and sustainable living advocate. More about Tanya

October 2011 Guest Speaker: Steve Morriss

Steve Morriss, engineer-entrepreneur, does not believe in waste. An executive director of Close the Loop, Steve came up with the original game-changing business model that is now responsible for the collection and recycle of 5.5 tonnes of e-waste materials a day. More about Steve

September 2011 Guest Speaker: Bruce Jeffreys

Bruce Jeffreys is on a mission to transform our cities by reducing the number of cars on our local streets. With Nic Lowe, Bruce co-founded GoGet CarShare, Australia's first car sharing program that today is the world's fastest growing scheme. More about Bruce

August 2011 Guest Speaker: Mike Hill

Mike Hill is passionate about protecting the environment and building dynamic and robust local communities. Mike is co-director of WestWyck, a company transforming the former Brunswick West Primary School into an eco-village. More about Mike

July 2011 Guest Speaker: Danny Williams

Danny Williams is the founder of ProGreen Biofuels which has recently been overtaken by “Renewable Energy & Biofuels Limited (REBL)”. ProGreen Biofuels is an Australian company focused on providing Australians with security and a renewable option for a healthy future economic environment. More about Danny

June 2011 Guest Speaker: Malcolm Rands

Malcolm Rands is the Founder and CEO of ecostore Company Limited
Since 1994, ecostore have researched and brought to market NZ’s leading range of healthy, eco friendlier household cleaners, body care, pet care and organic gardening products. More about Malcolm

May 2011 Guest Speaker: Richard Gilmore

Richard joined Earthwatch in 2007 firstly as Operations and Programs Director and was appointed Executive Director that same year. Earthwatch is a not-for-profit environmental organisation which engages people in scientific field research and education to promote the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment. More about Richard

April 2011 Guest Speaker: Jennifer Lauber Patterson

Jennifer is a specialist in environmental and energy markets with over 20 years experience in the banking and energy sectors. In 2009 Jennifer moved to NAB where she is currently heading up the development of the bank’s carbon trading capability. More about Jennifer

March 2011 Guest Speaker: Brad Krauskoph

Brad is the co-founder and executive director of Hub Melbourne. Brad is an entrepreneur who has worked, lived and studied in Australia, Spain, USA and South America. More about Brad

February 2011 Guest Speaker: Sean Willmore

Sean Willmore was a Victorian park ranger, now documentary maker, festival director, author and Director of The Thin Green Line, a foundation supports the families of Park rangers killed, and prevents further ranger deaths, on the frontline of conservation around the world. More about Sean

November 2010 Guest Speaker: Luke Chamberlain

Luke Chamberlain is the Wilderness Society's Victorian Forest Campaigner. Luke’s role is to educate the public about the role that forest and ecosystems play in the international carbon cycle and to advocate for the protection of these critical natural systems. Luke works at all levels of government to advocate for the correct accounting of forest ecosystems in Australia’s national carbon accounts. More about Luke

October 2010 Guest Speaker: Mark Ogge

Mark Ogge is Director of Beyond Zero Emissions. He is the initiator and key organiser of the Zero Carbon Australia project, and has implemented many of the projects that have shaped the organisation helping to make Beyond Zero Emissions one of the leading climate and energy solutions organisations in Australia. More about Mark

September 2010 Guest Speaker: Andrew McNamara

Andrew McNamara, the inaugural Chair of the Yarra Energy Foundation Limited, a company formed by the City of Yarra to drive greenhouse gas emissions reductions for its 78,000 residents. More about Andrew

August 2010 Guest Speaker: Gilbert Rochecouste

Gilbert is Managing Director of Village Well, Australia’s most respected Place Making organisation since 1992. More about Gilbert

July 2010 Guest Speaker: Kelly O'Shanassy

Kelly O’Shanassy is the Chief Executive Officer of Environment Victoria. More about Kelly

June 2010 Guest Speaker: Simon Holmes à Court

Chairman of Hepburn Wind, Australia's first community owned wind farm. More about Simon

May 2010 Guest Speaker: Liz Minchin

Award winning journalist Liz Minchin from the Age. More about Liz.

April 2010 Guest Speaker: Sarah Phillips

Sarah Phillips from VECCI will be speaking about a new online carbon-reducing initiative for business, Carbon Compass, and also her interest in social media and online communities. More about Sarah.

March 2010 Guest Speaker: Mark Lister

Mark is The Interim CEO for the Australian Alliance to Save Energy and Group Manager Corporate Affairs Szencorp. More about Mark

February 2010 Guest Speaker: Brendan Condon

Brendan is the director of four companies working in the sustainability field. These include Australian Ecosystems, Cape Paterson Ecovillage, Safe Climate Australia and Climate Positive. More about Brendan.

December 2009 Guest Speaker: Dan Atkins

Managing Director of Shaper Group, Dan Atkins

November 2009 Guest Speaker: Kate Auty

Dr Kate Auty, Victoria’s newly appointed Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability.

October 2009 Guest Speaker: Philip Wollen

Philip Wollen former merchant banker and one of Australia's most head hunted executives is "giving it all away". More about Philip

September 2009 Guest Speaker: Jan Owen AM

Jan is the Executive Director of Social Ventures Australia (SVA). More about Jan

August 2009 Guest Speaker: Steve Sammartino

Steve is the Founding General Manager of Rentoid.
More about Steve

July 2009 Guest Speaker: Scott McDougall

Scott is the President of TerraChoice Environmental Marketing Inc.
More about Scott.

June 2009 Guest Speaker: Monique Conheady

Monique is a co-founder of Flexicar and the company’s CEO.
More about Monique

May 2009 Guest Speaker: Marcus Godinho

Marcus is the Chief Executive Officer FareShare.
More about Marcus. Download the MP3 of his talk (17MB)

April 2009 Guest Speaker: Larry Quick

Larry is the Resilient Futures Network global practice leader and is involved in projects in Australia (e.g. the Future Fuels Network), and in the U.S.A. reinventing Stamford CT, and Resilient Communities U.S.A.
More about Larry.

March 2009 Guest Speaker: Andy Baker

Andy is co-author of the Living LOHAS in Australia report series and co-founder of strategic consultancy Mobium Group. Mobium Group provides market insights to business about issues of sustainability, technology, health and well-being. Andy is a strategic planning specialist with ten years experience in corporate, analytical and consulting roles across financial services, energy, technology, health, agribusiness and other sectors. View the Mobium Group website.

February 2009 Guest Speaker: Dan Atkins

Dan is the co-founder and Director of Business Shaper and has extensive international and domestic experience with corporate and government sectors in Asia, Europe and Australia. Starting his career as a chartered accountant, Dan specialised in understanding the financial implication of sustainability aspects and incorporating sustainability considerations into business strategy and corporate reporting. More about Dan Download the MP3 of his talk (12MB)