GCCW@UOW plans 2017

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1	Activity	Organiser(s)	When and where?	News angle	Brief description	Media and PR	Confirmed?
2	Community Climate Change Forum - "Issues, Solutions and Q&A"	Keith Horton, George Takacs and Tom Hunt	Beaton Park Tennis Club, 7pm Weds 11th	We're seeing the impacts of climate change and starting to prepare for whats to come. But the effects can be lessened if we all work together on the solutions that are at hand.	Member for Cunningham, Sharon Bird, introduces UOW experts to discuss the local impacts of climate change and the solutions our city may want to consider. The audience are asked to think about the issues and ask the panel about their concerns, and what is or can be happening to minimise the impacts of global warming.		yes
3	Ride to Uni day	Renee Stortz	Thursday 12th October		breakfast outside the library from 7.30-9.00 and then Spearman’s cycles will be performing a bike maintenance workshop from 12-1 on the duck pond lawn		yes
4	ClimeActs open mike + dance party	Neil Cairns with Keith Horton	City Diggers Club, Friday 13th October from around 6.00		Hosted by Illawarra folk club (https://illawarrafolkclub.org.au/). Present your climate-related song/poem/art work.		yes
5	Tour of the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (UOW Innovation Campus)	Robyn Dawson	Tuesday 10th October, 4.30 or 5.30
6	building design workshop	Lorna Jarrett	11.00-13.00 on Wednesday 11th October in the second year labs, 6.316
7	100 Solutions to Climate Change - Which can you do?	Tom Hunt / Alternative Technology Association	Thursday 12th 6:30 for 7pm, ITAMs lecture theatre, 233-G01, UOW Innovation Campus	What are the most important solutions to climate change and what can we do ourselves?	Paul Hawken's recent book Drawdown - provides a comprehensive plan to reverse global warming, with a ranking of the top 100 things we need to do. We will explore some of those we can do ourselves with the help of locals who have done it in thier own homes.		yes
8	GCCWeek challenge	Peter Andersen	n/a
9	Divestment petition installation	Fossil Free UOW (Amy Fairall)	Monday, 11am (?) McKinnon Lawn	Visual demonstration of the number of UOW staff and students who oppose UOW's investments in fossil fuels	For every signature we currently have on our divestment petition we will place and orange x on a skewer into the McKinnon Lawn. (The orange x is the symbol for fossil free unis). People will have the opprotunity to sign our petition on the day and place their x in the ground.	Hopefully this will be the first event on GCCW and will be the event media come to to promote the rest of the events for the week
10	tree planting	George Takacs	Friday 13th at 12.30 pm, the northernmost alcove on the western side of building 41
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