Impact 2010 will bring together professionals and students from a variety of disciplines to explore the role of sustainable development in creating access and opportunities to communities in Australia and the Asia Pacific region.
Purchase your Impact 2010 ticket now
What's it all about?
The conference will employ a dynamic mix of presentations, debates, panels, forums, discussions, workshops and exhibitions to examine the theoretical, experiential and technological dimensions of development. Impact 2010 will launch the 2011 Year of the humanitarian engineer demonstrating how humanitarianism and engineering can provide innovative, sustainable and appropriate solutions for many of the problems facing the planet!
This year the conference will be split into three themed days, knowledge and skills, people and partnerships, vision and leadership. In this format we will be covering technical skills required for sustainable development, contest theories of development practice, cover contextual topics such as political issues and history and finally communicate and celebrate opportunities for sustainable development both in our own local communities and overseas.
Registrations are now open!
Purchase your Impact 2010 ticket now
Pre Conference Day
Held the day before Impact 2010 on Wednesday the 24th of November, the pre-conference day is an opportunity for delegates to get to know each other and participate in some amazing workshops and tours. In 2009 the tours were extremely popular with several selling out. Delegates may choose one tour from the following tours. This year the tours are:
1. Permaculture at it’s best:
Permaculture Guru David Holmgren has dedicated his life to the principles and practice of permaculture which he describes as consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy. Sign up and take a tour of Holmgren’s vision come to life – ‘Melliodora’ – situated in Victoria’s beautiful spa country, Hepburn Springs. Melliodora is one of the best documented and well known permaculture demonstration sites in Australia. With a passive solar house, mixed food gardens, orchards, dams and livestock you will see how a blackberry covered wasteland has evolved into a small scale permaculture success. David and his property have featured on both Gardening Australia in 1998 and 2007 and Landline in 2004. This tour also includes lunch at Melliodora kindly provided by David and Su Holmgren. (book fast as last year this sold tour out).
2.Sustainable communities, eco buildings for the future:
As Australia’s population increases so does its need to provide affordable housing. Striking a balance between sustainable building design and cost is going to be a tricky balance. Join this tour to take a look at some sustainable developments already in place around Melbourne. First we take a tour of Westwyck Sustainable housing. Formally a school it threatened to become yet another example of quality inner-urban infrastructure that had lost its original function and faced the bulldozer. Instead, the WestWyck developers aimed to bring the building to new and vibrant life as an urban demonstration showpiece of sustainable development and good design.
The tour then goes on to visit two more sustainable developments, firstly the ACE: an automotive training faciltity which features innovative and sustainable environmental design principles and practices, for which it has received a 5 Green Star rating for energy and sustainable design, from the Green Building Council of Australia. Lastly we visit Urban workshop . The 33 storey tower provides a mix of commercial, car park, retail, leisure, heritage and public urban facilities. This innovative building is one in a series of new buildings in Melbourne with strong environmental credentials, achieving a 4.5 ABGR Star Rating. The tour includes lunch at Council House 2 – sustainable and organic in both it’s produce and building design.
3. The great Energy tour:
Renewable vs. Coal: Did you know that Australia’s reliance on coal for a high percentage of our electricity generation actually shoots us to the top of the ‘OECD Worst Climate Polluters’ ;cost on a per capita basis! – yep that’s us. Well as the politicians um and arr about our future energy use make your own comparison on the great energy tour. This tour takes you down to Lo Yang (which is actually an Aboriginal word meaning ‘big eel’ ) mine - the largest producing open cut brown coal mine in the southern hemisphere. It then takes you to the Yo lang power station capable of generating 2,200 megawatt and consuming up to 60,000 tonnes of coal a day. Wow! After a lovely lunch to give you some time to take it all in we then travel to Wonthaggi Wind Farm which has six turbines each with maximum capacity of 2 MW. Wind power currently provides 0.5% of Australia’s electricity requirements, did you know that in Denmark 20% of its electricity needs from wind power!?. What does the future hold? find out on the great energy tour (this tour sold out last year.)
4. Indigenous Melbourne:
This tour demonstrates that to get a taste of Australia’s Indigenous history, and to appreciate Indigenous culture today you don’t have to stray far from the Melbourne CBD. Amongst the hustle of the city lies the Koori Heritage trust – a non profit organisation aiming to protect, preserve and promote the living culture of Aboriginal people of South Eastern Australia. Take a wander through Koori culture then onto the Yarra River (Birrarung) to gain a sense of a small but significant portion of the ancestral lands of the Kulin people. Walkin’ Birrarung is a journey back through time to a memory that lies beneath our urban existence today.
Social Events
The Conference is a fantastic opportunity to socialise and network. During the Conference there will be two social events
Join us for some great Conference Social events!
At this years Conference Impact 2010 there will be two great social events! Please join us in the celebrations!
Register now!
Please register at http://www.ewb.org.au/explore/conference-registration when you register for conference.
Details:
EWB Celebrates
EWB Celebrateswill be an inaugral Celebration of EWB's current volunteers, our community partners and volunteer alumni. It will be afantastic opportunity to meet volunteers past and present, find out about EWB's current and past projects and have a cocktail or two at these Mexican themed venue!
Details:
Date:Thursday 25th opf November
Time: 7pm
Cost:$30
Venue: Amigos Restaurant, 117 Lygon St Carlton, Melbourne
Tickets are limited so make sure you get yours today!
EWB Conference After Party
The Conference after party is a great opportunity to relax and unwind after a amazing few days. Reflect on the past few days with a beer and BBQ at the Penny Black in Brunswick.
Details:
Date: Saturday 27th of November
Time: 7pm
Cost:$30
Venue: The Penny Black, 420 Sydney Road Brunswick
This event is free and includes a BBQ dinner
There are currently no comments.
Prices
EARLY BIRD BONUS
Registrations received before August 31st also receive complimentary entry to the EWB Celebrates cocktail night on the Thursday the 25th of November
Pre Conference Day
Student/unwaged: $60
Professional: $80
Full Conference - 3 days
Student (Member) $ 180 Professional (Member) $350
Student(Non-member)$200 Professional (non-member) $400
Single day cost
Student (Member) $75 Professional (Member) $150
Student(Non-member)$85 Professional (non-member) $175
Where to stay in Melbourne
If you haven't already booked your accommodation here are some great places to stay near the Conference whilst you're in Melbourne:
Elizabeth Hostel
490 Elizabeth st Melbourne
(03) 9663 1685
http://www.elizabethhostel.com.au/
The Greenhouse Backpacker
228 Flinders Lane Melbourne
(03) 9639 6400
http://www.friendlygroup.com.au/
The Nunnery Guesthouse
The Arthouse
Downtowner on Lygon
Where is it?
The Conference is held at the University of Melbourne at the Economics and Commerce Building.You will receive further information when you purchase your ticket.