Earth:Milthorpe Lecture

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The Milthorpe Lecture is a series of public lectures on environmental science held at Macquarie University, Australia . It is endowed by the Milthorpe Fund in memory of F.L. Milthorpe, Chair of Biology at the University from 1967–1982. The first lecture was delivered by David Suzuki in 1989.[1]

List of lecturers

  • Dr. David Suzuki, Biologist and Environmental Activist (1989)
  • Professor Paul R. Ehrlich, Biologist
  • Sir Ninian Stephen, Former Governor-General of Australia and Australian Ambassador for the Environment (1990)
  • Neville Wran, Former Premier of New South Wales and Chairman of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1991)
  • Senator Dr. Bob Brown, Environmental Activist and Australian Senator
  • Professor Michael Archer, Director of the Australian Museum
  • Senator John Faulkner, Australian Senator and Minister for the Environment (1995)[2]
  • Dr. Richard Jefferson, Biologist and CEO of CAMBIA (1999)[3]
  • Dr. Clive Hamilton, Executive Director of The Australia Institute (2006) [4]
  • Professor Peter Singer, Bioethicist (2009)[5]
  • Professor Ian Chubb, Chief Scientist of Australia (2013)[6]
  • James Woodford, Environmental and Science Journalist (2014)[7]

External links

References

  1. "Dr Clive Hamilton to deliver 2006 Milthorpe Lecture on The political economy of climate change". Macquarie University Marketing Unit. http://www.mq.edu.au/staffnews/archive/06/stafnews9.html. Retrieved 2013-10-08. 
  2. "Ecologically sustainable development: from theory to practice". Press releases database, Australian Parliamentary Library. 1995-11-02. http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22media%2Fpressrel%2FFTK20%22. Retrieved 2016-11-23. 
  3. "The Future of Genetically Engineered Food Crops". Editorial, Australasian Biotechnology Volume 9 Number 5, November/December 1999. http://www.bioline.org.br/request?au99013. Retrieved 2009-07-20. 
  4. "The Political Economy of Climate Change". Clive Hamilton. Archived from the original on 2009-09-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20090913104056/http://www.clivehamilton.net.au/cms/media/documents/articles/The_Political_Economy_of_Climate_Change.pdf. Retrieved 2009-07-20. 
  5. "Climate change, eating meat and ending poverty: Peter Singer to give public lecture". Macquarie University Marketing Unit. Archived from the original on 2013-02-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20130213225054/http://www.mq.edu.au/newsroom/2009/06/30/climate-change-eating-meat-and-ending-poverty-peter-singer-to-give-public-lecture/. Retrieved 2013-10-08. 
  6. "Milthorpe Lecture 2013". Macquarie University Marketing Unit. http://www.mq.edu.au/about/events/view/milthorpe-lecture-2013/. Retrieved 2013-05-22. 
  7. "Milthorpe Public Lecture". Macquarie University Department of Biological Sciences. http://bio.mq.edu.au/news/milthorpe-public-lecture-welcome/. Retrieved 2014-02-23.