Green Steps is 20! Join us for an evening to celebrate.

Founded by a small group of Monash students back in 2000, Green Steps was established as a way to teach students the necessary skills to create transformative change for sustainable development within organisations and in their careers.

20 years on, Green Steps is now an established program under the Monash Sustainable Development Institute that has trained 1300+ alumni, won multiple awards, and continues to inspire the next generation of leaders to create change for a better world. Read more about Green Steps here.

About this event:

This celebration event will be a chance to catch up and reflect on past achievements and look ahead to what the upcoming decades may hold. The evening will be asking three multi-disciplinary speakers about what the world in 2040 could look like - and what we can all do to ensure that future. We will be inviting them to share bold visions and bring new futures to bare, imagining possibilities to transform our economic, cultural, energy, and food systems.

Alumni, supporters, and friends of the Green Steps Program are invited to share in this landmark celebration and be inspired by a stimulating discussion and ideas for a sustainable future. In true Green Steps style, we also want to hear from you about your vision of the future, so there will be plenty of time for discussion.

We hope you can join us.

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Speakers

Katherine Trebeck

Katherine is a writer, a researcher, and an advocate for economic system change. Her work explores how the economy can deliver social justice, good lives, and vibrant communities, all while protecting the planet.

For the past few years she has led Advocacy and Influencing work for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance – a global collaboration she co-founded in 2018, the same year she co-founded WEAll Scotland. Katherine instigated the group of Wellbeing Economy Governments; developed Oxfam’s Humankind Index; and led Oxfam’s work on a ‘human economy’. She is a member of the Scottish Government’s Sustainable Renewal Advisory Group and Zero Waste Scotland’s Demystifying Decoupling Advisory Group. Her most recent book The Economics of Arrival: Ideas for a Grown Up Economy (co-authored with Jeremy Williams) was published in January 2019.

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Tony Birch

Tony Birch is an Australian novelist, short story writer, poet, and academic.

Birch has written three novels: the bestselling The White Girl, winner of the 2020 NSW Premier’s Award for Indigenous Writing, and shortlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin literary prize; Ghost River, winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing; and Blood, which was shortlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Award. He is also the author of Shadowboxing and three short story collections, Father’s Day, The Promise and Common People. In 2017 he was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award for his contribution to Australian literature. In 2021 he will release two new books, a poetry book, Whisper Songs, and a new short story collection, Dark As Last Night. Both books will be published by University of Queensland Press.

In recent years Tony has become increasingly involved with the issue of climate change, working as part of the global Weather Stations project, an initiative encouraging creativity and storytelling to help address increasing environmental concerns.

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Eli Court

Eli believes that transforming our food system, our land use and the way we manage oceans is not only essential for tackling climate change but presents the greatest hope for preserving the natural systems that ultimately sustain us all. Eli oversees ClimateWorks’ activities focused on this system, and established the flagship Land Use Futures program, a multi-year, cross-sectoral initiative supporting the shift to sustainable food and land use in Australia.

Prior to joining ClimateWorks, Eli supported momentum towards community renewables and energy efficiency as an energy policy advocate at the Moreland Energy Foundation (now Australian Energy Foundation). He also worked in legal policy at the Victorian Department of Justice and as a lawyer for the Victorian Government Solicitor.

Eli’s professional life has been dedicated to helping people and organisations transition to a zero emissions future. His expertise is in making sense of complex technical and social research, and building and maintaining supportive and cohesive teams and partnerships that can translate that research into effective on-ground projects.

Details

5:55pm - Arrival on Zoom

6:00 – 6.45pm – Welcome and speaker provocations

6.45 - 7.30pm – Questions, discussion & networking