Agenda:  The agenda for the workshop sessions will be as follows:

Session 1, 12 Mar 2010 afternoon:  Nature of the crisis planet earth faces and the programme required to mitigate them: a) The crisis—climate change, peak oil, rapid environmental degradation, financial meltdown; b) Viability of solutions offered—Kyoto protocol and outcomes of subsequent inter-governmental deliberations, alternative energy programmes; c) Programmes that ought to be adopted by—inter-government bodies, (eg, UNFCCC), federal and state governments, civil society, individuals.

Session 2, 13 Mar 2010 afternoon:  Nature of a future society that will avoid the mistakes made by the present one:  a) Global outlook—part of nature or apart from it; b) Energy—fossil fuel free society, future energy sources—can sources other than the sun fit the bill, how can the sun be harvested best; c) Equity—between people, generations, species; d) Relationship between human society and nature—sustainable use of nature, usufruct rights over nature; e) Nature of human society—nature of society and state, principles of governance, ownership and usufruct rights over embodied energy; f) Economy—growth or steady state economics?  g) Human relationships—selfish gene vs collective human preservation; h) Knowledge—Direction of its development, role of entropy in nature and recognizing its direction for future human development; i) The meaning of development.

Session 3, 14 Mar 2010 afternoon: Risk-bearers at the centre of the solution:  a) Tools required for risk-bearers and vulnerable populations to be able to understand and assess their risk and who is causing it—vulnerability mapping tool, carbon calculator, ecological footprint assessment tool; b) Why and how risk bearers, particularly the most vulnerable, must become central change agents—information communication, empowerment tools, organizational effort; c) Roadmap for making risk-bearers the central agents of change.