Wednesday, 08 September 2010

Environmental Bio

  • 2010  Gave a speech at the launch of Enviornment Week with Cool Australia - Title: The Benefits of Environmental Education
  • 2010  Conducted two enviornmental workshops at a local high school - Title: Your impact on the Environment
  • 2010  Gave a talk at a local primary school - Title: Acting on my passion
  • 2010  Attended the opening of the LIA Wetlands Education Centre
  • 2010  Australian representative for the International Youth Accord on Biodiversity - COP 10, 2010 
  • 2010  Member of the Conservation Club at school - media officer
  • 2009  Custodian of the "People's Orb" and initiative of WWF. The People's Orb contained my short film of children statements from around the world on their thoughts on climate change. The People's Orb was taken to the Copenhagen Conference in December.
  • 2009  Guest Speaker at the AGM for Futureworld
  • 2009  Key Note Speaker at the MDBA International River Health Conference - Canberra
  • 2009  UNEP TUNZA International Children's Conference on the Environment – South Korea- Workshop facilitator and presenter
  • 2009  Started Blogging for the Australian Museum about climate change/environment - http://www.australianmuseum.net.au/news-blogs 
  • 2009  Featured in the July/August edition of G Magazine
  • 2009  Finalist in the "Pride of Australia Medal" in the Young Leader Category
  • 2009  Attended the opening of the “Climate Change” exhibition at the Australian Museum, Sydney
  • 2009  Attended the opening of the Australian Museum of Democracy Canberra and feature in the exhibition
  • 2009  Participated in Earth Hour
  • 2009  Member of the Conservation Club at school
  • 2009  Participated in Clean Up Australia campaign
  • 2008  UNEP's Environmental Hero of the Month – November – Asia Pacific region
  • 2008  International Youth Coastal Conference, Townsville - guest speaker - gave seven media interviews
  • 2008  UNEP TUNZA International Children's Conference on the Environment – Norway - Guest Speaker
  • 2008  WWF Youth Ambassador (since 2006)
  • 2008  Earth Hour Ambassador - Speaker at the official function on Sydney Harbour
  • 2008  Campaigned for Earth Hour - Held meetings with senior managers and politicians in Norway and Austria to ask them to commit for 2009
  • 2008  Climate Change Torch Relay - Ran a leg of the relay through Wollongong
  • 2008  Gave a speech about Earth Hour to 1000 students
  • 2008  Gave various media interviews (radio, TV, newspapers and magazines) about Earth Hour
  • 2008  Visited the United Nations Head Quarters in Vienna
  • 2008  Travelled to Borneo to research and film Orang-utans for a documentary
  • 2008  Attended the Illawarra 2020 Summit - an imitative by the Australian Prime Minister (Mr Kevin Rudd)
  • 2008  Held discussions with senior Australian politicians about educating Australian children about the environment, Honourable Mr Peter Garrett (Environment, Heritage & Arts minister), Ms Penny Wong (Minister for Climate Change), Mr Brendan Nelson (Former opposition leader), Ms Sharon Bird (Local member)
  • 2008  Participated in the Clean Up Australia campaign
  • 2008  Various media interviews regarding the environment
  • 2008  Member of the Conservation Club at school
  • 2007  Participated in Earth Hour events - Guest at the official function on Sydney Harbour
  • 2007  Made a documentary about Polar Bears
  • 2007  World Environment Day Celebrations- Guest Speaker to over 1000 children - Wollongong
  • 2007  Participated in the "Walk Against Climate Change", Sydney
  • 2007  Gave a speech titled "Planet Earth it Needs a Helping Hand" at the Cool Day Out environmental event, Wollongong
  • 2007  Walked with Sarah Bishop who walked from Brisbane to Sydney to spread the awareness of Climate Change