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UN HABITAT partnership launch and public address on adaptation to climate change by UN Under-Secretary-General

Adaptation to Climate Change: The Challenge of Island States
Address by Professor Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka
UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director UN-HABITAT

Friday 19 June 2009

5pm - 6pm, Case Room 2

Business School

Free Admission

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Engineers Without Borders NZ is a registered charity that carries out engineering projects in New Zealand and the Pacific.

We have a big project on the go in Tonga; installing solar water pumping at two remote island schools. These schools need 20 solar panels between them to make the project happen.

Sponsor this project

If you would like to make a donation, please head to our donation page, or use our contact form.

Each panel costs $1000.00 which you can donate as cash, or you can speak to the team about the specifications of the panel and you can donate it directly.

Date: 13th May 2009

Time: 6pm

Place: Room 3.404, Engineering School, University of Auckland

Our keynote speaker, Ruth Marsh is a specialist in integrated natural resource management
and sustainability, community and personal development. Ruth
specialises in helping
communities to come together in pursuit of a common goal.  She is
going to shine light on the big global picture and weave through her
experiences and core learnings from her 15+ years work in aid and
development in the Pacific, Asia and Africa and show how our personal
thoughts and our personal actions can have a significant impact.

Come listen to her experiences and get inspired to apply what you learn from her!

For more information on Ruth and what she does, please see www.ourcommonfuture.co.nz

To rsvp, please go to http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/event.php?eid=86998951813

Come put your engineering skills and creativity to the test by working on a real-life practical engineering problem that will help benefit many while gaining great exposure to development issues and winning great prizes!

Engineers Without Borders New Zealand is launching its 2009 National design challange, the Odyssey Challenge on 19th May 2009.

To find out more please join us at our Odyssey Challenge Launch!

Date: 19th May 2009

Time: 6pm

Place: Room 3.401, Engineering School, University of Auckland

To rsvp, please go to http://www.facebook.com/event.php?sid=3d2cb621cb68ae2b0f0f6346c53a5a7c&e...

For more information on the design challenge, please see http://www.ewb.org.nz/design-challenge/2009/odyssey

EWBNZ would like to notify members of the upcoming NEXUS Sustainability Seminar!

How planning and action in Auckland can help solve the global climate crisis

Date: May 4, 2009

Time: 12: 30pm - 1:30pm

Location: OGGB4, Owen G Glenn Building, Auckland University, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland

EWBNZ supports the Spark Social Entrepreneurship Challenge 2009.

We encourage EWBNZ members to participate in this challenge if they have got a great social entrepreneurship idea.

Go along to the Spark Social Entrepreneurship Roadshow to find out more about how you can join this challenge and to hear well renowned and successful social entrepreneur, Ray Avery, speak.

Time: 6pm - 7:30pm
Date: 6th May 2009
Location: OGGB5, Level 0 University of Auckland Business School

If you win one of the 10 $1000 prizes up for grabs, EWBNZ will support you by helping to form a team and provide mentoring for your entry to the Spark 100k Challenge.

So, book this into your calendar and please rsvp at http://www.spark.auckland.ac.nz/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=266

After last year's sold-out revue, the student engineers from the University of Auckland are again putting on another great revue.

This revue will be held from 23rd to 25th April 2009, 7.30pm, at the Maidment Theatre (8 Alfred Street, Auckland).

In addition, this year, they are giving all profits to EWBNZ to support our cause!

So go along and support them to help EWBNZ!

Tickets can be purchased via:
http://www.maidment.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/maidment/archives/2009/04/maidment-theatre/eng-revue-2009.cfm

For more information, please go to:
http://www.revue.engineering.auckland.ac.nz/

Speaker: Dr. Eric Martinot, Teaching Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington and Senior Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (Tokyo)
Time/Date: Monday Evening, April 6th at 6.30pm
Venue: School of Engineering University of Auckland, Room 3.401

Eric will give an overview of current trends in renewable energy markets, industries, and policies around the world, based on the REN21 Renewables Global Status Report, and then consider future energy and carbon scenarios, both globally and for New Zealand.  He will also provide insights into the coming decarbonization of both electricity and transport sectors, including the use of energy storage, "smart grids" and electric vehicles.  And he will address the scope for renewables in the next 10-30 years, both globally and for New Zealand.

Below is an exciting opportunity from NEXUS, the University of Auckland Sustainability Group, to find out more about sustainability and your role in promoting it.

Working Locally as Global Citizens

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world. -Margaret Mead