Tuesday 9th September 2025
Newsletter #17 – 9th September 2025
Dear Centre Members, HDR Colleagues, and Allied members,
September is Biodiversity month and 7th September was National Threatened Species day. It’s the kind of day that we should be aspiring NOT to have! However, Threatened Species day provokes us to pay attention to our roles in our ecosystem, to find ways to live our responsibility and to ensure we are all contributing meaningfully by managing to live with enough, and to right-size (term well used by Prof. Anne Poelina) our consumption. Take some time this week to pay attention and take some action – check an app about your local species, engage in acts of kindness in caring for and with Country… maybe by planting some plant species for our local pollinators, or putting out a new insect hotel… or signing up to volunteer your time to a local network. You can also read some good news items about some species at the end of the newsletter.
In this newsletter we get back to sharing important events and opportunities that you might like to explore.
A special note for an event later today:
CRF members Joe Ferguson, Jo O’Mara, Glenn Auld, and Peta White are presenting at the Climate Fiction in the Anthropocene – special issue of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education (AJEE) launched today…. See here. We will celebrate the SI with authors showcasing their contributions, and there will be time for discussion as well. The event is planned to take place on Zoom on September 9 from 4:00pm – 5:30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time. Zoom details here. Meeting ID: 826 8257 7535 Password: 95765168
We welcome your contributions to the newsletter. Please share any events you are hosting via the CRF inbox, and enable us to develop our community.
Best wishes,
Jo & Peta