Rob Gell AM, ReThink Sustainability - Challenges & opportunities of our lifves
Smarter Impact
English - June 30, 2019 14:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBInvesting Business Marketing impact investing venture capital investing finance business marketing not for profit philanthropy social good Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
"You're entitled to your own beliefs, but not your own facts" - dive into the failure of Triple Bottom Line, smashing through 2 degrees in climate warming, RE & EV100 targets, sustainable development goals, the futility of strategy and planning compared to setting targets based on time and available resources, then acting, a world running out of water, the motivation to act as an individual, the reality that Victoria's coal energy generation stands no chance of being extended compared to the renewals coming online, the vast array of beneficial technology in front of us and what we really need to do by 2030 regarding our cities... and more!
SDG via https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/
RE100 - http://there100.org/
EV100 - https://www.theclimategroup.org/proje...
Net Zero Carbon Buildings - https://www.worldgbc.org/news-media/W...
Mr Rob Gell is an environmental geographer and communications specialist, Founder and Executive Director of http://www.rethinksustainability.com.au, the http://www.bhivegroup.com.au and also a director of https://greencowater.com
Mr Gell is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an Inaugural Fellow of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand, a member of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute Advisory Board, was a member of the Victorian Coastal Council from 2000 to 2018, he was a director of Greening Australia for thirteen years, seven years as Victorian President and three years as national President concluding in 2011 and for eleven years the Chair of the Mornington Peninsula and Westernport Biosphere (UNESCO) Reserve Foundation Ltd until 2014.
In a previous life Rob presented weather information for thirty-one years on commercial television.
He is also a published author and a photographer and a Life Australia Day Ambassador. On Australia Day 2014 he was made a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia for significant service to conservation, to the protection of coastal and marine environments, and to the
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