David Spear, CEO of GreenLight, and Gene Blackley, director of Drawdown Australia.

How we can affect our climate change future? At Geelong Sustainability’s Clever Living Seminar on 3 March 2020 at the Geelong Library, David Spear, CEO of GreenLight, and Gene Blackley, director of Drawdown Australia presented their answers to that question. It took them more than two hours to do this, and yet this was just an initial invitation as they reached out to the 140 people in the audience, encouraging everyone to get engaged and actively involved in local community work to help reverse global warming.

Gene Blackley and David Spear: Drawdown Australia – Part 1

Gene Blackley and David Spear: Drawdown Australia – Part 2

As a leader for Project Drawdown in Australia, Gene Blackley promotes an inspiring vision for a thriving economy and society in our future negative-carbon world, by embracing the extraordinary opportunities for Australia to be an economic superpower with a renewable-powered circular economy.

Drawdown offers cost effective, existing, proven solutions to addressing climate change. If most of these were taken up, we could get to zero emissions and make a better world at the same time.

Gene Blackley is a strong advocate for regeneration of a socially equitable and environmentally sustainable world. Australia is incredibly well positioned to thrive from embracing and addressing the challenges of our climate and ecological emergency.

David Spear is a member of Geelong Sustainability and the Executive Officer of Geelong Sustainability’s brand new social enterprise called ​GreenLight​. He was MC’ing the Geelong Library for the first ​Clever Living​ seminar for 2020, titled ‘​Drawdown – The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming​’.

Update: Presentation of a new, revised Drawdown book

Geelong residents have another chance to hear this truly inspirational presenter, Gene Blackley from Drawdown Australia, when he is presenting on the revised Drawdown 100 Solutions to reverse global warming, which were only released on 3 March this week. 

Where:  Sustainable Living Festival at Deakin Waterfront, GeelongTime:  2:45-3:15pm this Sunday 8 March 2020

About GreenLight

GreenLight offers a range of sustainability services, with the aim of providing financial support enabling Geelong Sustainability’s ongoing work – which is a registered charity and not for profit organisation.