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21November2019	Transition Engineering Convergence Date November 21, 2019Details Save the date! Get involved. 21-22 November 2019 The organising committee for the 3rd International GATE conference, and the New Zealand National Transition Engineering Convergence extend invitation to any and all interested in action. This conference will actually be a shift project. Join in on the design, development, participation and commercialisation. Convergence
28May2019	Big Do in Dunedin Date May 28, 2019Details Public lecture and open discussion 7:30 PM in the Castle 2 Professor Susan Krumdieck has been invited to give a keynote address to the New Zealand Minerals Forum. The people who make a living providing everything we use are going to hear about the sunset of their industry. But there is a twist. Susan has no interest in being Cassandra. In this talk she will open up a new possibility for the future we know is looming up at us. Link wiseresponse.org.nz Do Something
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25February2019	The BigDO After Work Date February 25, 2019Details Mondays at the University of Canterbury Engineering Core Join in for a working discussion of the BigDO. Students, Professionals, Professors, Big Thinkers..... All are welcome to drop in for the think tank and strategy meeting and get involved.Link https://www.facebook.com/transitionengi... The Big Do
	Energy Transition Engineering Course Date February 18, 2019Details Enrol now for ENME405 or ENME605 for Masters credit. An on-line option will be available for distance learners. An abbreviated participation will be available for CPD credit and for distance learners. There are 21 lectures available that follow the new text book Transition Engineering. The lectures are recorded and can be watched at any time. Contact us to get access. Cost is $1500 which includes the text. Susan.Krumdieck@canterbury.ac.nz Link to Canterbury University for enrolment in the course Syllabus
12November2018	Seminar: The Big DO Date November 12, 2018Details Professor Susan Krumdieck The BigDO Monday 6:00 pm (New Zealand) CaseRoom 1/260-005 University of Auckland Business School Video Recording Available Details
09October2018	Conference: The Big Do Date October 09, 2018Details That was Amazing! Just a week before the IPCC released the report on what we are in for and what we risk by running the planetary thermodynamics into instability - we met, and flipped our perspective and came up with a spectacularly disruptive Big DO. 2nd conference
02July2018	Metropole Grenoble Transition Date July 02, 2018Details A major forward-looking research program is being developed with the City of Grenoble, the universities, and local companies. As part of the development phase of the program, a workshop was held to work through the Transition Engineering vision of the future and discoveries of disruptive opportunities as carried out by Jeremy Pascal and Susan Krumdieck. Watch
15March2018	University Course in Transition Engineering Date March 15, 2018Details A full semester course in Transition Engineering at Munich University of Applied Sciences A final year elective taught in English using the new text Transition Engineering , Taylor & Francis-CRC Press MUAS Professor Susan Krumdieck, MUAS Fellow
09February2018	New Report on Solutions Date February 09, 2018Details GATE has supported the "Future Climate - Engineering Solutions" (FC-ES) project since our foundation in 2014.
09December2017	EROI of Oil Date December 09, 2017Details Last century's oil was mobile liquid in porous source rock where it had concentrated after being thermally broken down from the biomass deposited more than 50 million years ago. This century's oil is being mined from tar deposits or blown out of solid shale. EROI of Oil
08September2017	1st International GATE Conference Date September 08, 2017Details GATE 2018 Breaks new ground with global "no-travel" design GATE didn't want people to have to fly to the conference. Thus we organized an e-conference with venues in New Zealand and UK, and live webfeed to people around the world. We reduced the greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80% AND we all slept better. Other benefits included much higher attendance, and not having to go through airport security. Read Article on IMechE
18July2017	Energy Transition Engineering Course Date July 18, 2017Details ENME405 Energy Systems Engineering offered at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand incorporates a topical coverage of Transition Engineering. As part of the final examination 2017 the students research and prepare an advice to the Minister of Transport regarding the government policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions by "encouraging purchase of electric vehicles".Link http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/engineering...
06March2016	3rd Science and Energy Seminar Details Science & Energy 2016: 50 scientists and engineers, historians and economists came together for a week of intense discussion about how to carry out scenarios and how to interpret results of scenarios.Date March 06, 2016Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJVon80...
02October2015	InTIME Workshop Series: Ideas Beyond Targets Details A series of workshops ahead of the COP21 Paris meeting on Climate Change. Christchurch, New Zealand Duisburg-Essen, Germany Grenoble, France Bristol, UK Date October 02, 2015Link http://www.aemslab.org.nz/transitioncli...
10June2014	Engineers Without Borders New Zealand Details Engineering Change 2014 - "Transition Engineering: the Job of Change" The theme of the conference involves understanding the engineering ethics of climate change. The presentation is available on YouTube.Date June 10, 2014Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd29e_0...
15November2010	Signs of Change National e-Conference Details 40 Presenters from around New Zealand gave their experience with emerging sustainability. The first e-conference was designed, tested and run as a Shift Project in the transition of the wicked problem of conference travel.Date November 15, 2010Link www.signsofchange.org.nz/