Special guest at the 2012 What Matters? awards ceremony, Anna Rose
Anna Rose is an author and environmentalist. She is co-founder and Chair of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, a movement of over 82,000 young people working to solve climate change, and the former Environment Minister's joint Young Environmentalist of the Year.
Anna's climate change work started with shovelling compost and emptying recycling bins in high school. She went on to work with the National Union of Students on dozens of campus clean energy victories, speak onstage with the Dalai Lama to a 16,000-person sports stadium in Perth, trudge through snow door-knocking in the United States and spearhead Australia's first climate torch relay in her former role as GetUp's climate campaigner.
In 2011 Anna received a Churchill fellowship to research youth peer-to-peer climate education. The Sydney Morning Herald named her one of Sydney's most influential people (in 2009) and one of the top five most powerful grassroots organisers in NSW (in 2011). She has just released her first book, Madlands: A Journey to Change the Mind of a Climate Sceptic.
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26 July 2012
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