[ASA] ASA Sustainability Town Hall at the ASM: 13th July 12.30pm AEST

[Themiya Nanayakkara]

Dear ASA, 

We hope you are looking forward to the ASM next week with its exciting lineup of talks and other activities!!

The ASA Sustainability Working Group (SWG) was commissioned by the ASA council last year and we have been leading some initiatives behind the scenes during the last few months. As a part of this, the ASA will be launching its “Sustainability Statement” this year during the ASM. The SWG will also be holding a Town Hall Meeting during the ASM on Tuesday the 13th of July at 12.30-13.30 AEST (lunch/coffee break) <https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/asa2021/schedule/#tab453>Tuesday the 13th of July at 12.30-13.30 AEST (lunch/coffee break <https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/asa2021/schedule/#tab453>), immediately after the Plenary session: Astronomers – Your planet needs you! by Dr Karl & Peter Tuthill.

The goal of the Town Hall is to reach out to the wider ASA community to discuss measures we should take as a wider astro community to address the climate crisis. Specifically, we would like to:
Improve astro community understanding of the climate crisis and how/why they can get involved.
Engage the wider community on action driven measures. 
Recruit new members to the working group to shape the measures of the ASA. 

The program for the event can be found below. 

We look forward to seeing you at the town hall. If you do have any questions please feel free to reach out in the meantime via reply to this email. 


The Sustainability Working group.

Aaron Glanville, Adam Stevens, Alexis Heitzmannm, Andy Casey, Cathryn Trott, Chris Riseley, Christian Wolf, Clancy James, Colin Jacobs, David Mcconnell, Gemma Anderson, Jake Clark, James Murray, Martin Stringer, Michael Brown, Michael Cowley, Michael Murphy, Mita Brierley, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Rachael Webster, Stefania Jess, Vanessa Moss, Peter Tuthill, Themiya Nanayakkara.


Agenda 12.30-13.30 pm AEST 13/07/2021

Chair: Acknowledgement of Country, outline structure of meeting (2 min)
Speaker(s): Introductory talk (10 min): Natasha Hurley-Walker and Adam Stevens
Q&A on talk (10 min)
Split into hubs/zoom breakout rooms (1 min)
In each hub/ online breakout room: moderated brainstorming toward the explicit goals (20 min divided amongst the goals)
Back to centralised discussion: each moderator reports the major points raised from each hub (7 min, i.e. 1 min per hub/zoom breakout room)
Chair: wrap-up (5 min)
Action items arising from the discussion
Date and time for follow-up meeting (1st Friday in August 14:00 AEST)

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