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The Earth, Overconsumption and You: Fred Gale at TEDxLaunceston

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"My name is Fred and I am an over-consumer". So starts Fred Gale in this tale of rocket ships, limit resources and our need to consume less.

Fred Gale is an academic based in the School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, Launceston. He conducts research on environmental certification and labelling, the political economy of forestry, global governance, and sustainable consumption and production.

His recent books include Global Commodity Governance: State Responses to
Sustainable Forest and Fisheries Certification (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2011);
and Pulp Friction in Tasmania: A Review of the Environmental Assessment of Gunns'
Proposed Bell Bay Pulp Mill (Launceston: Pencil Pine Press 2011).

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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