Info and publications
Climate Change and Australia (Federation Press, 2012)
Climate Change and Australia (Federation Press, 2012)
Co-authored with: Ben Saul, Steven Sherwood, Jane McAdam, Tim Stephens
Link: Book description and publication details at Federation Press
SXSW (South by Southwest) 2012, Austin TX
Creative Energy: Renewing the fight for renewables
Panelists: James Slezak (Purpose.com), Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Edward Morris (The Canary Project), Tara DePorte (Human Impacts Institute)
Date: TBA, March 2012
Columbia Business School, Social Enterprise Conference 2011
Engaging Constituencies: Inspiring and Mobilizing Talent and Capital
Moderator: Teresa Puente (Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University)
Speakers: James Slezak (Head of Business Strategy, Purpose), Richard Robbins (Director of Digital Social Innovation, MWW), Courtney Roberts (Dexis Consulting Group), Susan Tenby (TechSoup Global).
Link: Columbia Business School Social Enterprise Conference 2011
Details: Friday October 7, 2011, 5:00–6:00PM at Alfred Lerner Hall, Broadway and 115th Street, Columbia University, New York
Columbia Earth Institute (Gradate Industrial Ecology): Guest lecture
Sustainability and Social Change
Course: Industrial Ecology, graduate class
Professor: Chritoph Meinrenken
Details: Monday October 3, 2011, 7:00-8:00 PM, 516 Hamilton Hall, Columbia Morningside Campus (Broadway and 116th Street), New York
Stanford Social Innovation Review
An Opportunity to Bolster Development Through Tax Collection
Co-author: Dan Altman (Dalberg Global Development Advisors)
Link: D. Altman, J. Slezak; Stanford Social Innovation Review (2011)
American Institute for Graphic Arts / Galapagos
Designing Activism: Graphic Arts, Propaganda and the Green Movement
Hosts: AIGA, Galapagos, Susan Szenasy (Metropolis magazine)
Panelists: James Slezak (Purpose.com), Michael Bierut (Pentagram), DJ Spooky (Paul Miller), Ed Morris (Canary Project), Jeremy Osborn (350.org), Dmitri Siegel (Urban Outfitters)
Details: Tuesday 26 April 2011, 6:30–8:30PM at Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
SXSW (South by Southwest) 2011, Austin TX
Inspired Action: New Approaches to Saving the Planet
Hosts: FastCompany, CauseShift, PepsiCo
Panelists: James Slezak (Purpose.com), Robert Murray (National Geographic) / moderated by Scott Henderson and Ann Mai Bertelsen (CauseShift)
Location: PepsiCo Plugged-In Stage at SXSW (Austin Convention Center, Meeting Room 2) // also live via webcast from FastCompany and PepsiCo
Date: Sunday March 13, 4:30 PM CST
Pathways to an Energy and Carbon Efficient Russia
Published by McKinsey & Company, with S. Solzhenitsyn, V. Klintsov, P.-A. Enkvist, T. Visek, Y. Solzhenitsyn, I. Shvakman and K. Schneiker, 2009
Carbon Disconnect
The Carbon Disconnect: The transport infrastructure implications of Australia’s carbon reduction targets
In this Senate submission, CPD fellow James Slezak argues that Australia’s transport policies at all levels remain wholly disconnected from the imperative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (Centre for Policy Development, 2009)
View submission: http://www.aph.gov.au/SENATE/committee/rrat_ctte/public_transport/submissions/sub101.pdf
An Australian Cost Curve for Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Published by McKinsey & Company, with S. Görner, A. Lewis, L. Downey, J. Michael and A. Wonhas, 2008