People Power: Turning Climate Curiosity into Action

​Care about our climate but unsure where to start?

​🍦And want to win a YEAR'S SUPPLY OF BEN & JERRY'S??🍦

​Join this high-energy, practical session designed for anyone who is climate-curious and ready to start making more climate-conscious choices in their everyday life.

​This session brings together leading brands, organisations and innovators who are turning good intentions into real-world action - showing how individual choices, when combined, can shift markets, systems and culture. This is not about awareness for awareness’ sake - it’s about practical steps, behaviour change and tangible next actions you can take.

​Across the session, you’ll explore everyday levers for change - from how you invest your money💰 and shape your daily habits⏱️ to how you consume food 🍔 fashion 👗 and advocacy 🤝. Each speaker will share clear, accessible strategies regarding consumer power and making sustainable choices easier, more affordable and more collective:

• ​Financial Services & Investing (Christina Hobbs, General Manager at Future Super)

• ​Fashion Activism (Lisa Lake, Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Fashion & Textiles)

• ​Food & Waste (Maxx Silver, Business Development Manager at OzHarvest Ventures)

• ​Daily Habits (d'Arcy Lunn, Founder and Director at Teaspoons of Change)

• ​Advocacy (Will Davies, Co-Founder Car Next Door)

​Whether you’re just starting out or looking to take the next step, you’ll leave with simple, actionable ways to reduce your impact and be part of climate solutions - without perfection, guilt or overwhelm.

​What to expect

​Hosted by Tegan Lerm - CEO of Project Planet, an experienced communicator known for engaging climate-curious audiences and turning big ideas into practical action, the session will feature a series of short, interactive 20-minute conversations with leaders across key sectors shaping everyday climate choices:

• ​Daily Habits
  The power of small, everyday actions - and how collective individual choices can drive global impact.

• ​Investing & Finance
  How your superannuation can become a powerful lever for change - shifting capital, influencing markets and accelerating climate solutions.

• ​Circular Fashion
  With 15yrs as a sustainable fashion activist, Lisa will discuss the potential of clothes to change the world. Starting with your own wardrobe, all the way to new circular fashion businesses and innovative fossil-free fibres, you’ll learn how a passion for fashion can change the world.

• ​Food & Waste
  Business as a tool for good, and how everyday food choices, waste reduction, and new food systems can significantly reduce emissions and support communities.

• ​Advocacy & Education
  How purpose-driven businesses, consumer action, and strategic advocacy can drive system-level climate change.

​Why attend?

​This session is for you if you:

​💭 Feel climate-curious but unsure where to start.

​🍃 Want to make more climate-conscious choices in your daily life.

​💸 Are interested in how your money, habits and voice can drive change.

​💡 Want to be part of a positive, solutions-focused climate conversation.

​By the end of the session, you’ll walk away with clear actions you can take immediately, and a renewed sense of how your individual choices contribute to a much larger, collective movement.

​Because when people act together - that’s when real change happens. And yes - all attendees go in the draw to win a year of Ben & Jerry's! 🍦