Vivienne Elanta Yummy Book Fund for academic and environmental excellence Inaugurated 2005 ISTP Murdoch University Wadjuk Bioregion

Who was Vivienne Elanta: Vivienne Elanta was a long-term activist and Deep Ecologist. She was involved in countless projects to help bring about a shift from the current Industrial Growth Society to a Life Sustaining Society. She was cofounder of the Western Australian Gaia Foundation and had a great love for trees and frogs. Her passion lay in facilitating Deep Ecology Work. She was involved in, and extensively trained in this work in both Western Australia and interstate over the past 25 years. Vivienne was a high distinction candidate studying a BA degree in Gaia Philosophies and Environmental Ethics at Murdoch University, winning the Vice Chancellor's Award for Academic Excellence in May 2004. Vivienne died of a deep brain cancer on the 16th August, 2004, and expressed at the time of her death, her great desire that her work continue to inspire activist-scholars in Western Australia. About the Book Fund: Dr Patsy Hallen (Senior Lecturer - ISTP) and Dr Anthony Weston (ISTP Visiting Scholar - 2004) have graciously donated a small sum to initiate The Vivienne Elanta Yummy Book Fund. This fund is intended to provide funding assistance for book purchasing to the sum of $300 per award to a student or students of Environmental Ethics (STP 206/406), Ecophilosophy and Practice (STP 255/455) and Ecofeminism (STP 221/421). To this sum, Vivienne's partner, John Croft has added a further $150 per award to enable a second prize to be offered. The fund is likely to run for several years. A short list of students from these three courses will be compiled between May and August each year through nominations from the course coordinators and tutors of each course. These nominations will be forwarded to Paul Pulé (Post Graduate Research Student), whom in consultation with Patsy Hallen, Anthony Weston and John Croft, the course coordinators, tutors and the nominated students themselves, will select a winner (and possibly a runner-up). The award will be presented at the departmental morning tea in September. Nomination Criteria: The fund will be awarded to an activist students who display academic excellence, along with an embodied awareness of the ethical and philosophical aspects of environmentalism. Nomination Information: Nominee: First Name: _____________________M.I. ___ Last Name: _____________________ Age: ________ Gender: ________ Student Number: ______________________________ Postal Address (please include postcode): _________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Phone: ____________ Mobile: _________________ Email: ___________________________ Course Enrolment: _________________________Year of Enrolment: 20______ Grade: _____ Nominator's Name and Contact Details: First Name: _____________________M.I. ___ Last Name: ________________________ Postal Address (please include postcode):__________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Phone: ____________ Mobile: _________________ Email: ___________________________ Reasons for Nominating this Student: Why have you chosen to nominate this Student for the Fund? __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________   Kindly return this nomination form to: Paul M. Pulé Post-Graduate Research Student ISTP - Murdoch University Room 3.10   Phone 08-9360-2775 Mobile 0409 299 196 Email:p.pule@murdoch.edu.au