Video: Children for the SDGs

In August, FEA in partnership with Questacon and the Australian Academy of Science released a short video featuring children from an Australian primary school outlining the UN SDGs. This video has been viewed over 1.1 million times on Facebook alone, and has been shared over 200 times. Watch this video on our homepage. As a direct response to this video, FEA received a substantial philanthropic donation from the McDougall family.

Professor Ian McDougall was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 1988 for his pioneering work on the application of K-Ar dating to young basalts and its use for determining the geomagnetic reversal timescale and the relative motion of the Pacific oceanic plate to the underlying mantle. He solved an important controversy over hominid evolution by provbiding a comprehensive and precise timeframe for the important fossil beds around Lake Turkana in northern Kenya and conducted noble gas geochemical studies on mantle derived samples to provide insights into the composition and evolution of Earth's atmosphere, crust, mantle, and core. FEA was thankful to receive this donation from the McDougall familt, which will support FEA activities including an event to be held in November 2019 on the circular economy.