Barbara Hardy (environmentalist)

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Barbara Hardy

AO
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Barbara Hardy in 2009
Born
Barbara Begg

1927 (age 95–96)
Largs Bay, South Australia
NationalityAustralian
Education University of Adelaide
Known forEnvironmental and climate change work

Barbara Rosemary Hardy AO (born 1927) is an Australian environmentalist and scientist.

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She is the patron of the Barbara Hardy institute, affiliated with the University of South Australia. The Barbara Hardy Institute researches low carbon living and sustainable energy. [1] [2] Her research interests include renewable energy, biodiversity conservation and ecologically sustainable development. [3]

Biography

Hardy was born Barbara Begg in 1927 in Largs Bay, South Australia. [4] She completed her secondary education at Woodlands Girls' school by the age of 16 and enrolled in a science degree at the University of Adelaide. [5] She later studied at Flinders University. [6] Hardy has been volunteering in the environmental field since the 1970s.

Hardy volunteered at the Conservation Council of South Australia, starting in 1972, and then enrolled in a degree in earth sciences at Flinders University, in 1972. Hardy worked with the Minister for the Environment, David Wotton, in the 1970s and 1980s. She has worked for the Australian Heritage Commission, Landcare, the National Parks Foundation and the Investigator Science and Technology Centre. [7] [8] [9]

Hardy was a co-founder in 1981 [10] [11] and as of 2022 a patron of Nature Foundation in South Australia. [12] One of their properties, Hiltaba Nature Reserve, has a walking trail named after her. [10] She is also a patron of Friends of Parks Inc. [13]

Her focus is ecologically sustainable development, renewable energy production, and biodiversity. [7] At the University of South Australia, Hardy was a founding board member of the Sustainable Systems and Technology. She then became a patron of the Barbara Hardy Institute, at the University of South Australia. She is a proponent of citizen science, where scientific projects have participation from community members, with collaboration between members of the public and scientists. She believes that when members of the community have their voices heard, this can influence their behaviour and attitudes. [14]

Hardy is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy, [15] and was one of SA’s top 50 most influential Environmentalists. [16] There has also been a Barbara Hardy wine label competition, for a designing a label for bottles of shiraz. [17] [18] She has won numerous prizes from 1987 to 2014, including multiple honorary degrees, over a span of five decades, and was one of Australia's early leaders in conservation.

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  2. ↑ "Hardy Institute" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 January 2022.
  3. 1 2 Miles, Sally (25 November 2011). "Life Member Profile: Barbara Hardy AO". Australian Science Communicators. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
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