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Ronald Wright on civilisations, progress and the future of humanity
Rarely have I heard someone speak so clearly and comprehensively about the future of the planet, the growth=progress paradigm and why we need a completely new understanding of how to organise...
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Is Melbourne our greenest city?
Images from the recent climate change protest on St Kilda beach in Melbourne made me ponder this question. A city that capitalises on trams and a walkable CBD and one that holds an annual...
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Earth to Senator Fielding – Are you for freaking real !?
There has been a dreadful sense of deja vu this last fortnight as Australia’s lone Family First senator (and local village idiot) jets back and forth the planet on a one man mission to uncover the...
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Ups and downs
The good: World leaders agree that we should attempt to keep global warming limited to 2 degrees Celsius or less (even if their actions don’t fit their stated goals). It’s a little odd though that the...
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Climate Change & the Torres Strait
Economist Ross Garnaut discusses the “unmeasurables” of climate change; like the cultural heritage and homes of thousands of Torres Strait Islanders. If Tuvalu is beyond our horizon, surely we can...
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Ecology lessons from traditional cultures
While the term “racist” is a little too loosely thrown about, Ariel Salleh, a sociologist from the University of Sydney, makes the case for a far more radical sustainability discussion to the one that...
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Sleek freaks and links to critiques
I’ve been watching the Superfreakonomics saga unfold with interest. I confess that I have not read either this book or the earlier Freakonomics, that kicked off the franchise. I have however, observed...
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Enviro portal
Traditional print media have always filtered the news through the various sections of the paper – Business, sport and so on. And it has always worried me that there is no “environment” section in most...
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