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...
View ArticleUps 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...
View ArticleClimate 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...
View ArticleCoalition cosies up to big business
The opposition seems to think that we need an emissions trading scheme that keeps big business happy. Funny, I thought the idea of an emissions trading scheme was to SAVE THE PLANET. MALCOLM Turnbull...
View ArticleEcology 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...
View ArticleSleek 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...
View ArticleOceans of Acid
Here’s a nice article from Australia’s Cosmos magazine. It’s nominated for an Earth journalism award. You can vote for it here. Oceans of acid Pickrell, John Cosmos Magazine (2009-02-06) Read the...
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