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Future Sparks – engaging kids in a clean energy future
Green Cross Australia has a new project up and running called Future Sparks. It’s all about getting school kids involved in thinking about clean energy and coming up with their own ideas and...
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Low carbon living – what are the priorities?
There’s an excellent article in The Conversation today from Barney Foran, that discusses a whole-of-lifecycle approach to calculating greenhouse gas emissions. Foran has been involved in work that uses...
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The characteristics of sustainability leaders
What makes somebody a sustainability leader? Does sustainability leadership require different skills to other types of leadership? Tim Cotter from Awake tackles these questions in a recent post on...
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Welcome to the Anthropocene
In late March, London hosted a major international conference focusing on solutions to the global sustainability challenge. The Planet Under Pressure conference drew together nearly 3,000 scientists...
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Sustainia
Imagine if a desirable and achievable sustainable future was a real destination that you could visit today. Well a team led by Erik Rasmussen has begun the task of creating just such a place. They have...
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The Happy Planet Index
The New Economics Foundation has just released the third version of its global Happy Planet Index (HPI). The Happy Planet Index measures what matters: the extent to which countries deliver long, happy,...
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The story of change
A few years ago, Annie Leonard and Free Range Studios put together a video called the Story of Stuff that went viral. You can watch it below. It’s all about the hidden underside of our production and...
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Climate of the Nation
When you follow the state of public debate on climate change in Australia closely, like I do, it can be hard to maintain a positive outlook. When Kevin Rudd came to power in 2007, one of the factors...
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How will we treat Mars?
I’m a big fan of science fiction. Star Wars was released when I was five years old. My parents took me to see it at the old drive-in cinema (yes kids, there used to be drive-in cinemas). From the...
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The ethics of climate change
Last night at the Australian Museum, Clive Hamilton gave a blistering speech on the ethics of climate change. Hamilton has little time for those who deny the scientific evidence of climate change. In a...
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Language Intelligence – the art of rhetoric
Language Intelligence by Joe Romm I only read one serious book over my summer break – Joe Romm’s Language Intelligence. The rest of my reading time was devoted to indulging my love of science fiction –...
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Chris Jordan’s message from the gyre
I’ve been an admirer of Chris Jordan’s digital photographic art for several years now. His Running the Numbers series paints an unflattering portrait of American and global consumer culture that...
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Imagining utopia – a review of News from Gardenia
I’ve just finished a fascinating novel by Robert Llewellyn called News from Gardenia. The futurist Richard Slaughter - a colleague and mentor of mine - introduced me to the book when he gave a guest...
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Staying with strangers – my first experience of Airbnb
Thanks to Airbnb, this is what I saw this morning when I woke up I’ve just spent a few days in Melbourne, which gave me a chance to do something I’ve been meaning to do for a while – try out Airbnb....
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EcoArts Australis Conference
EcoArts conference banner Earlier this week, I attended a stimulating event – the EcoArts Australis Conference, held in Wollongong. EcoArts Australis is a new organisation based in Wollongong that aims...
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