Inside this edition
- Woodford Folk Festival: the Greenhouse
- Cycling to the Woodford Folk Festival
- Denying climate change
- Exploring the Past
- Traveston Dam: looking behind the lens
- Up Close: reconnecting with nature
- Christmas reading list
Woodford Folk Festival: the Greenhouse
About the Greenhouse, interviews with: Hans Baer, Sohail Inayatullah, Andrew Wilford, Graeme Taylor, Jillian Rossiter. Read the interviews here. Brought to you by Brian Rickards.
Cycling to the Woodford Folk Festival
Find out how to make the most of your trip to the festival
Denying climate change
When faced with tragedy, atrocities or grief we humans, it appears, have a wonderful way of dealing with it. Denial. Read more.
Exploring the past
Another selection by Dr Deborah Jordan and taken from a newspaper cutting held in the Palmer Papers. This piece, Caloundra: reasons for being there was first published in the Brisbane Telegraph, 28 January 1928.
Nettie Palmer was born and bred in Melbourne and alive to the differences between the Sunshine and the south. She, too, was city reared so conscious in the process of attunement when she moved to Caloundra in 1925 with her husband and children. She like him, lived by her pen and wrote much about the region. Here she reflects.
Traveston Dam: looking behind the lens
It’s often said that a picture paints a thousand words. Photographs of faces of anguish after the initial announcement, beautiful natural scenes that were so close to being lost forever and finally faces of joy and relief after the simple word, ‘no’ echoed throughout the Mary Valley.
Arkin Mackay’s images made the issue personal. They spawned far more than a thousand words. They brought us face to face with the product of government decisions.
And most importantly they reminded us that although a river can physically divide communities, rivers can also bring people together in a way not often seen before.
Ian Mackay, Arkin’s father, proudly reminds us about the importance of her work. Read more.
Up Close: Reconnecting with nature
Paul and Sally Johnson have both had a long experience with nature through their personal and professional lives. Along with their two daughters, Elly and Jessie, they have been quietly and modestly working towards a sustainable existence.
In this edition we take an Up Close look at their lifestyle and why they decided to home-school their daughters. Read more.
Christmas reading list
Crunch Time: using and abusing Keynes to fight the twin crises of our era (Tony Kevin)
Sustainable Innovators: agents of change on the Sunshine Coast (Dana Thomsen)
The Clean Industrial Revolution: growing Australian prosperity in a greenhouse age (Ben McNeil)
See you in 2009
Thank you to all our readers, online subscribers and contributors. We hope you have a great Christmas and we look forward to bringing you more Eco news in 2010. Have a safe and peaceful holiday.
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