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Summer update 2009

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 [...]

The Greenhouse: a very green conversation

The Greenhouse venue at the Woodford Folk Festival continues to be a mecca for many environmentalists. And it’s where the mainstream merges with the greenstream.
It’s a place where conversions take place, where ordinary festivalgoers with no previous environmental commitment to live sustainably suddenly see that lifestyle changes are necessary if this planet can continue to [...]

Hans Baer: health impacts of climate change

Hans Baer earned a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Utah in 1976. He taught at ANU in 2004 and is presently at the University of Melbourne. Hans has published 16 books and some 160 book chapters and articles on a wide diversity of topics, including Mormonism, African American religion, complementary medicine in the [...]

To new horizons with Sohail Inayatullah

Brainstorming with Sohail Inayatullah is an experience where you are taken on a journey to future horizons, to a limitless array of possibilities and social scenarios – whatever he can bring your mind to imagine.
To some people they might be mirages never to be grasped, for others with a different mindset it’s like a door [...]

Andrew Wilford: through the lens of sustainability

Andrew Wilford is a professor with a passion, a really clever bloke, but he prefers to be known simply as Wilf.
Wilf, who lives with his wife Rosie in an oasis-like, three-level hill-hugging home in Brisbane, at one time had a sharp haircut and wore an air force uniform before he flew higher and eventually into [...]

Graeme Taylor: made for change

Canadian-born Graeme Taylor used to be an emergency paramedic before he found his way into academia and later becoming an award-winning author.
Whatever he does, he does it with passion. You hear the urgency in his voice as if there’s no time to lose. It’s probably always been his way.
But saving accident victims lives is nothing [...]

The woman behind the greenhouse

The woman behind the Woodford Folk Festival’s Greenhouse program prefers to be the quiet, effective achiever in the background, rather than spearheading campaigns.
That woman is Jillian Rossiter – she’s not exactly a shy, retiring person but she does respect her self-imposed limits and does brilliantly within them, working hard to bring people together to discuss [...]

Cycling to the Woodford Folk Festival

When you stage an event that regularly attracts more than 100,000 people over six days, it makes sense to encourage patrons to travel lightly and leave their cars at home. This helps to cut back on those worrying carbon emissions, reduces congestion and makes the festival experience more pleasant for everyone.
With this in mind, the [...]