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A time to unite

Anyone who has attended meetings will know — the greater the number of people, the less chance there is of obtaining an outcome.
Therefore the outcome of Copenhagen should come as no surprise. Governments from wealthy countries know that voters are easily swayed by economic arguments. Poorer countries want more for their people. While we all [...]

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 Clean Industrial Revolution

The Clean Industrial Revolution
Growing Australian prosperity in a greenhouse age
Author: Ben McNeil
The race is on to find ways to reduce our impact on the environment. Ben McNeil shows us how we can make the most of our natural advantages and how Australia businesses can benefit economically when adapting to the new environmental realities.
Description
“A passionate and [...]

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 [...]

Population: the real problem?

Letter to the Editor
By now it would seem beyond doubt that global warming is a reality and a serious problem. Precisely how much of it can be attributed to human activity and how much to natural causes may be open to debate. There is also mass starvation and violent aggression, manifesting in our part of [...]

Copenhagen: Wong meets with Australian youth delegation

Penelope Ward, reporting from Copenhagen

Excitement and nervous energy turned to frustration and angst as thousands waited outside the Bella Centre, with NGOs, IGOs, media and official party delegates all swarming around the centre to get to work. With the heads of state of 192 countries arriving this week, security has been tightened and any forms [...]