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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 [...]

Sustainability Innovators

Sustainability innovators: Agents of change on the Sunshine Coast
Author: Dana C Thomsen
Documenting the stories of ten people from the Sunshine Coast, who according to their peers and colleagues have dedicated considerable time towards sustainability, Dr Dana Thomsen, Lecturer in Sustainability Advocacy at the University of the Sunshine Coast acknowledges their dedication and leadership in her new [...]

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.
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“A passionate and [...]

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 [...]

Denying climate change: it’s a question of morality

When faced with tragedy, atrocities or grief we humans, it appears, have a wonderful way of dealing with it. Denial.
In his book States of Denial, Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering, sociologist Stanley Cohen writes: “One common thread runs through many different stories of denial: people, organisations, governments or whole societies are presented with information that [...]