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, … [Read more...]
Sustainability Innovators
December 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
The Clean Industrial Revolution
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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 … [Read more...]
The Greenhouse: a very green conversation
December 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
Hans Baer: health impacts of climate change
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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 US, UK, and Australia, … [Read more...]
To new horizons with Sohail Inayatullah
December 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 being opened not … [Read more...]
Andrew Wilford: through the lens of sustainability
December 19, 2009 By 1 Comment
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 the complex world of big business … [Read more...]
Graeme Taylor: made for change
December 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 compared … [Read more...]
The woman behind the greenhouse
December 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
Denying climate change: it’s a question of morality
December 13, 2009 By 2 Comments
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 … [Read more...]
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