Agroforestry’s time / Tamil Feast’s Richman
Agroforestry’s time It’s hard to know why some things get fished out of in-boxes while others, equally worthy of our attention, are left to drift by and wash up in the eddies of the unread. For some deeply unknowable reason this week I found the clickbait of the Victorian Government’s Report from The Independent […]
Reallocating the red carpet
Reallocating the red carpet Last Monday our own Lorna Pettifer won the equivalent of the Brownlow when she was announced as Australian Environmental Educator of the Year. And though Nat Fyfe is surely good at footy in this time of climate emergency it could be a wise move to reallocate the red carpet from the fella […]
Once you see the emu……
Last week we were up on the Murray River near Renmark looking at an incredibly bright night sky. My wife was showing her Uncle John the dark emu, a sort of unconstellation that exists in the negative space of the milky way (something as familiar to Aboriginal culture as the Shopping Trolley aka Orion’s Belt […]
Discovering our inner ScoMo.
The other day as I watched Treasurer Morrison read out what we were doing with our almost $500 billion federal budget I thought about David Simon, writer of the television series, The Wire, who said the definition of society is what we do with the money, and it felt like we had just defined ourselves as a pretty short-sighted, […]
Weekly Update: Connected Communities Are More Resilient
Last week Chris wrote about how Climate Change is likely to impact our local food systems; increasing prices and making us more food insecure, as higher carbon imports move in to fill the space and add even more fuel to the climatic wildfire… read on…
