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movers and shakers in water policy

This Friday 5 March Dr. Sander Meijerink from Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands will share his insights into how individuals and collectives shape water policy reform.  Giving examples from 15 different case studies, he will describe how policy ‘entrepreneurs’ work strategically to build coalitions and manipulate decision making forums in order to guide water [...]

Fairness and justice in environmental decision-making

Catherine Gross will present the results of her PhD at the Fenner School, ANU on Thursday 4 March,1-2pm in the Forestry Lecture Theatre Forestry Building 48 for those of you in Canberra. If you’re not a local, you can watch a video of her research. Catherine presented her video at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Millennium Conference: Water-Ecosystem Services, [...]

eco-shopping in the Philippines

I have just moved to Manila, and went shopping for household basics in the truly enormous Trinoma mall yesterday. I searched in vain for recycled toilet paper, settling at last with one half written in Chinese and Korean script, with a picture of an earth and an explanation of how recycled paper saves trees. Sharing [...]

hope helps (or: smiling whilst working in fisheries)

It was many years ago now that my Filipino supervisor said to me ‘it’s important they see hope in all of this’. He was referring to the Filipino artesanal fishers that we were to invite to a workshop on how addressing the fact that it often costs the fishers more to go fishing than to stay [...]

Snippets

• Join in Mike 's rant about for-profit scientific publishers and the culture of entitlement over at scienceblogs.com. #
• Reforming the economics of food production and supply would be beneficial for a number of environmental and social problems, argues Peter Baker at BBC online. #
• Should Australians cultivate native foods for the table? Join Catalyst’s Paul Willis, New Inventor’s Bernie Hobbs and Les Hiddins (aka The Bush Tucker Man) to debate the sustainability of our current food industry. Sunday Aug 17, 2 to 4pm, King O’Malley’s Irish Pub, Civic. #
• The Australian Science Festival 2008 will be held in Canberra from August 16 to 24, 2008. #
• The Ecological Society of America's next annual meeting will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 2009, on the theme of “Ecological Knowledge and a Global Sustainable Society”. #
• The Eighth International Conference of the Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability network: "Kā kaiārahi o te kaitiakitaka: Tertiary Education Institutions Leading for Sustainability." 1-3 October 2008 in Christchurch, New Zealand. #
• Systems types at the DCSWiki (Distributed and Complex Systems). #
• Ruminations on architectural sustainability over at BLDGBLOG. #
• An interesting article on academic blogging by Nicholas Farrelly of New Mandala. #
• Savannah cats have now been banned in Australia by Environment Minister Peter Garrett after receiving over 500 public submissions on the issue. #