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Feast or Famine – Science in the Pub
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.
Australian Science Festival
The Australian Science Festival 2008 will be held in Canberra from August 16 to 24, 2008.
94th ESA meeting
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”.
Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability
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
Systems types at the DCSWiki (Distributed and Complex Systems).
Participatory modelling for coral reef management
Deb Cleland is one of the rocking crew of students who completed Honours in Human Ecology at the Australian National University in 2007. Her innovative honours’ research took advantage of incredible research opportunities with the Modelling and Decision Support Working Group in the Coral Reef Targeted Research Project to carry out practical research on approaches to sustainable reef management. Deb worked with the MDS-WG to design interactive models and role play games to engage stakeholders in coral reef management and conservation issues. Deb has kindly allowed us to post her honours thesis on the Human Ecology Forum website.
New Mandala
An interesting article on academic blogging by Nicholas Farrelly of New Mandala.
Sharing research
Hello HEF! So far the website’s been up for a month, and we’ve had very little feedback. If anyone visits this website, please email me to let me know what you think! As per the HEF listserv email sent out, is very easy to get involved: you can send me information about your ongoing research and about yourself. I can post up nearly anything, including pdfs, slideshows, images, etc. Please take the time to share some of your work as a contribution to the wider academic community. Cheers from Ubud, Bali! – Kim
From the Music of the Spheres to the Clatter of the Dice and Back Again
The case for applying Darwinian principles to explain social and cultural change John Schooneveldt (Nature and Society Forum) Traditional wisdom has long recognised that societal arrangements, beliefs, languages and cultures evolve over time but they do so rather differently to the way living organisms have evolved. In other words, while Darwinian evolution is widely accepted [...]
Worldchanging.com
Worldchanging is a solutions-based online magazine that works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive [...]
