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Architectural sustainability
Ruminations on architectural sustainability over at BLDGBLOG.
Savannah cats banned
Savannah cats have now been banned in Australia by Environment Minister Peter Garrett after receiving over 500 public submissions on the issue.
Feral Thoughts
Feral Thoughts: the blog of the Invasive Animals CRC’s CEO Tony Peacock.
Swimming with Whale Sharks
This Friday the 8th of August, Wendy Rainbird (Nature and Society Forum) will be leading a discussion on “Swimming with Whale Sharks: the place of direct experience in valuing and understanding the natural world”. We will explore the issues for effective on-going conservation management, human interactions with and threats to the whale sharks, and the changes these bring to oceanic ecosystems, political processes and personal values.
Resource management in Asia-Pacific
The RMAP blog at the Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, ANU.
Backyard gardening
Hire someone to make you an organic backyard garden in the States.
Savannah Cats (review)
For this Forum, Penelope Marshall led us through a work in progress on the current troubled importation of the Savannah Cat into Australia. This involved stepping back from the controversy to look at how this case depicts tangled webs of failing governance and deliberation, alongside the problematic consequences of humanities project of modernity and ethical dilemmas at the heart of how we think the world should be.
From the Music of the Spheres … and Back Again (review)
‘From the Music of the Spheres to the Clatter of the Dice and Back Again’. Well, for this Forum John Schooneveldt lead us on one very stunning trip, covering 4 billion years, into some seriously big ideas and re-conceptualisations, and to which I can not do justice in a few paragraphs, but here is a shot at a slice of it.
A sense of urgency and peril?
This Friday the 1st of August, Desley Speck (PhD candidate, Fenner School, The ANU), will be leading a discussion on “A sense of urgency and peril? Australian perceptions of climate change and their political influences”.
Concept/content mapping software VUE
Great concept/content mapping software from Tufts Uni: VUE.
