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Asia Pacific Master Blogging Challenge Posts
Read the sweet and sour pressure-cooked blogs from the 2011 Asia Pacific Master Blog Challenge
World Ocean Day
@FCousteau, grandson of THE Cousteau has tweeted the following: Happy World Ocean Day! For our planet’s health and our future, perform an act of kindness toward the oceans. Great idea.
Ecohealth
HEF article published: Cleland and Wyborn “A reflective lens: applying critical systems thinking and visual methods to ecohealth research”, Ecohealth (OnlineFirst)
Food prices
Food prices are at a new high according to the UN. From Climate Shifts.
SHE2011
The Society for HumanEcology Conference 2011 (SHE) early-bird rego closes soon (15 Jan). Submissions for papers clos the end of Jan 2011. President Terry Chapin will deliver a key note. Also look forward to round table discussion on the development of HumanEcology within ESA and any mutually beneficial cross-over with SHE.
Idleness
One for the holidays: we’re happier when busy, but our instinct is for idleness, according to an article on the British Psychological Society’s page (link from Leigh Sales at the Drum)
Climate Change Action 2011
What will 2011 bring for climate change policy in Australia? John Olenich makes some predictions at the Drum
Food security in cities
How will growing cities eat? ANU’s Rob Dyball and David Dumaresq co-authored this Letter to Nature underscoring the importance of food security to the future of cities
Californication: now infecting an environmental activist near you
Is Californication a reality? Read a filmmaker’s account of the Hollywoodisation of environmental activists and scientists alike at the Benshi
Decision Point 2010
Read the final issue of the Applied Environmental Decision Analysis’ newsletter Decision Point. Download it here
