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For-Profit Scientific Publishers and the Culture of Entitlement

Kim — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:51:44 +0000

Join in Mike ’s rant about for-profit scientific publishers and the culture of entitlement over at scienceblogs.com.

Food security

Kim — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:11:18 +0000

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.

Feast or Famine – Science in the Pub

Kim — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:31:40 +0000

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

Kim — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:26:39 +0000

The Australian Science Festival 2008 will be held in Canberra from August 16 to 24, 2008.

94th ESA meeting

Kim — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:59:59 +0000

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

Kim — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:43:25 +0000

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

Kim — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:14:59 +0000

Systems types at the DCSWiki (Distributed and Complex Systems).

Architectural sustainability

Admin — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:04:47 +0000

Ruminations on architectural sustainability over at BLDGBLOG.

New Mandala

Kim — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:29:03 +0000

An interesting article on academic blogging by Nicholas Farrelly of New Mandala.

Savannah cats banned

Admin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:42:51 +0000

Savannah cats have now been banned in Australia by Environment Minister Peter Garrett after receiving over 500 public submissions on the issue.

Feral Thoughts

Admin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:34:35 +0000

Feral Thoughts: the blog of the Invasive Animals CRC’s CEO Tony Peacock.

Resource management in Asia-Pacific

Admin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:26:31 +0000

The RMAP blog at the Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, ANU.

Backyard gardening

Admin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:23:53 +0000

Hire someone to make you an organic backyard garden in the States.

Concept/content mapping software VUE

Admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:01:00 +0000

Great concept/content mapping software from Tufts Uni: VUE.

Communicating visual information

Admin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:48:11 +0000

Communicating information visually: A Periodic Table of Visualistion Methods.

ecologicalhumanities.org

Admin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:02:21 +0000

The Ecological Humanities website based around these people, mostly at the ANU. Would be great if they had a comments page or at least a contact email!

Change The World

Admin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:59:13 +0000

Oaktree Foundation’s Hugh Evans (also co-chair of the 2020 Youth Summit) is working on a new TV series called “Change The World“: ‘The Amazing Race’ meets ‘The Apprentice’ meets ‘Make Poverty History’ meets ‘The Inconvenient Truth’.

createchange.org

Admin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:51:48 +0000

Creatchange.org examines new opportunities in scholarly communication, advocates changes that recognize the potential of the networked digital environment, and encourages active participation by scholars and researchers to guide the course of change.

Worldchanging.com

Kim — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:18:32 +0000

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 change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it’s here. We only need to put the pieces together.

obsessive consumption

Kim — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:16:19 +0000

Obsessive consumption: what did you buy today? Daily drawing blogging and writings about things that may or may not have to do with artwork, graphic design, everyday life and popular culture.

radical cartography

Kim — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:14:39 +0000

An Atlas of Radical Cartography is a collection of 10 maps and 10 essays about social issues from globalization to garbage; surveillance to extraordinary rendition; statelessness to visibility; deportation to migration.

green instructables

Kim — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:13:22 +0000

Instructables has teamed up with Discover magazine to bring you the Green Science Fair For a Better Planet! DIY sustainability projects.

Cosma Shalizi

Kim — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:10:29 +0000

Helping Honours students since 2005: Cosma Shalizi’s extensive, eclectic and generously shared Notebooks.

more accessible

Kim — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:07:40 +0000

Google co-founder Larry Page’s advice to scientists? Take your scientific studies, market them better and make them readily accessible to the world. That way, the world might have a better chance at solving problems like energy consumption, poverty and global climate change.

citeulike

Kim — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:03:47 +0000

Dan’s reading list at online reference sharing website CiteULike.

Resilience Science

Kim — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:58:58 +0000

The Resilience Science weblog is a research network of scientists and practitioners from many disciplines who collaborate to explore the dynamics of social-ecological systems. Key RA concepts include resilience, the adaptive cycle, and panarchy.