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Any idiot with a spirit level can prove that the Earth is flat.

The climate change debate in Australia is messy and surprisingly inconclusive. Maybe we need new words to help us meet the challenge of discussing it more rationally. Can I suggest the following? –

plimering (verb) – The wilful misrepresentation and obfuscation of facts (espec. scientific) particularly when undertaken in a bellicose and bullying manner.

The Ecologist of 9 December 2009 published an interview with Paul Kingsnorth, former deputy editor of the Ecologist, who “tells Matilda Lee why an obsession with CO2 has distracted environmentalists, and why we may already be beyond the point of no return…” ( http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/378231/paul_kingsnorth_environmentalists_have_lost_their_way.html )

I totally agree with most of what Paul Kingsnorth has to [...]

To hear a 17 minute podcast of a talk I gave as part of the Murray Darling Basin 2009 Ranges to River Science Forum on the 25th August 2009, go to:

http://www.samdbnrm.sa.gov.au/BoardPodcasts/2009RangestoRiverScienceForum.aspx

The forum was convened by The South Australian Murray-Darling Basin Natural Resources Management Board (SA MDB NRM Board) along with the Ranges to River NRM [...]

Want to hear a story? I’ve made my first foray into youtubing… check out Climate and Coal on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yIqCx-zT-0

There are now links to my publisher on the new Ecopolis Architects ‘media’ page (http://ecopolis.com.au/book.html) so you can begin the process of buying my book right there!

The Ecopolis Architects site (www.ecopolis.com.au) had been compromised by hackers – this is now fixed and the site has been tidied up, at least visually. It is still desperately in need of having its content updated, but that’s on the way. The pages have been re-arranged and there are now direct links to my publisher [...]

A recent enquiry from student Veronica Quintero from NJIT, researching architecture firm logos, prompted me to publish this short piece about the Ecopolis logo.

The Ecopolis graphic device is generated from a combination of age-old symbols: A circle with a horizontal line across — ancient symbol for Water An open circle — ancient symbol for Air A circle with [...]

The Asia-Pacific Forum for Environment and Development (APFED), which is hosted by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), has announced that the Christie Walk Ecocity Project, Adelaide, South Australia has won the Silver Prize in the Ryutaro Hashimoto APFED Awards for Good Practices.

This new international environment award is given for outstanding achievements in the [...]

I conduct ‘thought experiments’. These can be fun. They cost almost nothing, you can do remarkable things to anyone, anywhere, anytime — and they don’t even notice! My favourite experiment focusses on metropolitan Adelaide (you can do this too).