ecopolis now

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.

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 [...]

Christie Walk is the first development of its kind in an Australian city. It can lay claim to a number of substantial firsts:

As an advocate of Ecopolis for the best part of 2 decades I was pleased to see the idea given such a beguiling presentation in New Scientist of 17 June.

There has been a good deal of seminal work by far more people than Fred Pearce mentions, but he has done a fair job of bringing together most of the key issues that define an Ecopolis (and the front cover illustration was terrific!).

What I can’t understand is why he misrepresents Christopher Alexander as an advocate for inflexible cities that deny the value of neighbourhoods.