Everyone knows it’s a new year. I’ve got better things to talk about. Like the Bible and how self-expression is a basic human need on a par with food and my theory of how people consistently move from a spiritual experience or two to dogma and the dream of gluten free pastry and invisible misogyny and… [Read more…]
March 31, 2011
When I started this blog last year, I set it up on the premise that it was a testing site for my online presence. I got some really useful comments on that post, but mostly just posting regularly for almost a year has shown me what I want to do. Here’s what’s going to happen:… [Read more…]
March 15, 2011
I put together my photo post about my first month in Melbourne knowing full well that it was a lop-sided view of what it’s been like. It’s all true but it’s not the complete story. A big move, even between cities as similar as Melbourne and Brisbane, is a shock to the system. This is… [Read more…]
November 29, 2010
This entry was originally posted on 14 July 2008. I still use it as an example of the randomness of the opinions that I blog about and it has come to mind recently since Ben Law talked about the diversity of families that exist in our country. I can’t believe I wrote this over two years… [Read more…]
November 15, 2010
There was a mini-project within the conference that I haven’t mentioned yet. On the Friday, MC Dick got the delegates to split into groups of five or so to work on a creative project exploring some aspect of climate change. Over the two days, the groups got together during break times to formulate their… [Read more…]
November 15, 2010
On Friday morning at TippingPoint, there were two presentations. One I’ve already written up and the other was entitled Climate Change: Where We Stand. It was delivered by Professor Jean Palutikof, Director of Australia’s National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility at Griffith University in Brisbane. The facility is charged by the Federal Government to provide… [Read more…]
November 13, 2010
Today the open space workshop continued with participants being encouraged to work in a collaborative, action-oriented way, building on the exploration vibe of Friday. Several new topics were suggested and I captured most of them below, including the names of the people who brought them up where I knew who they were. Food sustainability. What… [Read more…]
November 13, 2010
After lunch on Friday, an open space workshop started. I’d never heard of the format before. First of all, the group identifies topics for discussion and then splits into smaller groups for parallel meetings on each of the chosen topics. The conference MC Dick Robertson asked people to suggest topics that they felt personally connected… [Read more…]
November 13, 2010
The crux of Dr Stephen Pekar’s presentation first thing yesterday was this: there is no debate among scientists about the authenticity of climate change and whether human activity is causing it. The challenge, he said, appears to be how to effectively communicate this fact to policy makers and a public that continues to mistakenly perceive… [Read more…]
November 12, 2010
The second presenter at last night’s opening was Natalie Jeremijenko, who Skyped in from Washingon DC. She had been working at The Edge for the last week but had to be in the USA for something this week. Officially, she’s an artist and engineer who has studied both biochemistry and neuroscience and who works in… [Read more…]
December 31, 2011
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