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Oakland got in on the Occupy movement and paid the price: Apparently the Church of Scientology conducted a long-term covert investigation of the creators of South Park after an episode of the show satirised the religion. Not sure what they expected to find. Crowdfunding platform Pozible reached $1 million in pledges. If you want some […]
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: […]
November 26, 2010
Here’s the bits and pieces of the internet that kept me entertained and interested and thinking this week. Hope you enjoy. The first installment in a three-part series on 2010 in Australian Federal politics talks about how Australia’s two-party system is over, perhaps forever. Instead, we’ve got a two-and-a-half party system. A clever, funny blog […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
November 12, 2010
According to CSIRO’s Dr Stefan Hajkowicz who is an economist, economics has interesting views on climate change. To explain how to an audience of non-economists, he first explained the concept of the ‘invisible hand of the market’ which was what the father of modern economics, Adam Smith, called the self-regulating nature of the market. He […]
October 28, 2011
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