If you are confident in the bush you’ll more likely go there, you’ll want it to be there and so you’re likely to care for and protect it. This is education FOR the environment. I present some analyses regarding our curent relationship with the environment and what we can do to change.
The links between environmental education and community are so interchangeable that can be the other. This article, which appeared in Education Quarterly, describes how learning about a creek is much about citizenship education as it is about wate flows and biodiversity.
Brunswick Street was the street of dissolution when I was young. The TF Much Ballrroom was the epicentre when the Ferret Affair drew the wierdest and most wonderful crowd. My article appeared in Brunswick Street, Art & Revolution, Ed. Anne Rittman and Maz Wilson, published by Black Pepper. Check blackpepperpublishing.com/RittmanAndWilson
Bird names range from the bleeding obvious to the quite evocative and then to the delightful. Then there are drongos and loons, dotterels today and plovers tomorrow and sensitive Collingwood supporters. Here is some musing on bird names.
This collection of pictures was compiled from my last two trips to India, feasting, sight-seeing, bird-watching, soaking up the spirituality and the culture , flying around Sagarmatha and skiing in Kashmir. We stayed in palaces that are relics of the Raj, we prowled the bustling bazaars of Jaipur and Madurai and we hired fat skis to handle the deep powder snow of Gulmarg. You have to love India so let’s go. My travel agent friend in Delhi is ready to make the arrangements.
The article at the URL below sees us stalled at the crossroads. But Christiana Figueres, in talking through her hat as Tony Abbott claimed, makes more sense than any other ‘through-hat talker’ I’ve heard. Oh to be innovative and agile in energy and climate policy in these most exciting of times.http://www.thefifthestate.com.au/urbanism/climate-change-news/australia-is-suffering-climate-paralysis-but-the-prognosis-is-positive/95363
Since their recent rediscovery, night parrots are turning up in a range of locations. Are we seeing the legacy of a number of wet years across the centre? This ABC article suggests a South Australia population.
Indeed, the government should get of the way of the energy industry and the transition that is underway. Their ‘dirty energy target’ is an absolute hindrance to the policy certainty that will accelerate that transition.
Bobby Kennedy Jnr was a powerful community advocate for care and protection of waterways. I have real trouble with the issues for which he advocates now.
Now I don’t want to be an alarmist or catastrophist or any other of those worrisome people but this has me a little worried. Huber says that ‘Lizards will be fine, birds will be fine’ but I’m not one of those. And in only a few generations, will my descendants be among the fewer humans who will be fine? And what does ‘fine’ mean?www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/09/this-is-how-your-world-could-end-climate-change-global-warming