BY PETER FITZSIMONS, author, ex-wallaby and columnist A funny thing happened the other day. My wife’s car, which had hitherto been a sleek, sexy, beautiful piece of creation – rather like her good self - turned into this belching, farting, polluting piece of creaking crankiness – rather like me. How did this happen? Well, to be fair [...]
Entries from May 13th, 2008
Val Plumwood has a Last Word?
May 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Blog
For the past week or so an e-mail about eco-feminist-philospher, Val Plumwood, has sat in my inbox. It was one of the many hundreds that have arrived from her friends and colleagues since she died. It was a link to a piece by Plumwood published posthumously in the Australian Humanities Review and the accompanying note from [...]
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The Biodiversity Superhighway
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Blog
At first sight the newly-conceived Great Eastern Ranges Conservation Corridor – a continuous link of natural vegetation from the Alps in Victoria to Atherton in the Wet Tropics might seem like a gimmick. After all surely a corridor along the Great Eastern Ranges already largely exists? Isn’t the Great Divide mostly already in National Parks [...]
DIVING WITH WEEDY SEADRAGONS
May 5th, 2008 · No Comments · News
By JAMES WOODFORD It is a cold grey morning in Twofold Bay near Eden and Professor David Booth and his doctoral student Jaime Sánchez-Cámara are hunting for dragons. It is not the mythical, fire-breathing variety they want to find but a creature almost equally as marvellous – the cryptic and spectacular weedy seadragon. Their boat [...]
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