Larissa Brown is the 2008 Australian Young Environmentalist of the Year. She is the founder and executive director of the Centre for Sustainability Leadership, a non profit organisation dedicated to supporting Australians to make their communities, workplaces and sectors more sustainable. Real Dirt asked her to put some thoughts together for a guest viewpoint…. In the US [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Guest Viewpoint'
Seachange: when forests make way for people
August 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Guest Viewpoint
There is a dark flipside to the great Australian seachange. Bushfire regulations are leading to the devastation of coastal forests, as city dwellers buy up uncleared land. Stuart Cohen grappled with this issue when he purchased a block on the coast. He discovered you can have your forest and a house too… Story and pictures by [...]
Saving the Devils – Fiona Grubb
July 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Guest Viewpoint
Fiona Grubb is a south coast based blogger and town planning academic. She loves Tasmanian devils – and as you will see she is as irreverent as one of those marsupials. Yesterday she wrote a fantastic piece that originated from a post on her site – Kiwi Back in Sydney It was run in the [...]
Saving the Coast: the impact of women – Bruce Thom
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Guest Viewpoint
Professor Bruce Thom, Member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists Human impacts on the coast of eastern Australia since 1788 have been dramatic if not devastating. When looking at individuals who have made a difference, I am struck by the contribution of women in coastal science, advocacy and conservation. Although there are a few [...]
Let’s World Heritage List Sydney Harbour (including North Head)
July 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Guest Viewpoint
Mike Baird Member for Manly NSW Shadow Minister for Finance, Energy, Commerce & Youth Affairs It is hard not to wonder how common sense seems to consistently avoid the halls of power. I am not trying to pretend that I have any greater ownership of this important attribute than others but, when it comes to North [...]
State of the (Landcare) Nation
June 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Guest Viewpoint
Rachel Siewert is an Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia. !– if (typeof showPhotos == ‘function’) showPhotos(’2283633-mediarss.xml’); –> !– if (typeof showPhotos == ‘function’) showPhotos(’2283633-mediarss.xml’); –>At the end of March, Environment Minister Peter Garrett finally announced the Government’s new environment funding package ‘Caring for Our Country’. I say ‘finally’ because the funding under the Natural [...]
Going for green in the renovation nation
June 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Guest Viewpoint
Caitlin McGee Principal Research Consultant Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney Last year my workplace had its tenth birthday party. The invited speaker was Hugh Mackay, well-known social researcher and author of Advance Australia Where? He told of being seated next to a woman at a dinner party whose entire conversation revolved [...]
ROCK DOCTOR TAKES THE PULSE OF AUSTRALIA’S PREHISTORIC ART
May 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Guest Viewpoint
Prof. Paul S.C. Taçon School of Arts Gold Coast campus Griffith University, Qld 4222 p.tacon@griffith.edu.au I am fortunate to have worked in incredible natural and cultural landscapes around the world, many of them in remote parts of Australia. I work closely with indigenous people to study rock art – paintings, drawings, engravings, stencils, prints and [...]
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FITZY, HIS HYBRID CAR AND MARITAL BLISS
May 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Guest Viewpoint
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 [...]
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