What next? Not next week, or next month, but in the coming years? These are the questions our media pundits, caught up in the merry-go-round of faces are not asking, at least, not in public (e.g. Insiders was pretty vapid on Sunday 26th August). There are several good reasons for this present-ism, not least that... Continue Reading →
Songs of loss and pre-emptive mourning
My new earworm is Joey by Concrete Blonde. It's a brilliant song, with astonishing vocals from Johnette Napolitano. It sits alongside other songs of mourning for lost friendships, lost loves (something Paul Kelly and Billy Bragg do well). That sense of hoping to reconnect with someone who has their own battles to fight is... Continue Reading →
Video Vox Pop – how I would do it, fwiw.
Recently I proposed that an organisation (I am a FIFO activist on this) organise some video vox pops around an event that they’re organising for about five weeks’ time. This post is how I would do it. (Or rather, how I like to believe that I would be able to do it. By now, pushing... Continue Reading →
Chairing academic sessions for fun and… diversity #IST2018 #manels #academia
So, the International Sustainability Transitions conference has come and gone. A fine event, with a huge number of scholars delivering papers, speed talks, with plenty of time for schmoozing and boozing. I wrote already about the problem of manels and 'What is to be Done', but that was before I had a) delivered my own... Continue Reading →
#TomLehrer in #Australia (also, happy 90th…)
Tom Lehrer celebrated his 90th birthday today - he's definitely old and grey. Born in New York, Lehrer began studying classical piano aged seven. However, popular music caught his eye, and he began writing show tunes . A prodigy, he started at Harvard aged 15. There he began to write comic songs, including a spoof... Continue Reading →
Guilty Pleasure: Jackson Lamb thrillers
Pointy end of the thesis is upon me. I am getting it done. I'd possibly be getting it done marginally quicker if it weren't for Mick Herron's "Jackson Lamb" thrillers. I stumbled on the first, Slow Horses in a charity shop in Glossop (as you do). The conceit looked amusing - what if MI5 had... Continue Reading →
ABC Insiders 24 September 2017 – observations
Abc Insiders 24 September So, there was an 'extra' bit with Barrie Cassidy pondering the consequences of Abbott's behaviour for energy policy (compare coorey article on same topic in AFR). Programme itself opens with interview/intersplice with the headbutt guy in Hobart Sadly no music over the top of this- too controversial? Could have had “Can't... Continue Reading →
Activism: ffs, read this – Building Movements, Not Organizations
Building Movements, Not Organizations Creating a healthy, humane world will require more than new organizational designs. It will take rethinking the nature of organizations entirely.... What might be possible, therefore, if socially minded organizations and businesses acted more like movements than organizations? And what might that look like in practice? To answer those questions, consider... Continue Reading →
AMEEF – burnishing the mining industry
AMEEF was established in October 1991, as the Ecologically Sustainable Development Process was peaking. One of the first things they did was a listing of all articles environmental, with a lovely cover. Ten years later, it was still going (but would be shut down a bit later). I stumbled across its magazine, Groundwork, recently. Not... Continue Reading →
Blog- Thurs 6 to Sun 9 July
Thursday 6 Around the park five times Two hours at microfiche tracking down crucial newspaper articles for the carbon tax 1994/1995 story. Dead useful, developed a couple of new tricks of how to get the info v. quickly Good meeting with a research librarian, who was super helpful, and put me onto an academic I... Continue Reading →
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