Today on Youtube, while doing grunt work on the PhD (goes quicker with a soundtrack), I stumbled on something I don't think I'd ever heard - a political (feminism) pop song from the 1980s. You can watch it here, followed by my attempt at lyrics and a John Berger quote that seems to fit.... "Following... Continue Reading →
The gift that keeps on giving: of solar panels and Australian Prime Ministers #climate #auspol
On 20 October 1997 a team of Greenpeace activists scaled the walls surrounding Kirribilli House, the Sydney residence of Australian Prime Minister, John Howard. Solar panels were rushed past the security guards and lifted up on to the roof as a 'gift' to the Prime Minister. From the roof, the protesters used mobile phones to... Continue Reading →
#Climate refugees? We were warned almost 30 years ago. #qanda
Two Australian scientists warn that Australia will have to take climate refugees! Yep, you guessed it. They made this warning in... 1988. Quiddington, P. (1988) SCIENTISTS WARN OF ISLANDS' PERIL Sydney Morning Herald 23rd August Australia may need to take in a wave of environmental refugees from coral atolls in the Pacific and Indian oceans,... Continue Reading →
Group dynamics and “research agendas from below” #IST2015
So, I was at the International Sustainability Transitions Network conference for 3 and a half days. (Here’s my take on days 1 and 2.) Because I am a mug, I volunteered to be one of the chairs of the “Shaping the future transitions research agenda” process, which ran on the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. This... Continue Reading →
Environmental #IST2015 – of ‘sustainability transitions’ and (beyond) the ivory tower
There's nowt as practical as a good theory, as we sometimes say up north. If true, this would make the University of Sussex one of the most practical places in the world about now. The sixth International Sustainability Transitions' (IST) conference (the main event of this network) is taking place over 3 and a half... Continue Reading →
#climate and #Australia, or, “The paranoid style in… Australian politics”
I ripped the title off from here. My simple point is that the recent hilarity/dismay/shrugging caused by Maurice Newman (Prime Minister Abbott's chief business advisor) is not a new 'meme,' as the young people say. Lisa Cox of the Sydney Morning Herald starts her 8th May 2015 story as follows - Climate change is a... Continue Reading →
The Fujimoto Imperative
My, doesn't that sound like a particularly bad Robert Ludlum novel (three inch thrillers with three word titles)? It's about being able to blot out the horrible thing that is inevitably coming, and do what you have to do in the meantime. Sisyphus blah de blah, yadder yadder yadder. In case you don't know the... Continue Reading →
All those Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model agony aunt letters in one handy place
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda, and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’ - technological innovation (or lack thereof) in response to societal problems (car safety, local air pollution, climate change). Here’s a... Continue Reading →
DILC and the ProblemLady: Phase 5, the state
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here’s a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors in... Continue Reading →
DILC and the ProblemLady: Phase 5, the industry
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here’s a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors in... Continue Reading →
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