Archive | Commentary RSS feed for this section
A new technology threatens the establishment at the same time it offers a richer reading experience
Creative destruction is the process of destroying something that exists in order to create a new version of it or the create something completely new. It's a process that's been going on for some time now, and it's about to hit the newspaper industry...
Continue reading...Talkfest indicates disconnect between community and peak environment organisations
6. March 2010
March 2010's Climate Action Conference was a worthwhile event that highlighted a bridgeable disconnect between the peak environment organisations, academics and grassroots movements towards sustainability...
Continue reading...Education bureaucrats stifle, not reward innovation
26. February 2010
The promise by NSW education department bureaucrat to punish students hacking their state-provided netbooks rewards fear, not innovation...
Continue reading...Serendipitous encounters on a drizzly summer morning
4. January 2010
It's sort of strange how a relaxing walk in the morning drizzle can lead to encounters of the vergetative kind...
Continue reading...Now, here’s an idea, Sydney Ferries
12. October 2009
Why is the private catamaran ferry service to and from Manly to be preferred to that offered by Sydney Ferries? Is it time to change public transport from a public service into a social enterprise?
Continue reading...Beware phone nazis disguised as librarians
25. September 2009
An incident in Manly Library calls into question librarian attitudes to a popular and universal communication device...
Continue reading...Seals, possums and pests… wild in the city
17. August 2009
Whether its seals or seagulls, in cities, people and animals coexist and both can come out the better for the relationships they develop...
Continue reading...Manly’s beach – forever changing but always the same
27. July 2009
In June and again in July, the Great Sea God that lives offshore of Manly beach reached out to scoop away the sand...
Continue reading...A little noise with your coffee, ma’am
20. July 2009
A FRIEND OF MINE now avoids the popular practice of taking a break or meeting friends in cafes. It’s not that she has suddenly become anti-social or that she has taken a dislike to our national beverage, coffee. It’s just that she finds cafes and coffee bars to be too… well… too noisy. “I don’t like [...]
Continue reading...Going to Launceston? Just don’t breathe too deep
11. July 2009
CAUGHT BETWEEN rapacious extractive industry on one hand and the sublime beauty of nature on the other, Tasmania remains a paradox in the Australian political landscape. Now, there’s something else to add to the offshore contradiction that is this southern island state – Launceston’s air. Launceston is a small city of around 70,000 that spills north [...]
Continue reading...
- The Trainer papers... 4
- The Trainer papers... 1
- Why is Food Connect taking off?
- Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
- An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
- Policy related documents
- Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner
- Something new, something edible this way comes
- Rosemary's retrofit a good home forever
- Lawson residents ready to garden as community
- Yvonne Gluyas: Yes, it WAS 'Barricades"!!! Now I remember that so...
- alfredo zotti: Dr Bob Rich has given some valuable feedback on my...
- alfredo zotti: I would like to add a correction here. My wife mis...
- Merilyn Thomas: Today I was waiting for my son to have an MRI in T...
- Jane Logan: Hi Russ I am doing an assignment for uni (I am st...
Upcoming events
From Plains to Plate…
You can participate in the Future of Food website
The Plains To Plate website was set up as the communications hub for the Plains To Plate Future of Food conference in Adelaide earlier this year and continues as a service linking food system aficionados around Australia.
Why not visit your food friends and join the conversation…
14. April 2010
0 Comments