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Category Archives: Environment

It’s like a…

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From Feeling Hot Hot Hot! Dealing with Heatwaves a hypothetical, Marion Cultural Centre, February 7th. Metaphors aside, South Australia is the home of an actual giant battery.

Less ash, more wonder…

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Artwork for signs at Bowman Park, near Crystal Brook, South Australia. The park is becoming more popular, especially with RV travellers. The signs aim to alert campers to environmental issues: controlling pets, avoiding the spreading weeds, and in particular, discourage the gathering wood for campfires. Trees, logs and fallen branches are habitat for lizards, birds and insects.  Areas in the park are being left bare from the camp fire wood gathering.

Vision, coming in to land…

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Edible Adelaide poster illustrating Natural Resources Adelaide & Mount Lofty Ranges’ Edible Adelaide report – ‘cultivating a shared vision for a more edible Greater Adelaide‘. There are links to the report and an A4 300dpi file of the poster on that page. More background on the development of the report is on the Sustainable Communities South Australia Inc site here.

Things you can’t miss seeing…

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A view from the train, Frankfurt to Berlin.

Up, up and…

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The Scratchy Lines cartoon for the April edition of New Internationalist. The Australian New Internationalist blog and shop are here. And more: become a New Internationalist community shareholder, ‘become a media pioneer and buy into journalism with facts and heart’. The New Internationalist crowd funding project will only be funded if at least £500,000 is invested by 6th April 2017 – 84% raised so far.

Sami impact…

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Schematic illustrations from the paper Sami-state collaboration in the governance of cumulative effects assessment: a critical action research approach  (Larsen, Raitio, Stinnerbom, Wik-Karlsson) in Environmental Impact Assessment Review 64 (2017) 67-76. More about the indigenous Sami people here, and similarities with Australia’s indigenous peoples’ experience here.

Jargon fails planet…

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Our Home book launch

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For more information or getting copies of the book contact the author Sue Coad  -suecoad@adam.com.au   or visit www.facebook.com/unofficial:Our Home

Trying…

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The January-February New Internationalist  Scratchy Lines cartoon. The Australian site, with blog and shop, is here.

It’s the people…

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Illustrations from the Quality of Life Report, the work of community leaders of the Aboriginal human services sector in South Australia, presented to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Citizens’ Jury 2, late last month.

To quote from the report:  ‘The government wants us to have a conversation about nuclear. As Aboriginal community leaders and NGO service providers we say “No” to this proposal… We want the government to understand that we want a different conversation; one that focuses on unfinished business, including our experience of Maralinga; on the sickness that it created in our people and in the land; and the pain and loss that it caused. Our people need to have a future’.

The citizens’ jury was run by DemocracyCo, and more information about citizens’ juries and other research alternatives can be found at new Democracy.

 

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