Another bit of excellent research from the ANU (Australian National University) with Professor Brendan Mackey’s team looking at 132 forests around the world. They found that Australia’s Victorian eucalyptus gum forests hold 1,900t CO2/hectare 4x more than tropical forests
Brendan Mackey ANU | ABC news http://bit.ly/13yA4v
Archive for June, 2009
Old growth forests store carbon best – ABC News Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Posted in Carbon Sinks, Climate Change, tagged ANU, brendan mackey, carbon, carbon sequestration, Climate Change, inappropriate subsidies on 18, June, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Oregon gardens climb the walls
Posted in Green Walls, tagged bioswale, Green Walls, urban design on 18, June, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
This style of vertical garden art was started by French scientist Patrick Blanc http://bit.ly/10ei7v
Urban gardens go up the wall – OregonLive.com.
RESOURCES
• The Chicago Botanic Garden sells a “Vertical Gardening” (Issue #4) fact sheet with directions for $3.
• Smith & Hawken sells mini vertical gardens in the form of polypropylene trays that stack up to [...]
Grist – responses to myths of the climate change denial industry
Posted in Blockages to Change, Climate Change Denial, Environmental Activist, Musings on Life, tagged Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Grist, myths of climate change on 17, June, 2009, | 1 Comment »
Despite 140+years of climate change science, tens of thousands of peer reviewed articles on every aspect of the natural world tree rings, corals, beetle, ice coverage, thickness & melting rates, atmospheric gas greenhouse forcings, etc covering the past, current & future, the denial industry in the blogsphere and rural & regional Australia is alive & [...]
ChangeThis :: The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design
Posted in Systems Thinking on 15, June, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
This looks like useful for designers and systems thinking creatives. It’s another way of thinking about the design process, and although couched in web design terms has the potential for all other design applications as well, where the designer needs thinking tools for getting close to what the clients need.
ChangeThis :: The Design Funnel: A [...]
Global Humanitarian Forum – Climate Change responsible for 300,000 deaths a year
Posted in Catalysts for Action, Climate Change, Food Security, Water Shortages, tagged Climate Change, Food Security, Global Humanitarian Forum, human crisis, Kofi Annan on 14, June, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
The human face of the existing impact of Climate Change is now being quantified. Climate Change is a human crisis where the poor of the world are already suffering significant illness, loss of life and livelihood.
Report projects that by 2030, worldwide deaths will reach almost 500,000 per year; people affected by climate change annually expected [...]
California’s Water Woes Threaten the Entire Country’s Food Supply | Water | AlterNet
Posted in Climate Change, Food Security on 13, June, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
US Secretary of Energy, Dr Stephen Chu is telling it like it is. Described as a “Cassandra on a mission of truth” and “a dystopian breath of fresh air” in this posting from AlterNet. | Water| the issues of California’s retreating water supply get a good airing. Scott Thill states
“Simply put, global warming, human-induced [...]
Web 2.0 – “Here comes everybody” Clay Shirky
Posted in Sustainability is Information Intensive, Systems Thinking, Web 2.0 on 2, June, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
As any intelligent and eco-literate person will be aware. we are, to use an Australianism, “up sh*t creek in a barb wire canoe with a gum leaf paddle”. The enormity of the personal and social challenges we are facing in order to even acknowledge the environmental issues, let alone dealing with them adequately are enormous.
This [...]
