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 & [...]
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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 »
Reticence, Reluctance and Inertia or just plain retarded, Universities & Education for Sustainability
Posted in Blockages to Change, Climate Change Denial, LinkedIn, University on 8, October, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
The Talloires Declaration* (pronounced Tal whar) was drafted in 1990 in Talloires, France, and starts
We, the presidents, rectors, and vice chancellors of universities from all regions of the world are deeply concerned about the unprecedented scale and speed of environmental pollution and degradation, and the depletion of natural resources.
Local, regional, and global air and [...]
Climate Change Denial
Posted in Blockages to Change, Psychology of Environmental Denial on 4, July, 2007, | Leave a Comment »
As an environmental educator specialising in climate change since 1988, I have always pondered at the denial existing in our global western civilisation, and particularly my bit of it, on any of the big environmental problems especially climate change.
In my community education and university lectures on climate change, I have used an analogy to get [...]
The Cost of Permaculture Courses
Posted in Blockages to Change, Catalysts for Action, Permaculture, The personal costs of sustainability on 20, June, 2007, | 1 Comment »
On the basis of the Web world being ethereal and ever changing, I copy the WordPress Blog Sustainability Unfolding to this site as Nigel raises some valid issue.
Perma($$)culture
March 12th, 2007
I bought Permaculture: A Designers Manual last week. It was 137$ — probably the single most expensive book I’ve bought since university. That’s a lot of [...]
