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March 2009 Blog Posts (8)

"Once Were Gardeners" - Maori Television, 5.30pm Sundays : ) CHUR!!!

Tired of paying for overpriced under-nourished fruit and vege's at your local store?

Can't afford some flowers for your anniversary?

GROW IT YOURSELF!!!

My bigger scarier more Maori brother Pete Smith does this chur as gardening show for people who know nothing about it or who don't care about pompous victorian gardens in some random UK area.

Check this out. Tough fullas aint tough unless they got dirt under their… Continue

Added by Dan Wilcox / Sweep on March 31, 2009 at 15:56 — No Comments

Eco-Film Evening at Michael Park School Auditorium, 55 Amy St, Ellerslie

WEDNESDAY 8th APRIL 2009 7.30 – 9pm

Entry by Koha – Auditorium open from 7pm - Coffee and Cake Available as fundraiser for purchasing food trees

“Establishing a Food Forest” (the Permaculture Way series)

Enquiries contact Christine Todd christine.todd@xtra.co.nz or Cathy at the school office on 5793083

Excerpt from Film Review available at www.transitionculture.org

Geoff Lawton is a permaculturist’s permaculturist. As one of the first ‘wave’ of… Continue

Added by Christine Todd on March 27, 2009 at 22:26 — No Comments

Sustainability 2.0

I've just found the book Sustainability 2.0 - see http://sustainabilitythebook.com/

It's great reading as an overview of the links between sustainability, the internet, business and shifts in the way we socialise and create communities. if you're a designer, researcher or marketer, it gives a great overview of the whole. And if you're a relative newbie to sustainability, it gives a fabulous feel for the recent history of sustainability. And if you're like me, you also just enjoy… Continue

Added by Supplejack on March 27, 2009 at 12:30 — 2 Comments

CCS and Biochar - A Slippery Slope?

The most recent trend in the public debate about climate change mitigation is the production of biochar, also referred to as biological carbon capture and storage (CCS). Biomass is turned into charcoal via pyrolysis (see figure to the right; from … Continue

Added by Jonas Sonnenschein on March 26, 2009 at 21:30 — No Comments

An Open Letter to Paul Henry

Please go to

http://good.net.nz/blog/guests/an-open-letter-to-paul-henry

If the link doesn't work, here is what I wrote:

Paul Henry won TV Guide’s Best On the Box award this week.

This morning Mr Henry told us all that Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth was "absolute rubbish", and said—regarding the climate crisis—"there is absolutely nothing New Zealand can do to help".

That is a very comforting thought for someone who is old enough to… Continue

Added by Carla Braun-Elwert on March 20, 2009 at 12:02 — No Comments

religion, environmentalism, frustration.

If only people were as passionate about our natural environment as they are about their religious beliefs. Perhaps an amalgamation of environmentalism and religion would satisfy the human need to ‘believe in something’ and the entire living world’s plight to well, live on.

Imagine what the world would be like today if this were the case. There of course would still be the sinners, just a different array of sins – wastefulness, polluting, consumerism... Some of the classic sins would… Continue

Added by Deena on March 18, 2009 at 9:40 — 3 Comments

On still asking 'what's sustainability?'

I'm interested in sharing ideas about design and research in particular, as well as 'strategic' aspects of sustainability.

My experience of sustainability is that it's emergent - and will be for a long time yet, as it's still a conversation without universally shared assumptions or truths - where we start by checking what we mean by 'sustainability' in a given context.

So I think the basic question 'what's sustainable?' is still very useful for understanding both what it… Continue

Added by Supplejack on March 5, 2009 at 14:30 — No Comments

Fallacies in Ecological Communication - Appeal to Authority

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is omnipresent. There is barely any scientific article, political report or university-presentation about climate change without referring to the IPCC. In most of these cases the data or arguments of the organization are not questioned as the IPCC is regarded as an authority in the field… Continue

Added by Jonas Sonnenschein on March 3, 2009 at 21:30 — No Comments