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Our finest or darkest hour?
Paul Gilding tells us it is the end of economic growth. Not only is the earth full, but we have gone beyond its carrying capacity. In other words, we are over the credit limit on the ecological ‘credit...
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2012: the year we did least to safeguard the future
The world did not end in 2012 as the Mayans predicted, but as George Monbiot documents in a superbly authored piece in The Guardian the other day, humankind is certainly doing its best to engineer...
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Time for bipartisanship
When faced with an emergency, it has been common practice for governments to adopt a bipartisan approach. This has happened routinely during times of war and, typically, resources have been mobilised...
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Climate change and the disconnect between science and policy: Do we have to...
The Climate Commission was established, among other things, to provide Australians with an independent and reliable source of information about the science of climate change. Last week the Commission...
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Climate Resilience
This is the slide deck I presented at the Asia Pacific Centre for Social Enterprise (APCSE), Griffith University, Open Lecture Series this week.
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Hog wash: Economic development in China
There has been some speculation in recent weeks as why 16,000 dead pigs floated down the Huangpu River. The rotting carcasses threatened the water supplies of those depending on this river system...
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The vanishingly small proportion of peer reviewed research rejecting AGW
John Cook, lead author of Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature, 2013, Environmental Research Letters, 8 (2) While the climate science community has...
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Community engagement: not something you do after work
In this presentation, I essentially make the point that community engagement should not be viewed as an add-on; an act of charity or something purely philanthropic. Doing what you love, and loving...
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The pale blue dot
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The...
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Abbott’s G20 agenda: climate still the elephant in the room
By Jeremy Williams, Griffith University News emerging from Washington last week suggests climate change may amount to more than an FAQ in the appendices of this November’s G20 leaders’ summit agenda....
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Economic Growth, Climate Change and the G20: A View from Civil Society
A summary of the proceedings from the APCSE conference on Economic Growth, Climate Change and the G20 is now available on Medium.com
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Teacher education in the developing world: Why it’s time for educational...
Image source: flickr.com/photos/irex/7421138946 Followers of Audrey Watters and her essays on the ‘History of the Future of Education’ will know that there has been a tendency...Read More
View ArticleThe future of learning: Five trends that could change the face of Indian...
The education system in India is in trouble and everybody knows it, not least of whom is the Government, whose inputs to the National Education...Read More
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