Jennifer Marohasy

Hi Jen
Have you seen those little picture things in your blog (and at other sites)? Well… Inspired by none other than G Bird I have hacked through your page source and found the relevant link.
Neat little freeware service… Creates a gravatar for you to make your blog persona come alive.  And you can have a library [...]

Australia will join China in implementing mandatory censoring of the internet. Read more here.

Hi Jen,
 
http://climateresearchnews.com/ is now live.   
 
Regards,
Paul Biggs
 
 
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Paul’s nearly 500 posts at this blog are archived here: http://jennifermarohasy.com/blog/author/paul/   

Regular readers of this website will have noticed that since yesterday we have a new blog banner and upgraded blog format.
I am not yet familiar with all the new gadgets, widgets, asides and facilities that come with the new format and I am still to add links and develop comment policy settings. So, please be patient, [...]

Americans will go to the elections in November and the Republican Presidential nominee, John McCain, has chosen a woman who believes in hunting wildlife and drilling for oil in Alaska as his running mate.
Hunting and drilling in wilderness areas are issues that many politicians in the western world tend to shy away from or actively [...]

Some who adhere to the global warming theory use the Precautionary Principle (PP) as a reason to act. Their claims are that even if the science is not guaranteed as to the cause and effect of our emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) that the PP dictates that we act to reduce our emissions. [...]

The Victorian Government has awarded a fiction writer, Richard Flanagan, their highest award for outstanding journalism.
The judges awarded the John Curtin Prize for Journalism to Richard Flanagan for an article on “the tragedy” of Tasmania’s forests, a piece that was described by Australia’s Minister for Forests, Eric Abetz, in June last year as including 70 [...]

I started this blog on April 14, 2005, pondering what it means to be a progressive environmentalist. For more than two years various people made a significant contribution to the blog including Neil Hewett and Paul Biggs. About a year ago I asked them to take a more prominent role in the [...]

Joe Biden is Barack Obama’s running mate and perhaps the next vice president of the USA. Popular website Grist has examined his environmental record and found it to be very ‘green’. The Senator:
1. was a cosponsor of the Boxer-Sanders Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act, which advocated a cap-and trade-system for greenhouse-gase [...]

I visited Alexandria Bay at Noosa National Park last Thursday. It’s a beautiful place about 160 kms north of Brisbane on the east coast of Australia.

Pandanas palm with view to Pacific Ocean.
There is a sandy track that winds through woodland and heathland from Sunshine Beach.

Scrub turkey under pandanas palm.
It is always fun to explore [...]