Hi Jennifer, This year’s bushfire season in Tasmania has been accompanied by the shrill political voice of the Australian Green's Senator Christine Milne. On Thursday she attacked the state’s professional forest service in a game of one upmanship … [Read more...] about Bushfires in Tasmania: A Note from Cinders
Archives for December 2006
Weekend Reading
Regulars at this blog know I have started posting a collection of links to interesting opinion pieces, interviews and newly published articles on some Saturdays under the heading ‘Weekend Reading’. This gives me the opportunity to quickly pass on … [Read more...] about Weekend Reading
Bushfires Across North East Victoria: A Note from Max Rheese
There are out-of-control fires burning across northern Victoria, Australia, with more than 170,000 hectares consumed so far. There is an update in today's The Age and also a photo gallery which can be accessed from the main page. Yesterday I phoned … [Read more...] about Bushfires Across North East Victoria: A Note from Max Rheese
Pondering Peak Oil: Following Transport Fuels Forum
James Ward, convenor of the Australian Association for Peak Oil and Gas Young-Professionals Working Group, recently attended a Forum in Adelaide on 'Transport Fuels: Future Prices & Supply Security Risks'. Here is his very much abridged summary … [Read more...] about Pondering Peak Oil: Following Transport Fuels Forum
Brisbane to Vote on Waste Water Recycling
I live in Brisbane, in south east Queensland, and the city has historically relied on three dams for all its water. Not so many years ago politicians boasted that the dams were big and we would always have enough water. Now we have level 4 water … [Read more...] about Brisbane to Vote on Waste Water Recycling
New Picture Book on Buyat Bay
Buyat Bay on the Island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, is perhaps best known as the place where Canadian mining giant Newmont dumped tailing from a gold mine allegedly polluting the bay and poisioning the local villagers. Increasingly it appears the … [Read more...] about New Picture Book on Buyat Bay
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
