I walked along Diamond Creek from Eltham Station on my way to Montsalvat late yesterday afternoon to listen to Vandana Shiva. Gertrude Stein...

I participated in a design workshop earlier this week, and what I brought to it was this little paper outlining why we need to compost the ...

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by Michael T. Klare America and Oil. It’s like bacon and eggs, Batman and Robin. As the old song lyric went, you can’t have one without ...

I created this drawing today as a teacher and parent teaching aid. It's incredible how pervasive the dominant ideology is, and how the a...

I have put together a panel for a forthcoming poetry symposium to be held at Trades Hall in Melbourne. Here are the details, followed by a f...

Primitivism, as a purely intellectual thing, is indeed problematic terrain. However, once the primitive, by which I mean activity that trans...

Natural Bitterness is now available online as a slow text mesostic: Read the full work here .

I gave a reading of mainly new work at the Victorian Writers' Centre last night. I came to the centre from a peripheral place, and spok...

I concentrated this month's Greenwash article on one specific chapter found in the very brilliant Post Carbon Reader anthology . The cha...

Let's make what >we've got [ left ] go further. Let's go! to the other side of Hubbert's Peak.

According to David Holmgren , co-originator of modern permaculture, history has revelled in humanism while remaining largely ignorant of ene...

Oil and the End of Globalization : Mr. Jeff Rubin from ASPO-USA on Vimeo .

My inspiration for life is our parents; so many of the values we have come from them … they told us that if you live by your conscience ther...

A Monsanto winter collection taken at our local tip today. Until 20% of us stop consuming supermarket food and lead the way in alternative f...

I caught a ride on a Greyhound bus recently, traveling overnight between Melbourne and Sydney, and had the pleasure of sitting next to Chris...