I was recently invited to submit a short video poem as part of a collection to be exhibited at this year's Sydney Writer's Festival ...

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

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On Saturday a few of us adults took 12 boys on a bush adventure for Zeph's birthday. We walked for two and a half hours, stopping to mak...

Designed by Abram Games, 1942. From here . Thanks for the link Ianr .

Have you ever wondered why public parks (with few exceptions) are not filled with fruit and nut trees, vegetables and herbs? Or why schools ...

I caught a very large fly in order to make a brief study of it before letting it go. The wings span approximately 30mm, probably the largest...

We have been asked to participate in an ecologies show at the MCA in Sydney which will open later in the year, and have been steadily workin...

In my research, at this early stage, I am trying to articulate how and why our society suffers ecological estrangement; in other words where...

Greenwash is a monthly column I write on art and ecology for a free street press called Trouble . The previous seven Greenwash columns can...

Until fairly recently – until civilization – nature was a subject, not an object. In hunter-gatherer societies no strict division or hierarc...

I've been reading John Zerzan's Running on Emptiness , in which he describes a small group of Europeans who collectively call themse...

It's been five years since I made this public work in Werribee, Victoria, completed not long after having had the realisation that poeti...

As many of you know we're currently attempting to establish a quarter acre garden as a dynamic food forest. However, it's not only p...

Today Zeph and I helped this local goose free from a fishing hook stuck in her neck. Read more here .

Meg and I displaying the commonsense adage of our grandparents' generation at this year's New Years Eve parade in Daylesford. Thanks...

There's so much to speak to today. Here's the local news: Firstly, my friend Josh, who I write about in the special bike issue of Gr...

George Monbiot in Copenhagen... This is a meeting about chemicals: the greenhouse gases insulating the atmosphere. But it is also a battle b...

The only member of the Artist as Family born at home.

Special Bike Issue. Environmental writer Derrick Jensen believes the only level of technology truly sustainable was developed in the Stone A...

What are your ethics when it comes to food? Is there an honourable way to kill an animal, or does all meat eating rely on merciless acts of ...

A few weeks ago Jason Workman and I pulled the pin on a funded trip to the US scheduled for next year. Our practice has always included a cr...

For a full report on our garden under early-heat-wave duress as well as a new recipe, read my Garden Notes for Relocalisation .

A poem for Jonathan Skinner and mIEKAL aND .

Albatross chick photographed by Chris Jordan. If you’ve read this column before you will know that I have more than a passing interest in an...

detail: Jones, P. ‘A Free-dragging Manifesto’, pp. 41-43, ecopoetics , no. 6/7 2006-2009, Australian Ecopoetics Feature, eds. Michael Farrel...

This TED talk is brilliant! An exposé of the health of the world's oceans.

We're back from our waste gleaning residence in Newcastle, NSW. Our final post on the Artist as Family blog includes a short creative d...