With our recent project in Sydney I think we have achieved what we set out to do in showing how art can itself be a biophysical resource. I...

Amanita muscaria "Once you abstract, to the extent that humans do, you lose the sense of connection to the earthly scentscience of an...

The very same company who refuses to acknowledge its responsibility, pay out proper recompense and decontaminate the water in Bhopal in Indi...

I’ve been in the bush again, grafting a variety of fruit tree cuttings onto wild apples and hawthorns. I pruned quince, peach, apricot, Fuji...

A party that doesn't believe in climate change is a party that champions pollution. Liberal Party anthropogenic waste left outside a ...

Twelve Russian scientists famously chose to starve to death rather than eat the unique collection of seeds and plants they were protecting f...

I was recently invited to submit a critical work for Cordite's issue 33: Creative Commons . Here's an excerpt from All Rights Relinq...

Cheap oil has made us forget the proper relationship we once had to the first six inches of the Earth’s crust. Yet we now know that microbia...

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...

The ABC, by virtue of so-called rationalist accountancy, is yet another public institution being systematically degraded of standards. The l...

We're in Sydney planting out the Food Forest this week, and it's equally beanie weather here as it is at home. A few weeks ago twen...

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Shelling acorns (click for bigger). My little Greenwash column in Trouble magazine is a year old this month, and to help celebrate this ann...

It's been two years since Meg and I watched one of the darkest films of our lives, The World According to Monsanto. This brilliant and h...

For a few years now I’ve been interested in how permaculture, and its siblings – biodynamic and natural farming – can inform an arts practic...

Last year I wrote that "The potential for a (post-industrial, post aggregate-growth) biophysical poetry originates in the development o...

We are at a point in time in Australia where environmental consultants are having to recommend to government which rivers will need to die i...

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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...