Music by Daylesford songster, Archer .

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I've been following Adam Roberts' engaging five part series on the state of contemporary poetry, published in The Atlantic . I'm...

Since agriculture and animal husbandry first appeared, perhaps 10,000 years ago, hemoglobinopathies and adult lactose tolerance are almost t...

Warrigal Greens. Image: John Tann via flickr CC A Victorian Aboriginal community has returned to traditional hunter-gatherer methods to solv...

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

I've been reading John Michael Greer 's The Long Descent, and have found it an extremely useful text in understanding political and ...

Turning the compost is an obvious enough metaphor; artists do it all the time, cycling materials and concepts – peddling forward, foraging b...

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...

I'm taking a rest from preparing a presentation that I'm giving in Melbourne as part of the Tipping Point conference , "Art and...

Eighteen months ago, after Obama came to office, I blogged that he'll " either be shot or fully bought within 12-24 months ". ...

For this month's Greenwash I invited my girlfriend, Meg Ulman , to guest write. Meg chose to focus on Lucas Ihlein's  Environmental ...

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...