A number of us have been working pretty hard to organise a trip to Daylesford by Michael Reynolds. He came and gave a workshop on Thursday a...

Yesterday I received this strange email from a project manager acting on behalf of the university where I'm conducting research: Dear St...

The sense of entitlement that many drivers have on the road has become decidedly apparent since we gave up our car and began riding greater ...

On ABC News 24 this morning I listened to the mayor of Cairns give a report on the devastation caused by Cyclone Yasi. She finished with a...

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There has been a rampant growth of nationalism in Australia over the past few decades, following America's "we are the greatest dem...

I'm currently reading The Post Carbon Reader , which is a timely anthology of resilience thinking and transition planning. This video is...

As there have been new calls for a new national flag today, here is my small contribution to Australia Day, otherwise known as Invasion Day ...

Maria and Erikka, our inaugural SWAPs – social warming artists and permaculturalists – have just left our home en route to another permacult...

Last year a solitary news report became the seed bank for this near-readymade musical anomaly , which soon sporulated into hundreds of cove...

Since selling our car it's been treadlie power everyday: Bike work, bike tour, bike camp, bike draw, bike fun.

Fifty cyclists turned up for critical mass this month, which landed on NYE, so we joined the annual parade, as we're want to do . Here w...

Three years ago we gave up supermarket food. Two years ago we took down the kitchen clock. A year ago we gave up air travel. And, this week ...

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Spermapoesis Man arrested after ejaculating during TSA pat-down A 47 year old gay man was arrested at San Francisco International Airport af...

"Dreaming" or "dreamtime" refers to a time of fluidity, shapeshifting, interspecies conversation and intersexuality, rad...

I made this prohibition-sign-cum-visual-poem in 2004. With talk around here of Oprah visiting our pretentious little town in the next few da...

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

Earlier this year Hillary Clinton wrote: On their own, new technologies do not take sides in the struggle for freedom and progress. But the ...

...and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face...

Is the metabolic potential for a biophysical poetry – a poetry of the body and its environment (in an era of unfolding climate chaos and fos...

Can we apply Masanobu Fukuoka 's 'Four Principals of Natural Farming' to poetry? The principals are: 1. No cultivation. 2. No ch...

In his comic masterpiece, The History of Oil, Robert Newman insightfully states that Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen wouldn't be kno...

i read the packet’s contents (over twenty ingredients listed) and wonder how food made for supermarkets remains so cheap and how this super ...

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

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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...