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23.01.2022 Microfibres are released when we wash our clothes The need for a complete rethink on every one of the taken-for-granted assumptions of our industrial urban civilisation grows by the day. Washing our clothes has created 5.6 million tonnes of microfibre waste Jessica Hamzelou writes in New Scientist...Continue reading

22.01.2022 Homebuilder Blunder - "We could create a virtuous circle of investment and cost savings, alongside warmer, healthier homes." We need a New Green Deal, Social House, Energy Efficiency & a huge reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions..., & we could do it for the same economic stimulus $s. "For less than the $25,000 homebuilder grant we could retrofit a social housing property. On average this would cover solar, a hot water heat pump, upgrades to thermal performance (through unde...rfloor, cavity or rooftop insulation, sealing and draught-stopping), a good-sized battery, and replacing gas heating with electric." Homebuilder was a blunder - spend the money retrofitting social housing instead https://www.theguardian.com//homebuilder-was-a-blunder-spe

22.01.2022 Policing in America is now acknowledged worldwide to have failed the people. The message is clear, But how to fix it ? "A discussion about how to reform policing. Moderated by Emily Bazelon Photographs by Malike Sidibe...Continue reading

21.01.2022 ANU-based Joëlle Gergis, a leading Climate Scientist & author writes: "It’s 3am and I’m awake again. It’s no exaggeration to say that my work as a climate scientist now routinely keeps me up at night. I keep having dreams of being inundated. Huge, monstrous waves bearing down on me in slow motion. Sometimes I stop resisting and allow myself to be sucked in. Other times, I watch as a colossal tsunami builds offshore. I panic, immediately sensing that I don’t stand a chance....Continue reading

20.01.2022 Reasons for Hope as we prepare to survive The Great Disruption "I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see very many descendants of Saruman. And I think we Hobbits now have no magic weapons against them. And yet, dear gentle Hobbits, may I conclude by giving you this toast: To the Hobbits! And may they outlast all the wizards!" JRR Tolkein 1958 2020 has been a big shock to the global village, with #Megafires, megafloods, & the Covid19 pandemic. Many...Continue reading

19.01.2022 Growing social inequality is not socially or environmentally sustainable "Pride and privilege: why Australia needs grand designs for containing corporate greed Frances Flanagan "The desire to contain greed was a crucial dimension of early 20th-century nation-building. Do we have the political will to restrain it in the 21st?"... https://www.theguardian.com//pride-and-privilege-why-austr

19.01.2022 Bad News for Trump & Republicans with intergerational shift. They Predicted ‘The Crisis of 2020’ in 1991. So How Does This End? Two scholars coined the term millennial and developed a fan base for their grim theories. Now, the surviving one sees a generational realignment happening in American politics that does not bode well for Republicans. By Jeremy W. Peter May 28, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET They called it the Crisis of 2020 an unspecified calamity that could rival the gr...Continue reading

18.01.2022 The media: 'enemy of the people' or taking tyranny to task? Simon Bourke "Sometimes history provides a moment, an image, a piece of film, that has the power to capture the full weight of a crisis. Occasionally those images have a way of telling a story that resonates with such gravity that it carries a meaning well beyond the actual incident....Continue reading

18.01.2022 From 1 person to 10 million in 180 days, with over 500,000 deaths. This is the exponential growth of a novel zoonotic (species jumping) viral pandemic. And it's not stopping, but is instead mutating from a disease mainly impacting and killing older people, to one where now 1/3rd of the seriously ill are younger adults. "How the World got to 10 million cases. The world has now recorded its 10 millionth person infected with the novel coronavirus, 180 days after the first case...s were reported in Wuhan, China. As the virus spread throughout the world this year, it reached every continent apart from Antarctica, as the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared it a pandemic. http://www.abc.net.au//world-records-ten-milliont/12400746

18.01.2022 Ecosystem Engineers: Creating Habitat for Others At The Sanctuary, our wombats, echidnas & lyrebirds create modify their environment & create habitat opportunities for other species. In other Australian ecosystems it can be Bilbys, Bandicoots & other burrowers. Or in Nth America & parts of Europe, Beavers are one of the best known ecosystem engineers that also acts as a keystone species, creating whole complex pond environments that many species totally depend on... https://www.oriannesociety.org//ecosystem-engineers-creat/

18.01.2022 When people do not have critical thinking skills, or access to a public broadcaster committed to tell the truth, they are just puppets waiting for the puppet master to manipulate - "When Antifa Hysteria Sweeps America - The panic is a measure of how deluded public discourse has become. By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist June 17, 2020 What can we possibly make of the crisis that unfolded in the remote Oregon seaside town of Coquille? Coquille is a sleepy logging co...Continue reading

14.01.2022 As Facebook Boycott Grows, Advertisers Grapple With Race Companies like YouTube, Condé Nast and Vice addressed systemic inequality and economic uncertainty while showcasing their new offerings to advertisers. By Tiffany Hsu June 26, 2020 "At this time of year, hordes of advertising executives are usually striking deals on yachts in the French Riviera or at meetings in Manhattan, not sitting at home worrying about their future....Continue reading

14.01.2022 Could Modern Monetary Theory funding a Green 'New Deal' be the best way out of the Covid19 Economic Depression? How to build a fair and Green Economic System after Covid-19 Covid-19 has highlighted huge weaknesses in our economic systems. New Scientist asked six leading economists how to redesign it to reduce inequality and save the planet...Continue reading

12.01.2022 "America, We Break It, It’s Gone" - Democracy took millennia to evolve, but can be destroyed in a generation or less. With defective leadership at national level in UK and USA, in dealing Covid, or all 3 on fixing the #ClimateEmergency or growing social inequity, we need leaders from the community, local government, business, & social & eco-entrepreneurs to step up & fill the vacuum. Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Friedman concludes that "Help is not on the way from this White Ho...Continue reading

11.01.2022 "There is now an existential need to build economies and societies that support Earth system harmony rather than disrupt it," Nobel Laureates warn ! https://phys.org//2021-04-humanity-colossal-future-nobels.

10.01.2022 Multiple Systemic Errors by NSW & the Commonwealth Governments have squandered our precious Covid advantage now Sydney is in lockdown "After a world-leading response in 2020 it did not have to be this way Eighteen months into the Covid pandemic, Australians by now should have been looking forward to prudently and cautiously opening to the world. But rather than opening up, our largest city is shutting down....Continue reading

09.01.2022 The Brands Pulling Ads From Facebook Over Hate Speech An effort to pressure Facebook to crack down on hate speech and misinformation has prompted dozens of advertisers to say they’ll stop spending on the platform. Here are some of the biggest companies involved. By Tiffany Hsu June 26, 2020 "Facebook is facing a growing boycott by advertisers unhappy with its handling of misinformation and hate speech, including its laissez-faire attitude toward recent posts from President T...Continue reading

06.01.2022 The media: 'enemy of the people' or taking tyranny to task? The Canberra Times - Simon Bourke "Sometimes history provides a moment, an image, a piece of film, that has the power to capture the full weight of a crisis. Occasionally those images have a way of telling a story that resonates with such gravity that it carries a meaning well beyond the actual incident....Continue reading

06.01.2022 A good analysis of the rise of the American Dictator "Donald Trump Is Our National Catastrophe With malice toward all; with charity for none. By Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist This spring I taught a seminar (via Zoom, of course) at the University of Chicago on the art of political persuasion. We read Lincoln, Pericles, King, Orwell, Havel and Churchill, among other great practitioners of the art. We ended with a study of Donald Trump’s tweets, as part of a class on demagogy...Continue reading

06.01.2022 Eight big issues for vulnerable students highlighted by coronavirus crisis, charity says "The report identifies eight key areas of concern: The "digital divide" faced by families without computers or internet, or multiple children sharing one device Challenges with homeschooling such as the stress of establishing new routines and financial pressures from the cost of stationery, printing, etc Increased risk of students disengaging altogether particularly those starting... high school this year, or in year 10 Unemployment as many tertiary students lose their jobs Mental health concerns Limitations on family life and loss of family supports creating issues with interactions with extended family Food insecurity and the closure of school breakfast clubs, with one family's weekly food budget increasing from $200 to $350 Delays and difficulty accessing support services A separate report released today by the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) warns disadvantaged students in NSW, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT will have fallen several weeks behind. https://www.abc.net.au//coronavirus-students-back/12273772

04.01.2022 Scientist & science communicator Amy Reid writes: "Good news: US classrooms are warming to evolution, thanks in part to scientist outreach Advocacy works, but more must be done to protect against misinformation. "At a time when misinformation seems to be ascendant, a decades-long effort aided by the scientific community is bearing fruit. Results published on 10 June show that the proportion of US secondary-school biology teachers who present creationism as a scientifically va...Continue reading

04.01.2022 "Bad balance: why dangerous falls are on the rise around the world" Around the urbanised, industrialised world, people are more prone to falling, especially as they age. The simple version, is that walking on nice smooth regular surfaces diminishes the complex mechanisms that keep a bipedal (walking on two legs) species upright. "Modern lifestyles are making our balance worse and leaving us more vulnerable to devastating trips and falls. The good news is, it's never too l...Continue reading

03.01.2022 Bad News about the Pandemic: We’re Not Getting Back to Normal Any Time Soon Thinking that we might is an example of what psychologists call anchoring bias "As the vast majority of businesses and states have tried to reopen and people rush back to public life, they’ve run headlong into the trap of getting back to normal. They didn’t realize we’re heading into a period of waves of restrictions once again, due to many states reopening too soon. Indeed, some of the states to...Continue reading

03.01.2022 Electric Vehicle tipping point accelerating like a Tesla Model S towards Australia !!! https://thedriven.io//ey-says-tipping-points-for-electric/