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25.01.2022 PUT THIS IN YOUR DIARY TIMESCAPES EXHIBITION AT GANG GANG Opening Saturday 4 July 2.30pm for the month of July... Immerse yourselves in TIMESCAPE VOICES with Sharon Riley, Chris Tobin, Rich Evans, Sean Butler, Jayde Lutschini, Patsy Wolfenden and Lex Ladd, and the visual images of Sean OKeeffe Curated by Barbara Lepani, Sean OKeeffe and Brad Diedrich
25.01.2022 The great acceleration that defined the Anthropocene may have begun in 1945, but in 2020 we are facing the first crisis in which the blowback destabilises our entire economy. As it has circulated around the world, Covid-19 has scrambled the timeline of progress. In a horrific mind-warp, advanced economies suddenly find themselves facing the kinds of dilemma habitually faced by poor countries. Addressing the climate crisis poses the daunting challenge of slowing the entire system down. What Covid-19 teaches is that it is not just the big picture that matters. So tightly knit is our global system that small failures of governance in a few crucial nodes can affect everyone on the planet.
25.01.2022 Come along to this important online discussion on November 11
25.01.2022 HUMANS ARE THE WILD BEASTS OUR PLANET, DRIVEN BY THE CULT OF ECONOMISM AND ITS GLOBAL IMPACT Rampant deforestation, uncontrolled expansion of farming and the building of mines in remote regions as well as the exploitation of wild animals as sources of food, traditional medicines and exotic pets are creating a perfect storm for the spillover of diseases from wildlife to people, delegates will be told.
24.01.2022 ALL I CAN SAY IS - WOW! Yet again we see the vibrancy and power of Aboriginal art and culture in this gorgeous light festival: it is the beating heart and soul of this country we all call Australia. https://www.theguardian.com//australias-parrtjima-light-fe
23.01.2022 BRIDGE TO OTHERNESS: 28 November 4pm-6pm Blackheath Phillips Community Hall. Put it in your diary - unique ode to the Great Western Highway from colonial crossing and portent of loss to Gundungurra and Dharug people, to today's controversy over widening a highway that is both a local road for Blue Mountains communities and a major transport artery for regional Western NSW.... TICKETS: Adults $20, Concession $15-$10, kids free https://events.humanitix.com/bridge-to-otherness-a-response
23.01.2022 THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL CRISIS OF MODERN SOCIETY Its no exaggeration to say that, unless we find a way to think differently about consumption, wellbeing and sustainability, humans will be responsible for our own extinction.
22.01.2022 This report shows that the natural and cultural heritage that is core to Australias identity is being put at severe risk by the governments unwillingness to fix problems theyve been warned about for years, she said. It shows that even when the department is aware of high risks of environmental wrongdoing, like with deforestation from agricultural expansion, they are unwilling to act. The Morrison government announced last week that they want to load this failed system up even further by slashing approval times in the name of slashing green tape. But this audit shows that the current system is not capable of making good decisions, let alone quick ones.
22.01.2022 For years, Australians have argued about estimates of the cost of climate action that ranged from fractions of a percent of GDP growth to fractions of a fraction. This year, faced with a pandemic, Australians have rightly, but painfully chosen to halt much of our economy to save lives. If we have learned anything from what we have already endured in 2020 it is that stopping an emergency is far better than responding to one.
21.01.2022 TIMESCAPE VOICES AT GANG GANG GALLERY Opening Saturday 4 July 2.30pm Enjoy a timescape journey through the voices of Sharon Riley and Chris Tobin, Wiradjuri and Dharug cultural custodians, fighting fires with Sean Butler at Newnes Plateau, cultural burning with Sharon and Lex Dadd, COVID worries with Jayde Lutschini, embracing change with Sharon, Patsy Wolfenden and Rich Evans, and reimagining the future with Rich, Patsy, Sharon, Chris and Lex. ... Curated and arranged by Barbara Lepani and Brad Diedrich, and accompanied by a visual image journey by Sean OKeeffe.
20.01.2022 THE HUMIDITY-HEAT BULB THREAT We may be closer to a real tipping point than we think, said co-author Radley Horton.
20.01.2022 An intense surge in human activity is affecting the environment all across the planet, from burgeoning human settlements to [food production], to increasing mining industries, said Doreen Robinson, Uneps chief of wildlife. This human activity is breaking down the natural buffer that once protected people from a number of pathogens. Its critically important to get at the root causes, otherwise we will consistently just be reacting to things. The science is clear that if we keep exploiting wildlife and destroying our ecosystems, then we can expect to see a steady stream of these diseases jumping from animals to humans in the years ahead, said Andersen.
20.01.2022 BMCAN ANNOUNCES CHANGES TO 2020 CALA EVENT BMCAN has accepted the recommendations of the 2020 CALA Committee to: In the light of COVID community transmission to postpone the event till 2021 To change the idea of the awards to Greater Blue Mountains Creatives Achievement Awards (GBMCAA) of which leadership is one element To advise those who have already nominated of these changes and urge them to participate next year... To continue to develop BMCAN as a community-based multi-arts organisations able to act as a strong advocacy voice for the Greater Blue Mountains creative arts community. BMCAN would like to thank the members of our 2020 CALA Committee for all their hard work during this year on shaping the 2020 event: Julie Ankers (chair), Shane Porteous, Sean OKeeffe, Leanne Tobin, Christine Wheeler and Freedom Wilson. BMCAN will be appointing a new committee in 2021, which will work with BMCAN on shaping nominations criteria around the new focus on achievement. BMCAN is currently in the process of designing an online survey to get community feedback on this change. See more
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19.01.2022 ENVIRONMENTAL VANDALISM DRIVEN BY THE CULT OF NEO-LIBERAL ECONOMISM. WHEN WILL THEY CATCH UP TO THE PRESENT, LET ALONE DEAL WITH THE FUTURE? The conduct of the government today in parliament had nothing to do with this pandemic. It had nothing to do with measures around the welfare or the health or the long-term benefit of Australians. This was about abrogating your rights, all of you, in having a voice in this parliament and knowing that you will actually have an environment that is going to be protected.
18.01.2022 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Leadership is a hot topic - first around the summer bushfires, now around responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing the intersection between health, economics, and community. Our creative arts sector has been severely impacted. This is where leadership counts. By reading this paper and joining the forum discussion, you are helping us become an engaged community of creatives shaping our future.... Download a PDF copy of Celebrating Creative Arts Leadership in the Greater Blue Mountains to inform your say wildmountaincollective.com.au/cala2020/. Then join the forum discussion at bmcan.com.au/community.
18.01.2022 THIS IS OUR LEGACY TO OUR CHILDREN FROM PAST GOVERNMENT FAILURE ON CLIMATE POLICY Australian warming could crack more than 7 by 2100 under a scenario where greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase through the century.
17.01.2022 COVID IS A WAKE-UP ON THE COST OF THE RELENTLESS SQUEEZE OF CAREER AMBITION AND URBAN REALITY To a psychologist who specialises in natural disaster response, the coronavirus pandemic has been a worldwide simulation. It has lifted the veil on how weak all of our social, economic and political systems really are and, as a disaster researcher, I knew they were weak, she says. I think Covid is causing existential crises for a lot of people.
16.01.2022 WORRIED ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT - TAKE TIME TO READ THIS ARTICLE IN ABC ONLINE We may be on the cusp of a revolution. What if everything we thought we knew about public finance over the past 40 years has been wrong? A new economic theory has emerged that could rewrite our understanding of how governments create and spend money and what type of society we can afford to build.... And if it is correct, people may be furious. Because it could show that Australias political elite can afford to spend far more than they are on public health and education, social housing, scientific research and green energy schemes, while eliminating unemployment. And yet theyre not either from a misunderstanding of government finances or because they dont want to. See more
16.01.2022 Worth a visit I think!!
15.01.2022 This wonderful little book gives such deep and accessible understanding of the songlines knowledge system of Australia's First Nations people. I congratulate its authors, Margo Beale and Lynne Kelly and express my deepest appreciation for all their work over the years, and their efforts to share this with us.
15.01.2022 BRIDGE TO OTHERNESS - BLACKHEATH 28 NOVEMBER 4-6PM Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to explore the history and current issues surrounding the Great Western Highway. Soundwork by Jo Truman, with Q&A sessions on its impact on Indigenous people by Lex Dadd, and today's controversies by Gary Moore on the Co-Design Committee. https://events.humanitix.com/bridge-to-otherness-a-response
13.01.2022 COVID RECOVERY COMMISSION - PLEASE TAKE NOTE Wind and solar power should be a top focus, the report advised, alongside energy efficiency improvements to buildings and industries, and the modernisation of electricity grids. Creating jobs must be the priority for countries where millions have been thrown into unemployment by the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdowns. The IEAs analysis shows that targeting green jobs such as retrofitting buildings to make them more energy efficient, putting up solar panels and constructing wind farms is more effective than pouring money into the high-carbon economy.
13.01.2022 CHECK OUT THIS EVENT FOR 10 SEPTEMBER 12 NOON ONLY $5 https://mailchi.mp/earthl/aela-news-and-events-may-1696701
13.01.2022 THE POWER OF INDIGENOUS WAYS OF KNOWING Re-enchantment is within us. People are very worried about this Covid emergency, about being able to touch other people and to feel an effect, a love of affection for other people. But what really is this re-enchantment? Its the love that we feel for the rivers, for the forest, for food. We have to think that the real borders of the world, its not the borders between Brazil and the United States, or between the Amazon and the Cerrado. The real borders of the world are the borders between racism and biodiversity. We cant drop this fight. We have to keep fighting for the biodiversity, for this cure of the Earth, and for our territories, because one who has territory has a place to return, and one who has a place to return has refuge, has warmth. And thats why we need to keep fighting.
12.01.2022 WATCH CAREFULLY GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTS TO WIND BACK ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS IN THE NAME OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY If the Black Summer fires have taught us anything, it is that we must learn from Aboriginal culture about how best to live WITH fire, rather than seeing fire as our enemy. This requires deep knowledge of local ecologies and how to work with fire year round through the techniques of cultural burning as caring for country, not a fire fighting philosophy based on protec...ting property assets and human lives. Beyond the direct and immediate impacts on biodiversity of disturbance and proximity to disturbed forest, there is compelling evidence that Australias historical and contemporary logging regimes have made many Australian forests more fire prone and contributed to increased fire severity and flammability, the scientists write. This occurs because logging leaves debris at ground level that increases the fuel load in logged forests. It also changes forest composition and leaves these areas of forest both hotter and drier, they say.
10.01.2022 GAIA AND SYSTEMS UNDERSTANDINGWHY UNIVERSITIES, VICTIMS OF FORDISM, ARE THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION TO KNOWLEDGE I would love to be able to speak to Galileo to understand how he felt. We were both loners who met a lot of opposition. I think Galileos problem was largely with the church rather than people at large. It was so contrary to their dogma that they hated it. I have felt for some time that the universities are getting dangerously like the early church. They have do...zens of different sects and they are quite proud if you belong to one of them: if you are a chemist you often dont know anything about biology and so on. This is why ordinary university science is not really helpful because the department looking at seaweed would not be the same as the one looking at methyl iodide. It is a division into bits. Its time universities were revolutionised and had much more common thinking. Its amazing how much objection there is to Gaia. Im wondering to what extent you can put that down to the coal and oil industries who fought against any kind of message that would be bad for them. See more
10.01.2022 The science is clear that if we keep exploiting wildlife and destroying our ecosystems, then we can expect to see a steady stream of these diseases jumping from animals to humans in the years ahead, UNEP executive director Inger Andersen said.
09.01.2022 THE FAILURE OF BOTH BUSINESS AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP A report by the UN for the 20th anniversary of the Global Compact found that only four in 10 companies had targets that would enable them to meet the UNs sustainable development goals by the 2030 deadline, and fewer than a third thought their industry was moving fast enough. While 84% of companies participating in the UN Global Compact were taking action on the goals, fewer than half were embedding those targets into th...eir core business activities, and only 37% were designing their business models to meet the goals. The human community is completely interconnected and interdependent, Kingo said. Without solidarity, especially with those most vulnerable among us, we all lose. We are paying the price for turning a blind eye to obvious injustices in the world.
07.01.2022 DECOLONISING OUR IMAGINATION Refuse to discipline or deride local and Indigenous cosmologies. Push back on every contortion or erasure or reduction of their knowledge that seeks to make such practices legible or commensurable or rational to science. Do not appropriate Indigenous knowledges, but do the work to make yourself receptive and responsive so that you can take these knowledges seriously. Make space for other ways of knowing and storying the living world.
07.01.2022 Follow Ryan Walshs journey. Ryan is a young filmmaker friend of mine who created a video essay of our first Encountering the Wild festival at Dargan in 2018. https://www.facebook.com/VoiceOfTheBarka
07.01.2022 THE REPORT CARD IS IN The human species has gone seriously awry, lost in techno dreaming about landing on Mars, while our precious home, Plant Earth, is trashed in the name of Progress and Wealth. Go figure.
07.01.2022 RENEWABLE ENERGY QUESTIONS 1. Mining materials in vulnerable areas 2. Imagine the vast western desert landscape visible if you fly over Australia on your way to Asia and beyond, home to many Aboriginal songlines, source of inspiration for many of Australias great art worksimagine this covered in a vast sea of solar panel farms. 3. In the push for renewable energy sources, we need to question what we are using all this energy foris it to just continue to ramp up rampant, mi...ndless, consumerism, or are we using this transition to re-think the kind of economy we need to support a sustainable, healthy and socially vibrant lifestyle of community and connections instead of consumption, consumption, consumption driven by social media advertising. We found renewable energy production will exacerbate the threat mining poses to biodiversity the worlds variety of animals and plants. Its fair to assume that in some places, the extraction of renewables minerals may cause more damage to nature than the climate change it averts. Australia is well placed to become a leader in mining of renewable energy materials and drive the push to a low-carbon world. But we must act now to protect our biodiversity from being harmed in the process.
06.01.2022 This puts things in perspectivesomething that is sorely needed in these times
05.01.2022 Opening of the Timescapes Exhibition, 4 July, Lithgow
04.01.2022 A REALITY CHECK FOR THOSE SUCKED INTO CONSPIRACY THINKING How did wellness advocates - the yoga practitioners, the folk who determinedly buy organic, the religiously vegan - how did they get sucked into the spiral of AltRight conspiracy thinking? This article gives some answers... Truth-lite then conflates with what I call spiritualism-lite. Contemporary spiritualism has tended to cherry-pick the love and light feel-good bits of the various traditions, the bits that promote personal freedom and individuality, leaving out the responsibility, service and the sacrifice to the greater good.
04.01.2022 WHY AND HOW SHOULD THE ARTS BE EMBEDDED IN COMMUNITY
04.01.2022 AS A RESULT OF OUR GREED AND ARROGANCE, WE MAY BE HEADING TOWARDS A PLANET THAT IS HOSTILE TO LIFE FOR HUMANS, MOST ANIMALS AND MANY PLANTS WHAT A LEGACY! Climate sensitivity is the holy grail of climate science. It is the prime indicator of climate risk. For 40 years, it has been around 3C. Now, we are suddenly starting to see big climate models on the best supercomputers showing things could be worse than we thought. Worst-case projections in excess of 5C have been gener...ated by several of the worlds leading climate research bodies, including the UK Met Offices Hadley Centre and the EUs Community Earth System Model. The more we learn, the more fragile the Earth system seems to be and the faster we need to move, he said. It gives even stronger argument to step out of this Covid-19 crisis and move full speed towards decarbonising the economy.
03.01.2022 A quick and ready guide to the significance of epistemology when thinking about the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart.
03.01.2022 HOW COVID PANDEMIC IS A CALL FROM THE WILD TO STOP HUMANITY DESTROYING ITS OWN HOME - OUR PLANETARY ECOSYSTEM When humanity exterminates other creatures, it is sawing off the limb on which it is sitting, destroying working parts of our own life-support system, said Prof Paul Ehrlich, of Stanford University in the US, and one of the research team. The conservation of endangered species should be elevated to a global emergency for governments and institutions, equal to the climate disruption to which it is linked.
03.01.2022 FINALLY - THE COALITIONS NATURAL ALLIES AND SUPPORTERS FACE THE TRUTH Organisations including the Business Council of Australia, the Australian Industry Group, the National Farmers Federation, the Australian Aluminium Council and the ACTU said public debate about the cost of doing more to reduce emissions had too often not considered the cost of climate change to the economy, environment and society.
01.01.2022 HOW INSTITUTIONAL LEGACIES OF RACISM WORK A University of Wollongong researcher, John Corkill, has collected data on unprocessed land claims dating back to the acts beginnings in 1983. He was horrified to discover successive NSW governments have made serious errors in administering the act.... The administration of the land rights act is not fit for purpose, Corkill said. Its broken. And its broken because the government set out to break it. Im very unhappy to discover how badly betrayed not just Aboriginal people are. But non-Indigenous people who thought that this was being made right, weve been double-crossed too. On any analysis, this is deeply serious and the betrayal and the injustice is multi-layered, its fundamental and has been going on for years. I think it is institutionalised racism and I think its been the old lands department, a pillar of the white dispossession of Aboriginal people, thats been the problem. The leading native title and land claims barrister Tony McAvoy SC said the 37,000 unresolved claims were a national disgrace.
