image Connections: Brazil and Australia ‘across seven centuries in geology, flora, fauna, sea voyages, science and technology, architecture and the environment’ Gallery of Australian Design, 44 Parkes Place, Parkes, ACT 6 May – 19 June 2010 Wednesday-Sunday 10am-4pm; free admission
Posts Tagged ‘environment’
Education for Sustainable Development – from South Pacific
An important new initiative from the University of the South Pacific: image The Pacific Regional Centre of Excellence for ESD, the University of the South Pacific through its School of Education has produced a 3-volume book series devoted to Education for Sustainable Development. The books are an outcome of a School of Education initiative under [...]
Paul Carter ‘Dry Thinking and Human Futures’
image image An opportunity to hear one of Australia’s leading thinkers reflect on the philosophical challenges of living in a recalcitrant environment: Australia’s natural water body is, as it were, too humid to be relied upon. It spreads out and refuses to solidise. It collects in billabongs and necklaces of ponds that do not communicate [...]
Papers for Southern Connection Congress
Information about papers for the upcoming VI Southern Connection Congress have been released. The conference will be held in Bariloche, Argentina form 15-19 February 2010. Confirmed speakers include: William Bond, University of Cape Town, South Africa “Reinterpreting plant traits and the geography of vegetation with fire” Richard Hobbs, School of Environmental Science, Murdoch University, Australia [...]
