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Monday 22 Mar 2010

First hour: Odd socks with Robert Rosen. 

• Electricity pricing info from IPART: http://www.ipart.nsw.gov.au/

Interview with Anthony Hoy on his media career - past, present and future  

Monday 15 Mar 2010

Interview with Liane Simons and Rosie re Transition Towns.

Monday 8 Mar 2010

"Railway Wonderland" - Interview with NORPA's Artistic Director Julian Louis, and Marissa Snow Creative Producer. Call for submissions - see http://www.norpa.org.au/page/Generator

Cathy Henkel - Working towards her PhD with report "Imaging the Future 2". The report documents the economic contribution of the creative industries, particularly the film industry, to the economy of the Northern Rivers. Contact via www.virgoproductions.com.au

Monday 1 Mar 2010

Monday 22 Feb 2010

Monday 15 Feb 2010

Interview with Festival Director of the Byron Bay Film,  J'aimee Skippon-Volke www.bbff.com.au. 

http://www.burzynskimovie.com
http://www.sydneyfilmfestival.org/Festival/Films/FilmDetails.aspx?id=35  and http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2009/s2598994.htm
http://dustandillusions.com/about

Interview with Dr Mark Byrne, Education Officer from the Environmental Defender's Office www.edo.org.au 

UN website of pledges: www.unep.org/climatepledges/

The Guardian  www.guardian.co.uk/environment/copenhagen

Monday 8 Feb 2010

Looked at the misreporting of the Land & Environment Court Case of Byron Shire Council v John Vaughan regarding his sea wall.

.... links to various press reports to come

Monday 1 Feb 2010

Interview with Meegan Jones, author of Sustainable Event Management. www.sustainableeventguide.com  For discounted copies see www.newsouthbooks.com.au/isbn/9781844077397specd.htm

Interview with local environmental scientist Mat Morris who has worked to make many local and further afield events sustainable. 

Weasel Word: Mission Statement.  Need one in a hurry?  Try one of the automatic ones here or try this corporate gibberish generator

Monday 25 Jan 2010

Interview with Jason Wilson, lecturer in Digital Communication at University of Wollongong. Part 1 was on what Google is doing in China, and the access the Chinese have to the internet. In Part 2 we discussed the Australian govt's proposed legislation to allegedly protect children though censoring sites, and its wider implications. Jason has published several articles on New Matilda

Monday 18 Jan 2010

Sea Shepherd, see www.shepherd.org.au.  Interview with local organisers of fund raiser in Byron Libby Caski and Howie Cook. Since the sinking of the Ady Gil, Sea Shepherd has been more in the news. Pointed out that butric acid is another name for rancid butter.

Weasel Word "practical" when used in certain settings - my emphasis in the following passages

Quote 1. Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Tony Burke

“This is another practical Rudd Government measure to help growers take advantages of new market opportunities,” Mr Burke said.

From http://www.maff.gov.au/media/media_releases/2009/february/rudd_government_continues_to_help_wheat_growers_adjust_to_new_system 

Quote 2. Sarah Palin, former Vice President hopeful

“While I and all Alaskans witness the impacts of changes in weather patterns firsthand, I have repeatedly said that we can’t primarily blame man’s activities for those changes,” she wrote. “And while I did look for practical responses to those changes, what I didn’t do was hamstring Alaska’s job creators with burdensome regulations so that I could act ‘greener than thou’ when talking to reporters.”

Inspired from www.unspeak.net

Quote 3. Tony Abbot, leader of the Australian Liberals

"As a local MP, I instinctively resolved never to be outdone as a practical environmentalist."

From http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/full-text-of-tony-abbotts-address-to-the-sydney-institute/story-e6frgczf-1225819327681

Played snippets from this presentation: Richard Baraniuk is a Rice University professor with a giant vision: to create a free, global online education system. In this presentation, he introduces Connexions, the open-access publishing system that's changing the landscape of education by providing free coursework and educational materials to everyone in the world.

http://blog.ted.com/2006/08/richard_baraniu.php

Monday 11 Jan 2010

90 Second Spin - impromptu speaking.

Holiday snippets, Byron art Show.

Weasel Word: Enhanced - taken from Interview on  ABC TV program "The 7:30 Report"  http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s2786882.htm

JILL LEWIS, AUSTRALIAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATION: We need all modes of transport to come together so that we can have a freight strategy that takes us into the future that will deliver safety and certainly enhance our productivity because that's what Australia needs.

Monday 4 Jan  2010 - Presented by Charlie Staratt

Monday 28 Dec

90 Second Spin - impromptu speaking. 

Looked at the parallels between pro-smoking lobby a few decades ago and current climate change deniers. I quoted from report "Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science" see http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/exxon_report.pdf  

Weasel Word: Believe  - as in "I believe that nicotine is not addictive." - Big Tobacco CEO. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JkcHW_w114

Monday 21 Dec

90 Second Spin - impromptu speaking. 

Weasel Word: Basil Cameron

Monday 14 Dec

Interview Gina Baker and Anna re Crackers & Jam, a celebration of mental health

Interview with Mitra Ardon on sustainability projects. Mentioned Green Drinks. 

Monday 7 Dec

Comments from the audience at Steve Biddulph's talk Raising Boys in Mullumbimby

Interview with Robyn Francis, permaculture specialist

Monday 30 Nov

Interview with family psychologist Steve Biddulph

Played parts of TED Talk by Clay Shirky: How Social Media Can Make History http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html    Heaps of good stuff on this website!

Monday 23 Nov

Interview with David Bradbury on his new documentary My Asian Heart

Interview with Tristan Banks, author of children's books 

Monday 16 Nov 

Interview with Paul Spooner, CEO Byron Community Centre, on volunteering

Interview with Sandra Eaton, on CCTV 

Monday 9 Nov 

Interview: Jenni Caffin, Director of the Northern Rvers Writers Centre, on Kindle, electronic book readers

Brief: Robert Rosen on Byron Shire Council's Coastal workshop

Book Review: The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, by Thomas Homer-Dixon
 

Monday 2 Nov

Book Review: The Power of Sustainable Thinking: How to create a positive future for the climate, the planet, your organization and your life,  by Bob Doppelt.