on environmental footprints
From Sam Hofmann’s blog: Politics aside – the questions for me was and still is : ‘How do cultures modify landscapes’ ; ‘How do we recognise ourselves in an increasingly globalised world?’ ; ‘ What is the ‘real’ Australia? . Quite a large question , but my increasing interest in Permaculture and the concept of […]
Homo sapiens has always been walking. What made the specie successful was the capability of getting to know the environment around, learn possibilities and adapt. Did we lost this skills? Nowadays we don’t adapt anymore, we alter to our needs, destroying the world in the process. Are we serious about preserving the world as we […]
well well, one step at the time
Pic of Ally by Alex So, it happened, after 11 years of conservative government, which took Australia through an array of incredible obscenities: 1996 March 2: John Howard defeats Paul Keating to become prime minister, ending a record 13 years of Coalition opposition. 1997 May: Resists public pressure to apologise to Indigenous Australians over the […]
on plants classification
Last week as part of the Philosopher’s Zone program on ABC radio, Alan Saunders interviewed Sverker Sörlin, Professor of Environmental History at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. The subject of the interview was Carl von Linné, better known now by his latin name Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist who invented the modern system of botanical […]
Weed gathering: ethnobotanical practices in a cosmopolitan society
You gave a talk at the 2007 UTS CONFERENCE ON COSMOPOLITAN CIVIL SOCIETIES at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. The Conference preamble: What does cosmopolitanism mean in an age where globalisation is accompanied by the War on Terror and where unprecedented levels of international migration are accompanied by attacks on multiculturalism and heightened ‘border […]
on talking about it
There is a conference coming up at the University of Technology, Sydney, and you will preesent a paper about this weedyconnection project. UTS CONFERENCE ON COSMOPOLITAN CIVIL SOCIETIES 4 + 5 OCT What does cosmopolitanism mean in an age where globalisation is accompanied by the War on Terror and where unprecedented levels of international migration […]
On PHOTO-SYNTHESIS and the ephemeral art of nature
Ana Wojak is completing a residency at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Sydney, a year-long immersion in the oldest garden of Australia. See here the online journal. The historic and cultural implications of the site are enormous and Ana is remarkably taking them all in, from the aspect of the botanical floodgate which opened the […]
On the Rain which is meant to be coming down
August, according to imported and adapted traditional knowledge from the other side of the world, it should be raining, the whole month. You used the centuries old saying of the Marking Days, (i di’ ‘d marca in Piedmonteese) trying export it onto Australian land, southern hemisphere, couldn’t get any further away from the original land/people […]
On I don’t know about this IT businness, Thinking of going back to YOU
Blogging does something to your arguments, it gives you a platform unadulterated by difficult questions without the time to research the answers. Somewhat blogging strengthens your topic by allowing a slow unfolding of ideas. This is definitely true of the weedyconnection project and , in this case, blog. The slow unfolding of concepts allowed me […]
On the Rain Coming, Gardens of Mother-of-Millions and week-end’s readings
The rain is here -according to age old peasant knowledge from the other side of the world- should stay for a few more days, at least untill saturday the 14th, when the moon cicle will start again. This is if the imported knowledge is any use, or rightly interpreted. In the mean-time a visit to […]
