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Respecting Our Planet On The Wide-Open Road
I have been quiet on the blog recently because I was finishing my thesis and have now submitted it! Wish me luck. We then took a family road trip, which included me attending two children’s writing events. We traversed across lots of wonderful places in Victoria and NSW, including Melbourne, Bega, Tathra, Canberra, Jindabyne, Lakes…
Read MoreFlourishing in the Face of Climate-Grief and Eco-Anxiety
How do you hold onto hope when everything seems hopeless? How do you enjoy daily life when it all feels pointless? These kinds of feelings are things I have experienced before, as someone who has had depression a number of times. And I am feeling them now, but not due to depression. We are now…
Read MoreWhy We Need Arya Stark and Greta Thunberg
**CAUTION GAME OF THRONES SPOILERS AHEAD ** CAUTION WORLD CATASTROPHE SPOILERS AHEAD If you are a Game of Thrones person (like me), then you will be in the same place this week as I am, as are countless millions around the globe. If you are not, then I apologise in advance, but just think about…
Read MoreWhy Striking For Climate Change is Not About Wagging School
Dear people saying kids are ‘wagging school’ today to #strikeforclimate, They are not striking to ‘get a day off’ and they shouldn’t have to raise these issues ‘after hours’. The point of a strike is to use the power of your labour to raise an important issue. The point is to make people listen, to create…
Read MorePlanet Talks WOMADelaide 2019: All the Fishes in the Sea
Dr Jodie Rummer, one of the line-up at the fabulous Planet Talks in 2019 at WOMADelaide, is an Associate Professor at the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University. She has had had six consecutive years of competitive ARC fellowships. Jodie also received the highly prestigious UNESCO –…
Read More7 Ways You Can Help Our Planet
Living on our beautiful planet is so complicated. Our clever human brains have created so many amazing things, but the consumer-based society we have created, means that our lifestyle (and our greed) is destroying our home. People are starting to wake-up to this though, and we are excitingly seeing the next generation standing up and…
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