Last month Go Greener blogged about the GetUp’s campaign to convince ANZ to pull out of financing Gunns’ pulp mill in the Tamar Valley, north of Launceston, Tasmania. Gunns do most of the logging of old growth forests in Tasmania, but until recently I didn’t know that Gunns also logs in WA forests. Gunns’ [...]
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Is that good wood?
Posted in advertising, greenwash, tagged forest, Greenpeace, jarrah, trees, Western Australia on 26 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
Why a Diamond is Forever
Posted in Consumption, advertising, books, tagged Garden, marri, trees, tuart on 17 October 2007 | 3 Comments »
The ads told her it was. The ads said that you should buy make-up, and colour your hair, and drink Coke so that you will be the sort of attractive that men can’t resist
– Alyssa Brugman, Solo (Allen & Unwin, 2007)
As well as Alyssa Brugman’s amazing (if harrowing) work [1], I’ve been reading The Empire [...]
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"We must head back towards zero. At one degree the genie is out of the bottle, at two degrees the bottle is broken"
– David Spratt (2009) "Time for a Plan B on climate?" Dissent, no.30, p.37
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I'm a librarian doing research, but my first love was science and as a kid I wanted to be an ecologist or botanist. Things got in the way and now I only "study" nature in my spare time. As the lazyst environmentalyst I write about what I do to try to ensure the nature of our world is still here for future generations.
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