The Conversation invites academics across the UK and Ireland to write a poem inspired by climate change research.
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Questions of belonging inform a new collection of lyrical, meditative essays that interrogate the distinction between nature and culture.
Thoreau thought commerce destroyed moral freedom. A true “economy”, he argued, would lead to ecological and social flourishing for humans and for all beings.
John Woinarksi’s copy of this 1935 classic of environmental writing is older than him, mostly broken, much read and priceless.
Children need to connect with Australia’s bountiful variety of trees. New picture books are helping them to do so.
Almost a century ago, New Zealand and Australia were at the forefront of an environmental crisis that forewarned of humanity’s global impact – erosion. It left its mark on culture.
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Professor of Creative Writing, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer in English, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Professor in environmental psychology, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne