When it comes to isolation and being alone, Jon Muir could be referred as something of an expert.  The current lockdown and the associated limitations on gathering in groups is…

The upside of the downside that is the coronavirus,  is that nature is getting some relief from human actions that have for decades had detrimental impacts on air and water…

As the discussion about the COVID-19 pandemic profiles the human impact and loss of life, there is another conversation that needs to be had according to leading ecologists who study…

Easter has traditionally been a time of reflection, contemplation and celebration.  There has been a shift in focus over the last few decades from one centred on religious tradition to…

Essays on the relationship between humans and nature "I have lately been thinking," says Strachan Donnelly, "about our world and its evolutionary life as one vast, temporally deep frog pond, serving…

In March 2020 the Warners Bay Sustainable Neighbourhood Group issued an invitation to see a film about reintroducing children to nature. NaturePlay: Take Childhood Back, featured the ideas and research…

The place you feel most at home isn't always the place you call home.   It’s an interesting thought.  We talk about our houses as being our homes and yet…

How to get from here in these troubled times to there where we need to be in ten years if we start now Well-being of people and communities. Community self-determination.-…

These words sound good: profit from perennial grass, year round protection for native species and robust ecology.  Better, when practised as they are at Wooleen Station in the Murchison area…

The false narratives we've been told that become embedded as social norms, require determination and resolve to change. The narrative that places indigenous ways of knowing outside the dominant culture…