Eradicating Ecocide – Polly Higgins

Polly Higgins is a barrister, international lawyer and award winning author of Eradicating Ecocide. Book number 2, Earth is our Business, was published in May 2012. Her proposal to the United Nations for Ecocide to be made an international law has taken her across the world. Her wish is for all Ecocides to end by 2020.  Find out more about WISH20.

Wild Law – Cormac Cullinan

Cormac Cullinan has practised, taught and written about environmental law and policy since 1992. He says that there is a fundamentally misconceived belief that humans are separate from and superior to nature, and that the single and most important thing to consider for our survival is how to re-think our understanding of law and governance…

AUSMEPA makes life easier for school teachers who teach curriculum subjects about the marine environment. AUSMEPA provides FREE educational resources on its website to help teachers plan and undertake a unit of work about key marine environmental issues, including climate change and stormwater pollution. To find out more about AUSMEPA’s FREE website units of workclick…

Oceanic Sydney

Living Data invites you to our biggest presentation yet and it’s FREE! Oceanic Sydney:   Sunday 14th October at Customs House, Sydney:  From 8-9 pm. Immerse yourself in scientific data within a curious inversion of terrestrial and marine environments: Watch out for giant krill and Neptune’s necklace. What’s happening in the oceans?

Tom Griffiths – Ice Core Warnings :TEDxSydney

Tom Griffiths is the W K Hancock Professor of History at the Australian National University and has written a history of Antarctica entitled Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica. In January this year he joined the centennial voyage to Mawson’s huts in Antarctica. Tom’s books and essays have won prizes in literature, history, science, politics…

Forests of the Sea

Lynchpin hosts Lewa Pert’s film Forests of the Sea, featuring the work of Dutch artist, Malou Zuidema, for the Hobart City Council’s Urban Box Project.  Lewa’s Giant Kelp Honours research at IMAS during 2011 underpins her film of this Community Arts Project as a way of drawing attention to the ecological significance of, and changes to, the…

SPECTRA

spectra | symposium of art and science The Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) is hosting the imaging symposium SPECTRA 2012 in Canberra, Australia, 2-6 October 2012. Contemporary visualising and optical technologies and techniques for analysis, data management and imaging have radically changed the nature of art and science practices and the status of images in both fields.…

Oceanic Living Data: installation/ performance

Art & About Sydney presents the Oceanic Living Data installation/ performance that resulted from collaborations between animator Lisa Roberts (Visiting Fellow, Design and Environmental Science, UTS), performance artists Caterina Mocciola and Ashley Macqueen, Lawrence Wallen (Head of Design, UTS) and Martina Doblin (Senior Research Fellow, Climate Change Cluster, Faculty of Environmental Science, UTS). Performance: Customs…

NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record

The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000. Intuitive imaging of data – see  the example NASA 131year global temperature record.

The large collaborative project begun in 2012 between Matthew Dewey, composer,  and PhD candidates Nick Roden and Rob Johnston, will continue in 2013.  To read about the project please go to Current Scholars and scroll down the page to 2012 Project 2.  This is an extensive creative venture in sound and image and no new scholarships will be awarded…