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The good news (for some of the approximately 57,600 Greenlanders, at least): Greenland now has much more control over its destiny, following the decision from Denmark to allow self-rule for Greenlanders (see the article at the Sydney Morning Herald). The not-so-good news: the following excerpt from this, and other, articles on this event is a ...

Two quotes from Bruce Cockburn appropriate to the Christmas season (and the mood it gets me in): ''This bluegreen ball in black space Filled with beauty even now battered and abused and lovely'' from the song ''Planet of the Clowns'' on the album The Trouble With Normal (1983) This was written in the early 1980s, and there seems ...

1958 that spring, there was a terrible drought no one could stop the earth from cracking open and spilling its shrivelled guts mice jumped out of rice jars not a single grain was harvested but so as not to make the higher-ups lose hope our considerate village headman sent people out night after night first to paint the ground ...

It now seems as though someone may have seen a Baiji, and that perhaps they're not extinct after all! Read more of the good news at http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/30/2019106.htm.

Just read Tim Low's book... Low, Tim. 2003. The New Nature. Penguin Books Australia. Overall the thesis of this book seems to be that nature includes humans - whether we like it or not, we're intimately involved in ecosystems  -and therefore what humans have done and will do needs to be factored into our understanding of ...