Dumbo Feather

One of my first memories is of the night when my parents woke me and my brother up to watch the moon landing. I remember the air of ceremony as we were ushered into the living room, my mother’s expression seeming to say, “Behold the marvellous world

James Stockdale was a United States vice admiral who was held captive for seven years through the Vietnam War. During this period, Stockdale was repeatedly tortured and given no reason to believe he would make it out alive. Yet, despite the grim real

When the smoke arrived along the Birrarung Yarra River, so did the beginnings of Regen Melbourne. In the final days of 2019, Melbourne was confronted with the devastating impacts of climate change in the form of thick smoke that blanketed our city –

As an Iñupiaq woman from Alaska, I am part of a community who have thrived in one of the harshest climates on the planet for tens of thousands of years. My siblings and I grew up in a subsistence economy. For us, this meant a diet mainly from the oce

Systems thinking is a way of conceptualising and understanding how various elements of a system are related to and influence one another. That system could be an ecosystem, a company, a school, a family or something more expansive – like the global s

If this conversation melts your brain because of the complexity of it, then I advise READ IT SLOWER. Daniel Schmachtenberger is one of the great minds thinking about the big problems on this planet right now, with a particular focus on existential th

There’s so much to love about Veena Sahajwalla. Her giant science brain. Her hoarding, “What can I do with this?” spirit. Her excitement for transforming waste (or what she calls “resources”) into functional, re-usable products. Growing up in Mumbai,

The thing I appreciate most about talking to Elizabeth Sawin is how long she takes to answer a question. At least three times during our chat, we sit in silence for sometimes more than a minute. She sits in the morning sun in Vermont, amid the rural

Located in Seattle, the Bullitt Center was one of the first energy-positive green buildings. The building collects and treats rainwater for its showers, sinks and drinking taps, with greywater re-used on the green roof and in landscaping. There is al

It would be easy to think you know who Peter Garrett is. As frontman of Midnight Oil, he is sometimes painted as a cartoonish firebrand. A loudmouth rocker singing hit songs about issues that nobody else had put to music — Aboriginal land rights, our

Every so often, someone says something that you know is going to stay with you for life. My first conversation with Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin was like that. He said, just as an aside to some bigger point, “Well, we’re all indigenous to the earth”.

An old man going a lone highway, Came, at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm vast and deep and wide. Through which was flowing a sullen tide The old man crossed in the twilight dim, The sullen stream had no fear for him; But he turned when safe on