Habitat Australia articles from December 1999

Habitat Australia archives from December 1999

campaign TRAILS.
December 1, 1999... Make your concern about rivers crystal clear Unsustainable use of Australia's rivers, in particular damming, pollution and salinity, is steering us toward a crisis. ACF is appealing to you to support our critical campaign to see...

green views.
December 1, 1999... Wind farms Bruce Campbell of Pipalyatjara in the Northern Territory has a cautionary note about wind farms. Your special supplement [October] on green energy was great. The section on wind power, however, was a bit one-sided and...

The 21st century barbeque.
December 1, 1999... Whatever happens in the coming century I believe we will always be Earth dependent. We often hear that society is on the verge of an entirely new and exciting era, a brand new digital world, where the dazzling technologies of gene...

A changing land-use ethic: the inheritance and the legacy.
December 1, 1999... As the seventh of nine children, my grandfather Ted Bates had no chance of inheriting the farm he loved so much. He left Lincolnshire, England, in 1901 and migrated to Australia where he met and married Lily Phillips, who had grown up on the...

IF YOU COULD WISH ANYTHING ...
December 1, 1999... The end of a century, and the beginning of a new one, is as good a time as any to take stock and contemplate your wildest dreams. Habitat went on a quest to discover the great hopes of a range of Australians, posing the question `If you could...

FUTURE PATHS: ACTING GLOBALLY, THINKING LOCALLY.
December 1, 1999... Nobody can predict the future. But more than ever we have to be future-aware, and a theme that will increasingly occupy our consciousness in the next century will be the environment, from our street to the other side of the globe. Michael...

VOICES IN THE LAND.
December 1, 1999... THE AUSTRALIAN ENVIRONMENT MOVEMENT SPEAKS, SHOUTS AND SINGS During the last half of this century, Australians' interest in the environment has evolved from a locally focused concern for and love of our place to a dynamic movement for...

Wartime in the bush.
December 1, 1999... Members of ACF were recently invited to write in with stories that celebrate their experiences of the Australian environment. Throughout this issue you will find a sample of these stories, which provide an insight into the motivations and...

THE 20TH CENTURY: Should we take it or leave it?
December 1, 1999... TAKE IT Travelling in packs The end of this century, many say, is the era of the individual. Belying this, however, is the number of people continuing to find value and enjoyment working together for a common goal. In a recent...

`Hey, I'm not a greenie.'.
December 1, 1999... How often have we heard that phrase? The Macquarie dictionary informs us that a greenie is one sympathetic with moves to conserve the environment; a conservationist. The word conservation, as we know and understand it, means in One sense to...

How big is your backpack?
December 1, 1999... NINETIES WISDOM tells us that life is a journey, right? So just what sort of baggage are you taking with you on your merry trail, climbing metaphorical mountains, fording symbolic streams? Let's take a look at who you are according to how...

The salt.
December 1, 1999... Each day, I walk halfway down this road and then turn in to the house. In one direction, the road trundles inland and soon peters out to dirt. In the other, it goes straight to the sea and stops abruptly. Each day, I see the shimmering...

In just my time.
December 1, 1999... Where as a child I found orchids in the sugar gum scrub, there are now only struggling trees, bare ground and fallen logs. Gone are the native shrubs, yakkas, spider orchids. All the understorey. The habitat is destroyed. The robin red...

Life in the trees.
December 1, 1999... My own passionate love of the bush and the environment comes partly from the fact that I did not go to school until I was eleven years old and our garden was my whole world. Being a tomboy I lived a lot of my time in the trees, and when I went...

Northern inspirations.
December 1, 1999... I first met Habitat in a doctor's surgery. Captured by its panoramic images I vowed to subscribe `when I grow up'. Indeed joining ACF was one of the first things I did after graduation. But I had no idea that day how vital a thread both the...

Evolution of a greenie.
December 1, 1999... My love of nature was with me from the start but, species-like, I evolved as a greenie. My earliest recollections are from the 1950s when the broadcasts of Crosbie Morrison would inform and enchant me. As my family and I returned on Sunday...

Woodchip postcards.
December 1, 1999... The Western Australian port of Bunbury, where I was born, is probably the only city in the world to have proudly featured the local woodchip pile on its postcards. The enormous open-air dump of karri and marri chips, produced by clearfelling...

VISIONS OF AUSTRALIA: A 2050 ENVIRONMENT.
December 1, 1999... Fifty years is not a long time for the `environment'. But it's just long enough to put present-day obstacles and hindrances to one side, and imagine the ideal Australian society, landscape and relationships with our country. In the following...