There’s a longevity study now released: “The Longevity Project” by Professors Lesley Martin and Howard Friedman.

Its findings are surprising but they are easy for us to do right here read more

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock]Doomsday Clock[/url]

The recent adjustment to the Doomsday Clock taking it to 5 minutes to midnight is because of:
Lack of global political action read more

Fundamentalism is an extreme form of hubris—overconfidence not only in one’s beliefs but in the ability of humans to understand complex questions definitively.

There is something to be said for [url=http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/01/technological-fundamentalism/]avoiding read more

From a received email:

It seems to me that most discussions about human/global problems take a scientific approach; ie focus on the facts of the situations and the reasons and causes for them. I believe read more

When: Wednesday 28th July 7pm for 7:30pm start
Where: SOWN Environment Centre 98 Yoorala St The Gap (down driveway to park)
Join Transition The Gap to imagine waking up in the year 2030.
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“New Windows onto New Worlds” by Richard Hames

Hypothesis:

Set against the rich tapestry of mankind’s evolution on this planet our current era seems increasingly to be characterised (at read more

Just watched Q&A on ABC TV. They were talking about climate change and while there was almost complete agreement it is coming at us fast (1 in 1000 year weather events happening all the time now) read more

No – it is next Wednesday the 28th. There was some confusion – the date changed to a week later but it went in the What’s On calendar for both dates.

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeXdv-uPaw]She’s alive..beautiful..hurting..worth dying for[/url]

When we live local our focus is primarily on the details.

We were given the full set of The West Wing videos about life in the White House. Boy they seem to be living at a million miles an hour making read more