Feb 6 2012 – keynote address to APNEC: “Deep Ecology & The Conservation of Nature” now posted to youtube.
Nov 22 Council of All Beings to-day, my last event in Taiwan.. Yesterday keynote address to APNEC: “Deep Ecology & The Conservation of Nature”. Earlier, an Ecopsychology and Eco-Spirituality panel and before that Ecophilosophy and Council of All Beings at Providence University. Also delivered some money I raised for the aboriginal communities I met last time I was here, to stop the dams that threaten their lands and way of life.
October 30 uploaded a bunch of my music
August 23 great action for the Amazon in Canberra yesterday, part of a worldwide day of protest to stop the Belo Monte Dam.
July 2 UWS publishes “SOCIAL ECOLOGY” including my chapter “The Religion of Economics“
May 8 Deep Ecology Mandarin website
April 17 2011 Ecology or Extinction? Raise your voice! Nothing short of a revolution in consciousness can now prevent the demise of the Cenozoic Era and all of complex life. Is it really that bad? Find out. Check out Chris Hedges, “This Time We’re Taking the Whole Planet With Us” Derrick Jensen, “Beyond Hope” Clive Hamilton, “Requiem for a Species” John Greer “The Long Descent” and Reg Morrison “Plague Species“. What to do? I reckon its time to get annoyed, I’m organising a series of “Climate Change, Despair and Empowerment” workshops around Australia and see who else is feeling annoyed. And you?
March 31 2011 Deep Ecology tour of Taiwan, photo essay
March 21 Sydney action against the Borneo timber Mafia photos
February 28 Writing an article about my great few days with kick-ass activists at the Southern Forests Convergence in Tassie.
January 25 Played music with my son Bodhi at the most excellent Rainbow Serpent festival. Also gave some deep ecology talks and workshops and sang the World Bank song. Loaded some of my music to Reverbnation. A friend made a slideshow to ”Word to the Mother”. Getting ready for gigs in Tasmania next month and Taiwan in April.
August 24 2010: Great news: following the 3000 emails which you sent to environment minister Jairam Ramesh, news is in to-day that Vedanta’s controversial bauxite mine on Dongria Kondh tribal land at Niyamgiri in India has been stopped. You can see the story in The Guardian or the Ministry of Environment and Forests decision itself on the ministry website. Furthermore, Ramesh has been quoted as saying that Vedanta had committed ” very serious violations of environment act and forest right act,” and that his department was looking at taking punitive action against the company. The news sent Vedanta shares down 6%.
For more on this issue, see the amazing 10-minute film: “Mine: Story of a Sacred Mountain“ or this great 5 minute clip and a couple of recent articles one by Arundhati Roy
A great new painting for Arunachala (the sacred mountain we’ve been reforesting for 20 years) .
First music gig in 20 years with my son Bodhi.
Draft chapter ”The Religion of Economics” for”Handbook of Social Ecology”.
Indian Journal of Ecocriticism interview with Swarna
3rd exhibition of “The Two of Us” – my sculptures along with paintings by my mother Judy Cassab, Canberra July 31
Recent interview on ABC Radio National “The Spirit of Things” – transcript
Have you been wondering what the “Maoist insurgency” in India is about. Great article by Arundhati Roy and interview by Tehelka.