Round our way there always used to be knocks on the door from folk selling pegs, and there was always laundry that needed putting out on the line, and inevitably, bringing in when it rained. Maybe those were simpler times, but if you dry your laundry outside, you have a keener sense of the weather.…

Progress on tackling Climate Change and reaching broader sustainability goals continues to be inadequate. In order to get a grip of this problem, data and its use in tracking our progress (or lack of) will be vital. Several technology and service providers are emerging with useful tools for tracking our climate and sustainability efforts. Liberals…

In a previous article I was scathing about this government’s approach to education – a regressive insistence on churning out compliant automatons while employers demand creative, self-directed and specialised workers. But in their approach is a logic – that learners all need to be calibrated to a common criteria. This plays out in a national curriculum –…