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CWWA submission on the Western Sustainable Water Strategy
This is a bit of a rehash of a LinkedIn post but this is an important piece of thinking for outline some detail on how we might approach the Living Entity thinking so well worth a repost. Here is the Coastal Waterways and Wetlands Alliance submission on the Western...
Birrarung flows review
When I started as Yarra Riverkeeper I was ignorant of flows, envionmental flows, and 'diversion was an entertainment an 'consumptive' was something to with TB. It was a steep and exciting learning curve. The Yarra Environmental Water Plan, says in 2018 that the...
Concerned Waterways Alliance – five years and many submissions later
I have collected here recent submissions from the Concerned Waterways Alliance, in celebration of the five year mark for the Alliance. During those five years the Alliance has grown in knowledge and understanding about the success and failings of water policy here in...
Response by the TWN to the Birrarung Council’s second report to Parliament
I am thrilled, nay delighted, to be uploading. This has been a longer haul than seemed necessary since we first mooted with the Yarra Riverkeepers that they follow on from their response to the first report, and then took it on ourselves from our own slim resources....
Interview with Anthony Despotellis Polystyrene (convenor/interviewer: errors all mine)
Here is a distillation of an interview with Anthony Despotellis, the Yarra Riverkeeper polystyrene officer. The interview was conducted just before he headed overseas. Sources and solutions I first came on borard in March 2020 when I designed Nikki’s report...
wetland plants – more underground than above
In the patch of land I have behind a village on Western Port I am creating an ephemeral wetland, the most biodiverse of wetlands.
Sea elephants demise on King Island
I wrote this piece awhile ago and it seemed timely to give it another airing. Sea elephants are beyond ordinary. They are something else! Sea elephants spend the most of their life (90%) underwater and, while clumsy on land, their blubber helps them resist pressures...
Shack at the end of a dirt track
I am absolutely privileged to have a humble shack at the end of a dirt track on an island in Bass Strait. The island is a naturally contained natural ecosystem with inputs and outputs, and it is a social ecosystem or series of ecosystems with flows in and out. The...
Purposes of The Waterways Network (TWN)
Purposes of The Waterways Network (TWN) Yarra/Birrarung river Purposes Here are the purposes of The Waterways Network from our articles of association. I like them. Well, I wrote them with the excellent help of Christopher Bamford, one of the great editors. We put a...
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