by Andrew Kelly | Sep 23, 2024 | Articles, Submissions
Pleased, nay thrilled, to be uploading our review One of the strengths of the Birrarung Act is accountability. Too often with environmental issues, they are overlooked, ignored or swept under the doormat. With public reporting, at least we know what is happening. The...
by Andrew Kelly | Sep 6, 2024 | Articles
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...
by Andrew Kelly | Jul 9, 2024 | Articles
In the patch of land I have behind a village on Western Port I am creating an ephemeral wetland, the most biodiverse of wetlands. Well trying to, and it has been such a treat to try. Ecological experiments Like everything I do on this plot, my wetland is an ecological...
by Andrew Kelly | Jul 3, 2024 | Articles
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...
by Andrew Kelly | Jun 4, 2024 | Articles
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...
by Andrew Kelly | Jun 4, 2024 | Articles
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...
