I finished my last post on the possibilities for carbon farming with this comment: Mind you, there is a teensy, weensy little problem. We might halve our carbon emissions, but no one actually knows how to measure all his within conventional...

Earlier in the week and feeling the need for a break from the environment and other current concerns, I grabbed a new book off the shelf for my train reading. This was another of those almost random choices, a selection from books once owned by my...

Back in March 2008 I ran two posts: How to find and use Australian census data 1 - Languages spoken at home case study How to find and use Australian census data 2 - Creating maps and other nice things I am running this post just in case Maximos has...

In his report, Professor Garnaut made the point that in passing that there was no point in setting targets if they were not achievable. Yesterday evening as I was driving home there was a story that illustrated this. The story was on wind power. The...

I will not have time for a full post today, so instead I thought that I would make a brief comment on the importance of numbers and especially use of back of envelope calculations to check things. Starting from the premise that we do in fact need to...