This is an absolutely phenomenal talk by Benjamin Zander on TED entitled ‘Classical music with shining eyes’ but it is about so much more than classical music. Go ahead and watch it now, it is 18 minutes that will pay for itself many times over.
I see a striking parallel between the situation of classical music […]

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There are plenty of online petitions going around these days, sometimes it feels like every joker with a laptop is knocking on your virtual door and asking you to make a difference. *cough*
It has never been easier for people to act together online so the number of campaigns are proliferating but a lot of them […]

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After even a cursory examination of peak oil and climate change one thing becomes very obvious - a lot of change is coming whether we like it or not and a lot of change is required to minimize the pain of the transition.
Change is happening in our society but it is painfully slow - our […]

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This manifesto from www.changethis.com had some absolute gems of insight - it’s been a long time since I have read something with interesting ideas so densely packed together. The general thrust is that learning should be a lifelong pursuit and our schools should teach us how, not what, to learn.
Most classes, curricula, and schools are […]

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Yesterday was World Environment Day and 200 people froze in New Zealand’s capital of Wellington to show support for the campaign to stop climate change.
When was the last time you stopped to think about the environment?

Everyone I’ve spoken to had heaps of fun and the looks on the faces of the people walking by was […]

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If you start to look closely at the state of this planet it quickly becomes obvious that the course our society is steering is heading towards a very rough landing. The world is rife with poverty, disease, misery and violence. The rich countries grew rich by exploiting whatever and whomever they could. Our environmental record […]

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The EECA Biofuels conference have gone and put summaries from their talks online at http://futurefuels.co.nz/Home/. Definitely worth checking out if you’re like me and hanging out for the day electric cars finally hit the market.

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Found a great new website today called the Encyclopedia of Life which has set the ambitious goal to catalogue all life on the planet. They have just released the first version of the portal and it will be an awesome resource which will be a great enabler for future generations of scientists.
The beautiful film which […]

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