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A Town like ByronThis edition of Epoch Future is about estuaries. One in particular- Belongil at Byron Bay. There is much to tell specifically but this Epoch Future 7 is, in another way, a story repeated with different players in many other regions. At Byron, its Residents Group and others, including Indigenous allies demonstrate an articulate and inspiring local resistance.
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Disability AccessibilityIn this Issue of Epochfuture 6 we focus on the issue of ‘Disability Accessibility’ from the perspective of practical hope. We believe that in any forward looking society that seeks to offer all its citizens practical hope DA needs to be both a major policy and practical focus.
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The Art of Practical New Zealand EnvironmentalismAKA Letters to my brother
The series of articles are personal. Letters to My Brother refers to me. Yet it is, along with its familial handle, Catherine Smith's very well-informed, road tested, experienced and committed account of practical hope. Hope here is conjured in the New Zealand and Antarctic environment, settler and Maori communities, in governments and in pressure on them, in families and churches. This is an artistic, hopeful and thoughtful reflection on a life-time's practical engagement by Catherine. It is local but much more.
Articles written by Catherine Smith and Jim Prentice
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TranshumanismTranshumanism (TH) is the movement to use technology (mainly in the areas of life sciences, alternative energies, and computer science) to challenge biological limitations and eventually find solutions to such limitations.
It is often linked with the idea that science and technology can be used to continually improve the human condition. Examples of TH include artificial intelligence, cryogenics, space colonization, cloning, medical implants, cyborgs, cognitive enhancement, life extension, defect elimination (form of eugenics) and so on. With its current momentum, TH will directly impact your grandchildren before 2030. We need to intelligently explore and critically assess a wide range of issues directly and indirectly related to TH.
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Brisbane's radical movements in the 1960s & 1970sThe Radical Movement had many undercurrents from Indigenous strikes to Martin Luther King but the three concerns that set the public movement alight were protests against the Vietnam War, Conscription and then Civil Liberties. Other issues soon came to the fore
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BiocharEpoch Future 1 Biochar
Biochar is as old as the hills and as new as the carbon crises. It's a way of breaking down unwanted waste which is carbon based like agricultural, certain industrial and household wastes. The method of slow burning allows the formation of solid carbon rather than atmospherically released carbon. Not only is it good for the atmosphere but it is particularly good for ground, micro organism health thereby aiding the next cycle of planting and harvesting.
Biochar Soil and Air Elixir
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