Author Archives: Peter Boyer

Good teachers stay with you for your whole life. Here’s a short roll call of some teachers who shaped mine. At primary school I fell in love with kind, patient Miss Fielding, my first grade teacher, while streetwise Mrs Dick … Continue reading →

It has been a long and anxious wait, but last week produced two signs that the Tasmanian government is now on board with the notion that being committed to climate change is more than just saying so.  The first came … Continue reading →

The passage of time was never more confronting to me than seeing Professor Gretta Pecl in the news last week as co-author of a new, devastating report on the state of the global ocean. She’s also presenting next Friday at … Continue reading →