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The real climate challenge: engaging with ordinary people

Besides being one of the world’s leading climate scientists, Stephen Schneider had deeply-felt humanitarian convictions. His experience of taking his climate concerns to the wider public should alert us to the real climate challenge: getting ordinary people engaged in reducing … Continue reading

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How climate change is changing us

Keynote address to plenary session 2010 School Conference, School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 2 July 2010. View YouTube video here and here. [3 July 2010 | Peter Boyer] [Professor] Elaine Stratford [head, School of Geography and … Continue reading

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Rail: do we have the vision to make it work?

Rail is known to be an effective means of mass transportation in a fuel-starved world. Does Tasmania have what it takes to revive its lost passenger rail service? Continue reading

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