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The visibility quest
LAUREN DIAMOND WAS a visibility expert. "Visibility is inversely proportional to size. The eye doesn't register objects, but the...
Rethinking Australian agriculture
THE FOOD CHAIN concept presents a philosophical quandary. It appears to be a simple model with a beginning, a...
Beyond the recipe
‘EATING IS NOT merely a biological activity, but a vibrantly cultural activity,' the food anthropologist Sidney Mintz reminds us....
Re-thinking animals
Recognising that animals have consciousness is a huge step for humans, and dangerous, too, as it might well undermine not only traditional thinking but our traditional means of survival – that is, what we eat.
Sustaining a nation
WE VISITED OUR relations in spring last year. They raise their living from the central western plains of New...
Trouble at dolphin cove
IN A STORY by Ryunosuke Akutagawa called ‘The Spider Thread', the thief and arsonist Kandata is writhing in hell...
Fishing like there’s no tomorrow
IN THE CITIES and the suburbs of the affluent world, the fish are waiting. Across the cold counters of...
Food in the age of unsettlement
I HAVE THREE personas: designer-educator, sustainment theorist and forest farmer. The farmer came first. My grandfather was a market...
DNA and the justice game
I HAD JUST received double digits for the Brisbane National Australia Bank robbery when they transferred me into B...
Food security in the Arctic
IN 1847, FOUR years after being stood down as lieutenant governor of Tasmania, Sir John Franklin died at the...
Feeding the world
NEVILLE SIMPSON IS not your typical cotton farmer. He doesn't hold a university degree, nor does he command tens...
Creating sustainably productive cities
THE SCHOOLBOYS LAUGHED when they were told apples grew on trees. ‘Well, where do you think they come from?'...
