freelance science journalist and author
From ABC Science Online, Ask an Expert, 20 August 2012: Q: Why doesn’t the skin on my fingers and underfeet go wrinkly as my grandchildren’s skin does when in the swimming pool for a long time? It used to when I was younger. I am 66. Is there something that happens to our skin as … Continue reading Why do your fingertips go wrinkly in water?
From ABC Health and Wellbeing, 14 August 2012: New research shows the current whooping cough vaccine is not as effective as its predecessor, so what’s the best way to protect children against this potentially deadly infection? A highly contagious disease, caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis, whooping cough is known for its severe coughing attacks … Continue reading Whooping cough vaccine: how well is it working?
From ABC Science, News in Science, 8 August 2012: The current whooping cough vaccine offers less protection against infection but is much safer than the older whole-cell vaccine, Australian researchers have found. The study examined Queensland immunisation and disease registers, which included more than 40,000 children born in 1998 who had received the vaccine. They … Continue reading Whooping cough vaccine weaker but safer
From ABC Environment, 19 June: TO INDUSTRIAL NATIONS scrabbling desperately for ways to reduce their carbon debt, the idea was instantly appealing: invest in developing-world projects that either prevent a forest from being cleared, or replant an area that has been cleared, thus reducing global carbon emissions, and earn carbon credits in the process. With … Continue reading Uncertain future for international forest scheme
From Ecos magazine, June 2012: Once home to one of the world’s largest unbroken stretches of tropical peatlands, Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan region has suffered badly from environmental mismanagement in recent years. Its devastated peatlands are now the focus of an Australian–Indonesian restoration effort that is using the region as a demonstration project for reducing global … Continue reading Indonesia’s peatlands a testground for REDD+
We lived in a world of waste. Vast amounts of limited resources are discarded into landfill each day, representing a loss that can never be recouped. But what if all this waste could instead be turned into opportunity? In its brilliant documentary Waste Not, the Total Environment Centre explores what we waste, how we waste … Continue reading Waste Not – a film by the Total Environment Centre
I had the honour of giving a presentation at the recent 2010 Innovative Industries Conference on the Sunshine coast, talking about the sixth wave of innovation and how to succeed in a resource-limited world. The conference is a fantastic think-tank opportunity for small to medium enterprise. Speakers covered a range of important subjects including marketing, … Continue reading Speech at the Innovative Industries Conference 2010, Caloundra
From ABC Environment, 5 July 2010: Insurance companies stand to lose a lot of money if the climate changes in unpredictable ways so they have become partners in the push to save the globe. EVEN ON THE ALREADY enlarged scale of renewable energy projects, DESERTEC is ambitious. It aims to build more than 16,000 square … Continue reading Insurance companies: unlikely planet saviours
From ABC Environment, 21 June 2010: Under our noses, our bottoms, in our garbage bins, on our streets and in our landfills is waste. Lots of it. But for some very lateral-thinking entrepreneurs, finding the waste, meant finding an opportunity to make money. The 10 ideas that follow are no simple cash-a-can exchange scheme, however. … Continue reading Waste to wonderful
Interested in getting into the wonderful world of freelance journalism? Founder of the Sydney Writers Centre Valerie Khoo and Bianca Nogrady recently gave a talk to the NSW branch of the Australian Science Communicators about how to be a successful freelance journalist. Bianca’s top five tips on how to succeed in freelancing are: 1. Use … Continue reading How to be a successful freelancer
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