Category Archives: environment
Engagement At MIT Colab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has undertaken a very interesting initiative called Colab. The intention is to engage interested individual people from all over the world in thinking of ideas for ameliorating the effects of climate change. Currently there are 25 … Continue reading
Maximising The Value Of Railways To The Environment.
Once again I must apologise for my lack of contribution to this blog in recent months. Retirees such as myself tend to glory in the apparently limitless time available to pursue interests or make oneself socially useful. One signs up … Continue reading
Elevated Railways: The What, The How And The Why
This blog has been dormant for quite a while (for which I apologise) but I seem to have become involved in quite an array of activities, all of which have made demands on my time. However, some of them were … Continue reading
An important aspect of remote-area living.
While looking at what is involved in estimating the maximum possible population for Australia, I, as an engineer, have naturally been drawn to the provision of the physical requirements, such as services, infrastructure, food production and the like. However, my … Continue reading
Infrastructure 2. Modes of Access.
Once the locations of possible settlements have been identified, the next step is to determine the best modes of access and the routes that they should follow. In this post, I hope to make the case that, for remote communities, … Continue reading
Infrastructure 1. Remote Settlements.
Bill McKibben, in his book “Eaarth”, makes the point that in a world where conservation of water, power and arable land is of prime importance, the most efficient and economical form of settlement is one of modest size and as … Continue reading
A Roadmap For This Discussion.
After reading Bill McKibben’s book “Eaarth”, I reviewed the ideas that I wanted to present and came to the conclusion that I was basically on the right track. However, I saw some great opportunities to extend them, not so much … Continue reading
Just Keeping Things Moving Along.
The various posts to this blog are based on sections of a discussion paper I had written. I would have expected to have more material posted by this time. However, I have been totally seduced by a book I have … Continue reading
Land Usage Mapping.
1. CREATING LAND USE PROFILES. If we are going to produce a map showing all of the potential land usages in a given area, we must first create, for each type of land use, a set of parameters, such as … Continue reading
The re-engineering of Australia. 