Category Archives: sustainable population
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
Just Keeping Things Moving Along – Yet again
The quintessential blogger seems to be either a professional writer/journalist or an amateur with lots of time available (almost on a daily basis) to set down their thoughts and share them with the world. Unfortunately, as any viewer of this … Continue reading
The Sustainable Population Strategy 1.
In May, 2011, the Australian Government released a paper entitled “Sustainable Australia – Sustainable Communities” and subtitled “A Sustainable Population Strategy For Australia”. This was followed by “Sustainable Australia – Sustainable Communities: An Overview”, reports from three panels of experts … Continue reading
Infrastructure 5 (Communications).
There is currently an argument raging between Australia’s two main political parties on the need to provide a national broadband service to all regions of Australia and what should be its form and specification. The Labour government favours a comprehensive … 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
The re-engineering of Australia. 