Climate Change debate

This is an edit of a debate 'Global Warming is the only issue':

http://www.thedeakins.com.au/deakin/01%20The%20Deakin%20Debate_%20that%20climate%20change%20is%20the%20only.m4a

FOR
Chris Turner, author of 'The Geography of Hope'
Don Henry, executive director, Australian Conservation Foundation
Larissa Brown, founder and executive director, Centre for Sustainability Leadership
AGAINST
Dr Norman Lewis, chief strategy officer, Wireless Grids Corporation (USA)
Austin Williams, architect, writer and critic, founder of ManTowNHuman
Dr Leela Gandhi, professor of English University of Chicago

ABC's "Counterpoint"

Here's an interview for ABC's "Counterpoint" which gets the gist of the book across. It's the first item (about 20 minutes or so). My thanks to Paul Comrie-Thomson and Ian Coombes:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/counterpoint/stories/2008/2275839.htm

Flawed designs

Here's a gentle critical response to the Age article:

http://www.onegreener.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Response-Flawed-design-for-a-perfect-city.html&Itemid=203

SBS Radio

Here's a recording of me interviewed by Caroline Davey on SBS Radio in Melbourne.

http://203.15.102.143:8080/ramgen/radio/worldview-080609-335.rm

Special Broadcasting Services (SBS) is Australia’s multicultural and multilingual public broadcaster, billed as the 'world's most linguistically diverse broadcaster... broadcasting in 68 different languages'.

The Melbourne Age predicts a rough ride

Here's a piece on my talk at the Alfred Deakin Lectures in Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday

http://www.theage.com.au/national/flawed-design-for-a-perfect-city-20080606-2my9.html?page=-1

I will report back on what reception I got, later!!

A

Alfred Deakin Innovation Lectures are here: http://www.deakinlectures.net/program/lecture9.html
http://www.deakinlectures.net/program/lecture10.html
http://www.deakinlectures.net/program/lecture17.html

Wartime Thrift

Many thanks for this review from the American National Association of Scholars, 'founded in 1987, soon after Allan Bloom’s surprise best-seller, The Closing of the American Mind, alerted Americans to the ravages wrought by illiberal ideologies on campus':

http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?Doc_Id=199

Review on Spiked

I am grateful to Tony Gilland for the following review for spiked-online, in the company of Nigel Lawson's book "An Appeal to Reason"

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/reviewofbooks_article/5204/

I will be debating Nigel Lawson at Waterstones Economist bookshop on 22nd July 2008. For more details, see: http://www.futurecities.org.uk/barnies.html