Published 01 December 2020
The place Ecopolis 2, the world's first ecocity. The time -- mid-afternoon 3rd November 2007.
It never gets really cold in the Top End. But it does get very humid during the Wet. However, simple steps in house design can make the house comfortable and you don't need fans and air conditioners.
Published December 1991
Berwyn Lewis talks to solar physicist Bruce Robins. Imagine 6 billion people simultaneously turning on lights and electrical appliances. This apocalyptic drain on power would plunge us into an eternal blackout with devastating effects on the environement.
Exhibition review Reflections on a year of contemporary art in Tasmania.
Mudflat arts believes that the landscape is not there to be painted so much as to be protected. The role has changed from one of passive painter to active member of the community.
Landscape art by Roger Noakes and Flightpath.
Exhibition review Subject/Object Arthouse Tasmania October 1991
..the response to a site was very much tied up with the way humans had mediated the experience. Yes trees and forests were sacred but that didn't mean that you couldn't touch them. Our mediation of course must be sensitive - be fearless yet thoughtful... Series of black and white photographs accompany the article.
The Sandgate Environmental Sculpture has involved the local community in both designing and creating the sculpture.
In Tasmania particularly it can be difficult to be vocal about political issues. Here is a chance to be uncompromising, a chance to take risks, a chance to raise community cultural awarenes. And who says art needs to be permanent? Heres a chance to make something and then release it, to allow visual art to metamorphose into performance art. Intrigued? then follow up the article!
Exhibition review Manifest Destiny: Ian North Vast: David Stephenson Contemporary Art Centre South Australia 14 September - 6 October 1991
Our town planners, our architects and we ourselves need to rethink the city. If downtown spaces, internal and external, are to become inhabitable, there needs to be a dramatic shift away from narrowly architectural conception of them and their functions towards an acoustic analysis.
Looks at issues of energy self sufficiency -- battery banks and photovoltaic solar collector panels.
