Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Majora Carter: Greening the Ghetto
From TED
In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx -- and shows how minority neighborhoods suffer most from flawed urban policy.
Majora Carter redefined the field of environmental equality, starting in the South Bronx at the turn of the century. Now she is leading the local economic development movement across the USA
Monday, February 4, 2013
Milkwood Permaculture
Milkwood provides world-class education in Permaculture and Regenerative Agriculture. Courses are run at Milkwood Farm near Mudgee, in the center of Sydney and around Australia.
The major course they run is a Milkwood Permaculture Design Certificate, which provides a grounding in Permaculture design and theory. This runs for two weeks and costs approx $1700. certificate is recognized by the Permaculture Institute of Australia (which als The o runs courses- ten weeks - $6,600). Graduates may then progress towards a Diploma in Permaculture if they wish. The Milkwood course covers the 14 chapters of Bill Mollison's Permaculture: A Designers Manual.
The Course is being run in Sydney: Jun 29 2013 - Jul 12 2013.
Outside course hours there's optional hands-on workshops to help get you skilled up in urban permaculture skills, including composting, worm farming, aquaponics and more. We also take students on multiple site tours of some of Sydney's best and most inspiring permaculture systems.
Wormfarm poster from Afristar Foundation
Other Resources:
The major course they run is a Milkwood Permaculture Design Certificate, which provides a grounding in Permaculture design and theory. This runs for two weeks and costs approx $1700. certificate is recognized by the Permaculture Institute of Australia (which als The o runs courses- ten weeks - $6,600). Graduates may then progress towards a Diploma in Permaculture if they wish. The Milkwood course covers the 14 chapters of Bill Mollison's Permaculture: A Designers Manual.
The Course is being run in Sydney: Jun 29 2013 - Jul 12 2013.
Outside course hours there's optional hands-on workshops to help get you skilled up in urban permaculture skills, including composting, worm farming, aquaponics and more. We also take students on multiple site tours of some of Sydney's best and most inspiring permaculture systems.
- Milkwood also run a shorter, 2 day course, Introduction to Permaculture, costing $351. This is based on Bill Mollison's Introduction to Permaculture. April 13-14.
- Milkwood also run a 2 day course on growing vegetables. May 25 2013 - May 26 2013 9:00am - 5:00pm: $360.
Other Resources:
- Permaculture Sydney North
- Blue Mountains Permaculture
- Cloacina Development Blog: (Sewers and sewerage)
- The Urban Farming Guidebook
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Permaculture
The National Environment Centre (NEC) is a campus of TAFE NSW Riverina Institute located at Thurgoona near Albury on the NSW border with Victoria.
The NEC runs courses in Permaculture and a Diploma of Agriculture (Organic Production), (course details here)as well as an organic farming / permaculture internship.
Industry Links include:
The NEC has an organic farm which runs African Fat-tail sheep and pigs, as well as olives, bees, and vegetables which are sold at the Hume Murray Foodbowl Farmers Market every second Saturday.
They also plan to supply the Wangaratta markets and Rutherglen markets (as well as the Canberra and Melbourne markets - on special occasions).
Joel Salatin is a Virginian-based sustainable farmer. He is giving a series of talks in Kiama NSW, Feb 17-19. There is a video of Joel Salatin here.
The NEC runs courses in Permaculture and a Diploma of Agriculture (Organic Production), (course details here)as well as an organic farming / permaculture internship.
Industry Links include:
The NEC has an organic farm which runs African Fat-tail sheep and pigs, as well as olives, bees, and vegetables which are sold at the Hume Murray Foodbowl Farmers Market every second Saturday.
They also plan to supply the Wangaratta markets and Rutherglen markets (as well as the Canberra and Melbourne markets - on special occasions).
Joel Salatin is internationally respected for his farm's innovative, integrated animal systems. Following on from his previous Australian tours, Joel now returns ready to explain in detail how to replicate some of Polyface Farm's most successful livestock systems
Joel Salatin is a Virginian-based sustainable farmer. He is giving a series of talks in Kiama NSW, Feb 17-19. There is a video of Joel Salatin here.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Some Reading/Sources/References
- Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, Jeffrey Schnapp, Digital_Humanities, MIT Press, 2012.
- David Bearman, Archives and Museum Informatics Technical Report #9 (Pittsburgh, Archives and Museum Informatics, 1989).
- Matthew K. Gold, Editor, Debates in the Digital Humanities, Unniversity of Minnesota Press, 2012.
- Katherine Bode, Reading By Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field, Anthem Press, 2012.
- David Easley and Jon Kleinberg, Networks, Crowds and Markets: Reasoning about a highly connected world, Cambridge University Press (2010).
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Digital Technologies and Health Research
The Young and Well program is a fairly well-funded research institution in Australia. Their program is to "Explore the role of technologies in improving young people’s mental health and wellbeing."
The Centre for Mental Health Research at ANU is also doing some good work with Digital Technologies. Kylie Bennett is the Development Manager.
Here is a paper on "Young Men, Mental Health, and Technology: Implications for Service Design and Delivery in the Digital Age" coauthored buy members of the Young and Well research team and published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
There is also a new journal called "Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine" - although this seems to be aimed more at Physicians.
For more general (non-heath orientated) journals on the Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities Quarterly and Journal of Digital Humanities are probably the most relevant. Some people also cite Literary and Linguistic Computing and Digital Studies / Le champ numérique, although these last two are getting pretty technical.
On a non-digital, health-related issue, a link for "Australia's domestic response to the World Health Organization's (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health report "Closing the gap within a generation" can be found here.
They have three research programs:
Safe and Supportive (led by Phillippa Collin- UWS)
Connected and Creative (led by Amanda Third - UWS)
User-Driven and empowered (led by Lena Sanci - University of Melbourne).
They have a good "news" section, with things like:
- hosting an "online discussion with young people about suicide prevention in social media"
- an "online campaign targeting Australian teenagers, drawing attention to the consequences of thoughtless and hurtful use of social media and empowering them to act with respect online"
- a discussion about the "best online tools to help young people improve their mental health"
- a focus on "tackling young men's mental health through technology"
The Centre for Mental Health Research at ANU is also doing some good work with Digital Technologies. Kylie Bennett is the Development Manager.
Here is a paper on "Young Men, Mental Health, and Technology: Implications for Service Design and Delivery in the Digital Age" coauthored buy members of the Young and Well research team and published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Here is another article from the same journal entitled "Increasing Physical Activity with Mobile Devices: A Meta-Analysis".
The Cochrane Library just published a review of mobile messaging-based smoking cessation interventions. For further commentary on mobile apps for smoking cessation see this report from "mobile health news".
The Australian Men's Health program, "The Shed" has gone online.
Here is a guide to health- related tracking apps (mostly fitness) called "The Quantified Self".
Here is a discussion about the newest mobile application from National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2). Designed for those experiencing post-combat stress, “Positive Activity Jackpot,” available for Android systems, helps users creatively plan fun activities using “pleasant events scheduling,” a behavioral health therapy used to help regulate emotions and cope with stress. In short, it "encourages you to get moving"
The Australian Men's Health program, "The Shed" has gone online.
Here is a guide to health- related tracking apps (mostly fitness) called "The Quantified Self".
Here is a discussion about the newest mobile application from National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2). Designed for those experiencing post-combat stress, “Positive Activity Jackpot,” available for Android systems, helps users creatively plan fun activities using “pleasant events scheduling,” a behavioral health therapy used to help regulate emotions and cope with stress. In short, it "encourages you to get moving"
(The Medecine 2.0 conference takes place next year in London).
On a non-digital, health-related issue, a link for "Australia's domestic response to the World Health Organization's (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health report "Closing the gap within a generation" can be found here.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Digital Humanities References, Guides, Sources and Tools
Here's a recent post about "What do you do if you’re curious about DH but aren’t at a school with a DH program" published on the American Studies Association site.
The University of North Carolina Digital Innovation Lab, lists a series of tools.
There are a number of good links here including The Programming Historian, a set of programming lessons that are designed to be relevant to humanists. This is a series of tutorials that starts off with some gentle programming.
The Journal of the Digital Humanities has a good Getting Started page with lots of links, including to the "Spatial Humanities" page. This includes a list of Spatial Humanities Projects, which includes, in turn, the David Rumsey Map Collection, the Newberry Library Map Collection.
Those interested in mapping should consult the mapping tools provided at Bamboo Dirt.
There's also a CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide, which includes Sample projects, some reading, hot topics, blogs, journals, conferences,tools and methods, syllabi, etc. See also "Getting Started in the Digital Humanities" here.
For training etc, the Digital Humanities Sumer Institute at Victoira Uni, British Columbia, has Scholarships, CCI Winter School Applications are open (Brisbane) and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media have Digital History Research Awards for students entering the History and Art History doctoral program. Those interested should also check out the blog of Dan Cohen, Director of the Centre.
For reading:
Consult the "Critical Senses" reading list on Delicious.
@barnaclebarnes from #NDF2012 provided a list of tools, as did Tim Sherratt (@wragge).
There are discussions abut Syllabi here and here (Hacking History).
See also the "Social Network Analysis" course on Coursera. There are some discussion related to that course here.
The University of North Carolina Digital Innovation Lab, lists a series of tools.
There are a number of good links here including The Programming Historian, a set of programming lessons that are designed to be relevant to humanists. This is a series of tutorials that starts off with some gentle programming.
The Journal of the Digital Humanities has a good Getting Started page with lots of links, including to the "Spatial Humanities" page. This includes a list of Spatial Humanities Projects, which includes, in turn, the David Rumsey Map Collection, the Newberry Library Map Collection.
Those interested in mapping should consult the mapping tools provided at Bamboo Dirt.
There's also a CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide, which includes Sample projects, some reading, hot topics, blogs, journals, conferences,tools and methods, syllabi, etc. See also "Getting Started in the Digital Humanities" here.
For training etc, the Digital Humanities Sumer Institute at Victoira Uni, British Columbia, has Scholarships, CCI Winter School Applications are open (Brisbane) and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media have Digital History Research Awards for students entering the History and Art History doctoral program. Those interested should also check out the blog of Dan Cohen, Director of the Centre.
For reading:
Consult the "Critical Senses" reading list on Delicious.
@barnaclebarnes from #NDF2012 provided a list of tools, as did Tim Sherratt (@wragge).
There are discussions abut Syllabi here and here (Hacking History).
See also the "Social Network Analysis" course on Coursera. There are some discussion related to that course here.
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