Australian River Restoration Centre (ARRC)

Belief – Belonging – Behaviour

What is your clean water worth to you?

Thanks to Twitter (yet again) I was alerted to this amazing web site called I count for my earth and videos on water.  The video is called “Tapped” and covers everything from chemicals (including endocrine disrupting chemicals) in the water, to the amount of landfill created each year by plastic bottles used for selling drinking [...]

The House on the Hill : the transformation of Australia’s farming communities

On the land and in country towns, the battle to survive goes on forever. Increasingly, the world needs food and fibre, but squeezes out the communities which provide them. Young people leave, farmers sell up, towns die, football teams amalgamate, communities keep reinventing themselves. What’s going on? What can we do? Neil Barr looks close [...]

Billabong Boy – book review

I read Billabong Boy in two nights, not wanting to put it down as it was a pleasure to read.  Arron is honest about the opportunities and the challenges he has confronted in trying to keep a business going that focuses on ‘kids teaching kids’, in a natural resources management sector that is not ‘flush [...]

Billabong boy – Arron Wood’s Story

At eight years old, Arron Wood jumped into the billabong near his Mildura home and emerged covered in a toxic, blue-green algae that seared his eyes and left a rash all over his body. It was a pivotal moment for Arron, the beginning of a life committed to preserving the environment that he now shares [...]

Out of the Scientist’s Garden: a Story of Water and Food

Over the next few months we will be bringing you a series of posts on publications produced by Land & Water Australia over the last 20 years. We would really like to highlight some of the wonderful work undertaken and tell you about the publications which provide the detail of this work. Richard Stirzaker’s Out [...]

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    Connecting through Conversations: Narrative Techniques for Organisational Knowledge Sharing - Workshop 20 Oct 2010, Canberra

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    Origins Asia Pacific Business Narrative Conference, 6-8 Sept 2010.

    Australian Network for Plant Conservation 8th National Conference, Perth, Western Australia, 28 Sept - 1 October 2010.

    13th International Riversymposium, Perth, Western Australia, 11 - 14 October 2010.

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