Caring for this beautiful country has become the major task for all Australians today. Working together, each one of us has a little bit of the BIG VISION. Caring for the Australian country and it’s vast and diverse natural wonder inspires a unity and vision that even the most uncaring of us cannot deny.
In many parts of the Mt Warning Caldera Region are small hubs of sustainable lifestyle knowledge. Authentic local environmental stewardship. And educational resources that continue, through time, to the next generation.
Many different regions have local land stewards carrying stories that contain valid information. Environmental management decision making stories. Many of these stories are very “ground level” and not always apparent. Many of these people who hold these stories are quite old. Some are members of local groups – nature/community groups of some kind, others are not.
Small, local populations, doing their little bit towards this common future of sustainability.
And, like the valuable threatened species that also abound in this area, they would benefit by increased linking and networking, with sound corridors put in place so that their knowledge is easily shared with others within the region.
Small regional schools hold a wealth of wisdom in their “catchment” communities, when it comes to exchange and extension of environmental information. This exhange is a VALUABLE area that needs to be mentored. There are all types of wildlife workers, land workers, water workers, sustainable lifestyle practitioners out there, in the Mt Warning Caldera Region.
The valuable information, that of the knowledge of the natural processes, the intrinsic understanding of the animal habitat, the love and wonder of the harmonies of nature – all these things need increased mentoring by government levels of care.
A child, prepared by economics and market forces, in the coming ages, may no longer do as well the child prepared slowly but surely, by environmentally sustainable lifestyle education.
Much of the child’s time is taken in the education and learning system of our society. Economics, family and homelife, products, travel, communications, recreation, electronic products, toys – many of these things consume the rest of a child’s time.
Running through all of this, and appearing to hold more immediate validity than learning of authentic education for sustainability, is this:- A powerful economic framework with the speed of money, economies of scale and fuel powered motion. Where do the small units of authentic ”unencumbered ” biodiversity really figure in all of this?
This is an enigma. this is a dichotomy. This first and foremost needs to be resolved.
“A Balance of Faeries” : why the little things count in authentic Land and Water Stewardship
Totem based Education for Biodiversity in Darling River (Murray Darling System) – totem based education is something that can be considered for many regions and catchments, through the Primary School “house” system.
Cross – Cultural Environmental Education and the evolution of Australia’s Cultural Policy article at bluecray.org
Stewardship – the Balances : Article on Land, Air and Water Stewardship and its relation to early childhood learning/learned behaviour and social/economic pressures (behaviours) (April 2009) at Wisdom in the Land Bluecray blog
“Environmental Advocacy Blogs – The Art of Public Engagement” with a link to Melissa Merry’s Article on “Blogging and Environmental Advocacy: a New Way to Engage the Public?” – March 2008
The Well Trained Activist‘s article “Can Corporate Leadership Theorists Help Activists?” - This is a great website full of great inspiration, with links to Daniel Goleman’s : Ecological Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, Social Intelligence page.
- search for Aboriginal (Indigenous peoples) research literature for the North Coast of NSW at the Libraries Australia Search
- Chief Oren Lyons at the E.F.Schumacher Society .
Lifting the illusions and emotional perceptions that we carry so that we may learn to fully participate in meaningful ecological decisions. This is indeed a worthy challenge. Corporate leadership, if incorporated with love, respect and authentic Land and Water Stewardship? THIS really COULD change the world!!
Phantom Koala and his Friends. Waiting for us to join him on his adventures.
The Bluecray Journey – The Bluecray Totem – How it all began
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Gold Coast City and Hinze Dam seen from Lower Beechmont (top, middle). Springbrook, Mt Warning and Lamington Plateau - Numinbah Valley or "Devil's Country" is in the centre-left -seen from Beechmont Plateau.(bottom), SE QLD, Australia.
** Dear Reader, just a note here – if you are looking for photo of bees, environmental advocacy pictures , collages of the environment for advocacy or the Phantom Koala art/collages for the Mt Warning Caldera Region – I have compiled quite a few on bluecray.org now. Please feel free to use them for educational purposes (just cite al@ bluecray), and if you should like to have higher quality images to use, please contact me and we can send the images to you at a minimal charge. cheers, Alison Polistchuk