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	<description>Interviews on environmental topics, most of them concerning Western Australia.</description>
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		<title>Paleo Therapy</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2012/08/11/paleo-therapy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 07:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Currently I’m interested in the evolutionary context of human movement and psychology. I believe that stress reduction in modern Western society can be achieved through moving for pleasure in wild natural environments for regular, if brief, periods. We are stone age children born to twentieth century mothers, and I believe that understanding our past can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2012/02/05/goodbye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my last blog post for a long time, maybe forever. I began this site in 2005, with help from my brother. Thanks for all your help Sam. That year I finished writing my PhD. In 2006 I started writing a blog, and for the next six years I regularly contributed images and words [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moral Leaders of the Nation</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2012/01/18/moral-leaders-of-the-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over Christmas I took the opportunity to look back over some of the talk from 2011.  Here I bring you the words of the &#8216;moral leaders of the nation&#8217;.  The first comes from the American nation.  The second comes from the Australian nation. The first comes from American author Bill McKibben, and the second comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Food, Dirt to Plate</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/12/28/good-food-dirt-to-plate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three of the most important environmental decisions you make each day: Breakfast Lunch Dinner With that in mind, Alissa Bilfield co-founder and director of the Cookbook Project is on the line from Boston in the US to kick off the show and tell us about her new slow food initiative.  Later we will hear from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Truth About Mining in Australia, and the Benefits of Sharing a House</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/12/21/the-truth-about-mining-in-australia-and-the-benefits-of-sharing-a-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; This week we hear from Executive Director of The Australia Institute Richard Denniss about the real story of the mining industry in Australia.  With the high cost of living in Perth in mind, partly caused by the mining boom, more people are turning to shared living to be able to afford a house to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I SUPPORT THE RIGHT TO ARM BEARS</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/11/29/i-support-the-right-to-arm-bears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the show comes from Vietnam. I make a botched attempt of singing a line from Noel Coward, and then explore Ba Be National Park in northern Vietnam. Ba Be is an area of deep green rainforest and high limestone peaks. I talk with the director of the park and some of the villagers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam: From Hanoi to Ba Be National Park</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/10/26/vietnam-from-hanoi-to-ba-be-national-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; These are a few of the images that remained in my mind after visiting Hanoi and the rainforested mountains south of the Chinese border. The soundtrack comes from sitting around in a village hut in Ba Be with a couple of the women farmers singing in their local Tay language. At the start you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is God Green?</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/10/26/is-god-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Understorey starts with a discussion with David Conover, a film maker in America (pictured above).  Conover is the mastermind behind the contemplative and visually stunning series Sunrise Earth, and he is currently producing a film called Behold the Earth, and exploration of science and religion as different avenues for embracing nature in American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bike Love</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/10/18/bike-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really liked the look of this guy&#8217;s bike workshop.  Its a street corner.  Good view eh? &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>A Chap in Hanoi</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/10/17/a-chap-in-hanoi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Temple of Literature was built in 1070 as a conduit for the teachings of Confucius.  After ambling through this establishment this morning, I walked around the corner and sat myself down for a shave.  As I leaned back I saw above the leaves and branches of rainforest trees, and in the reflection in front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the mountains&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/10/15/from-the-mountains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 02:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been making a short film with a few people in Ba Be National Park in northern Vietnam.  I&#8217;m not going to write much now, just putting up a couple of photos.  From the land where the pith helmet is actually worn by millions of men on bicycles. &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Hallo Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/10/12/hallo-vietnam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the spur of the moment I booked a ticket to Hanoi, northern Vietnam, last week.  Tonight I sit on the balcony of a wooden stilt house by a lake with touring limestone peaks as a dimly made out sky line all around.  This laptop is about to run out of batteries, so I&#8217;ll keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Environmental Message in Reggae: From Pablo Moses to Mista Savona</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/09/27/the-environmental-message-in-reggae-music-from-pablo-moses-to-mista-savona/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week on Understorey its a reggae special.  I talk with roots reggae legend Pablo Moses &#8211; pictured above &#8211; about his music and the place of nature in the Rastafarian faith.  Later I interview Ian Scobie, director of Earth Station, a boutique environment and music festival taking place in a National Park in South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sheltering Overnight in Freo</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/09/25/sheltering-overnight-in-freo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 02:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This man is giving his vote of confidence to the Department of Housing and Works and their ability to provide shelter to those who need it.  The sad thing is that this political-cartoon-like image is a real scene, and was observed by myself on the streets of Fremantle around 1am last night.]]></description>
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		<title>Rock Wallabies on the Way Out?  The View From the Stone Citadel.</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/08/30/rock-wallabies-threatened-the-view-from-a-stone-citadel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I found myself sitting at the back of a sparse stone chamber and looking through a granite arch out over woodland, boulders and fields, all wet and green.  This was the prospect from my refuge.  I hadn&#8217;t expected to find myself sitting high up in a remote and little visited stone cavern looking over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nature Deficit Disorder or a Biophilic City?</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/07/27/nature-deficit-disorder-and-biophilic-cities/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2011/07/27/nature-deficit-disorder-and-biophilic-cities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Griffin Longley from Nature Play talks with me about his efforts to remedy nature deficit disorder in Perth.  Tim Beatly from the University of Virginia&#8217;s architecture school chats with me about biophilic cities, and how Fremantle might become more of one.  Here is this week&#8217;s Understorey.]]></description>
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		<title>A Chat with Ben Elton</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/06/29/a-chat-with-ben-elton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended a forum on the end of logging in Western Australia at Notre Dame in Fremantle.  The MC for the event was none other than English comedian Ben Elton.  On this week&#8217;s Understorey we hear from Ben Elton, as well as other speakers at the forum.  In the second half of the show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gyuto Monks of Tibet, Speaking Direct from Kulcha</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/06/21/the-gyuto-monks-of-tibet-speaking-direct-from-kulcha/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tibet has maintained a deeply conservative cultural tradition and religion for many hundreds of years behind a curtain of high mountains.  If you were at the Burswood Dome last weekend to see the Dalai Lama you would have seen the red robes and yellow hats of the Gyuto monks, costumes that have not changed for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s that music?  Rest in Peace Gil Scott-Heron.</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/06/06/whats-that-music-rest-in-peace-gil-scott-heron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 05:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day after Gil died just over a week ago I put this picture of him behind the Kulcha bar.  At the time I wrote: Gil Scott Heron died yesterday. For many years Gil has been a kind of mentor I never met, a figure who inspired me and gave me strength when I didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Back on Managing Kulcha: The First Half of 2011</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/06/06/looking-back-on-managing-kulcha-the-first-half-of-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so we come to this year.  We&#8217;ve already had some amazing musical performances in our 200 capacity venue above the rooftops of the port.  In April Tony McManus played a beautiful guitar concert in which I even heard Erick Satie being transposed at one point.  Then only a few weeks after the Egyptian oud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Back on Managing Kulcha: 2010</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/06/06/looking-back-on-managing-kulcha-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year at Kulcha my personal highlight was, along with original Freo personality Danny Cummings, starting a jazz funk, disco house, deep house, afrobeat DJ night called WILDSTYLE.  We slowly built the night till the summer came around at the end of the year and the dance floor exploded during the Festival of Fremantle series. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Back at Managing Kulcha: 2009</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/06/06/looking-back-at-managing-kulcha-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2011/06/06/looking-back-at-managing-kulcha-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here goes, I&#8217;m going to give you my view of the highlights from Kulcha over the last couple of years.  Its really a visual essay, images I took that create a portrait of each year in the venue. And best gig of the year at Kulcha in 2009 goes to&#8230; Sirroco.  Australia&#8217;s greatest &#8216;world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ian Lowe on How Australia Has Done on Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/05/25/ian-lowe-on-how-australia-keeps-failing-on-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2011/05/25/ian-lowe-on-how-australia-keeps-failing-on-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 01:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President of the Australian Conservation Foundation Ian Lowe comes into the RTR studios to talk with me about the Australian federal government&#8217;s series of failures to deal with the threat of climate change.  Here is this week&#8217;s podcast.]]></description>
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		<title>PERTH POEM by John Kinsella</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/04/27/perth-poem-by-john-kinsella/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2011/04/27/perth-poem-by-john-kinsella/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I managed to get one of Australia&#8217;s most critically acclaimed poets, John Kinsella, to record his poem &#8216;Perth Poem&#8217; for the show.  As you follow his branches through the urban corners and natural facets of this Western city you&#8217;ll be surprised.  Here is the podcast.]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Tim Flannery</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/03/30/interview-with-tim-flannery/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2011/03/30/interview-with-tim-flannery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I talk with Tim Flannery about his fantastic new book Here On Earth.  He was here for the Perth Writer&#8217;s Festival and I got to have a chat with him in the RTR studio.  Here is the podcast.]]></description>
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		<title>Conversation with Ric How: The Fate of Urban Wildlife in Perth</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/03/01/conversation-with-ric-how-the-fate-of-urban-wildlife-in-perth/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2011/03/01/conversation-with-ric-how-the-fate-of-urban-wildlife-in-perth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I visit the WA Museum, a big green shed in Welshpool, a suburb of Perth, and talk to ecologist Ric How about the native animals of Perth and how they have fared over the years.  Here is this week&#8217;s podcast.]]></description>
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		<title>Saving grass trees, and the live export of cattle from Fremantle.</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/02/16/saving-grass-trees-and-the-live-export-of-cattle-from-fremantle/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2011/02/16/saving-grass-trees-and-the-live-export-of-cattle-from-fremantle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Abbott of Replants, a business in Fremantle, talks about his work transplanting grass trees from bush to be destroyed around Perth. Greens MLC Lyn McClaren talks about the latest evidence condemning the export of live cattle to Indonesia from Fremantle. Here is this week&#8217;s podcast.]]></description>
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		<title>Return from the Kingdom &#8211; Part Two</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/02/13/return-from-the-kingdom-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2011/02/13/return-from-the-kingdom-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 07:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next the windows swung open to me on northern Thailand.  Wherever you are on the planet the temperature generally drops six degrees for every thousand metres you gain in altitude.  Getting off the train in Chiang Mai in north-west Thailand bleary eyed after a night of little sleep I felt the cooler air and gave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return from the Kingdom</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/02/10/return-from-the-kingdom/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2011/02/10/return-from-the-kingdom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just back from three weeks wandering around Thailand, the Kingdom of Siam.  In the above photo I&#8217;m hanging on Ko Jum.  With plenty of head space I relaxed and took in that combination of elements: moisture filled balmy air, gentle breezes, large leaved trees and palms and green grass, wide sandy beach and an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Seed reads Robinson Jeffers</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2011/01/12/john-seed-reads-robinson-jeffers-2/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2011/01/12/john-seed-reads-robinson-jeffers-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legendary Australian environmental philosopher John Seed discusses and reads from the work of his favourite poet Robinson Jeffers.  Danny Cummings reads from Henry David Thoreau.  Here is this week&#8217;s podcast.]]></description>
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		<title>Another Lizard</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/12/15/another-lizard/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/12/15/another-lizard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Skinks running at me today on the West End of Rottnest, fearlessly seeking food.  Sleek scales move over hot limestone.  Millions of years of evolution slinking over sun kissed skeletons of sand, reading striations of past ages with clawed feet.]]></description>
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		<title>John Seed Reads Robinson Jeffers</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/12/09/john-seed-reads-robinson-jeffers/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/12/09/john-seed-reads-robinson-jeffers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On 7 December John Seed appeared at Kulcha in Fremantle.  He spoke to us about deep ecology, as he had when he appeared at Kulcha last year.  John also read some of the poems of the American poet Robinson Jeffers.  His reading of Jeffers poetry was particularly memorable, and I invited him to record some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lizard</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/12/06/lizard/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/12/06/lizard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this guy wandering through the woods the other day and I thought I&#8217;d share him with the world.  No comment today, just tipping my hat to a fellow explorer.  Varanus gouldii, or Gould&#8217;s goanna.]]></description>
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		<title>The Freo Tweed Run</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/12/01/the-freo-tweed-run/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/12/01/the-freo-tweed-run/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 04:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A live recording from Freo Tweed Run, a celebration of gentlemanly style and the two wheeled steed.  As well as a retrospective look at the 2009 Montaro oil spill which took place off the north-west coast of Australia.  Here is this week&#8217;s podcast.]]></description>
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		<title>Freo Tweed Run, 2010: A Perfect Way to Start the Weekend.</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/11/14/freo-tweed-run-2010-a-perfect-way-to-start-the-weekend/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/11/14/freo-tweed-run-2010-a-perfect-way-to-start-the-weekend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning was the morning of the great Freo Tweed Run.  This was an event in which the two hundred or so registered riders would congregate on South Beach in Fremantle wearing their most dapper kit, generally tweed, and after a bout of leisurely chit chat, take a run up to the Fremantle Esplanade.  Henceforth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Journey with Sea Shepherd and a Word from Tasmania with Peter Adams</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/11/03/a-journey-with-sea-shepherd-and-a-word-from-tasmania-with-peter-adams/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/11/03/a-journey-with-sea-shepherd-and-a-word-from-tasmania-with-peter-adams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This show takes place onboard the Sea Shepherd ship the Steve Irwin when that ship was docked in Fremantle in late 2010.  The second half of the show is a conversation with the inspirational Tasmanian artist and wilderness sage Peter Adams. Here is this week&#8217;s podcast.]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting the Steve Irwin at Fremantle</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/10/28/1545/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/10/28/1545/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just walked around the Steve Irwin, interviewing a couple of the ship’s crew for the environmental radio show I host Understorey.  I left the humdrum hustle of Freo streets behind, walked across the train tracks, and as I approached the docks of Fremantle wharf, the black form of the Steve Irwin loomed from between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Time on Boyagin Rock</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/10/15/deep-time-on-boyagin-rock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I’ve returned from Boyagin Rock, a huge granite monolith 140kms east of here.  I camped there last night with some friends.  Going there is like slipping through the mosaic of environmental devastation in the wheatbelt into a land that has escaped whipping.  It is a journey into how much of southern Western Australia has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An update on the Roe Highway plan to destroy bush land and the sorry health of dolphins in the Swan River.</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/10/06/an-update-on-the-roe-highway-plan-to-destroy-bush-land-and-the-sorry-health-of-dolphins-in-the-swan-river/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An update from WA Greens Member of the Legislative Council Lyn McClaren on what the WA state government is now planning on doing to the native vegetation of North Lake (destroying it by building more roads).  This episode also includes a look with historian and Swan river advocate Sue Graham Taylor at the six dolphins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wildflower Photography and the Drying Climate in South-west Australia</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/09/15/wildflower-photography-and-the-drying-climate-in-south-west-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/09/15/wildflower-photography-and-the-drying-climate-in-south-west-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first half of the show is an interview with Stanley and Keiser Breedan, the authors of the gorgeous large-format book Wildflower Country published in 2010 by UWA Press.  The second half of the show is an interview with Don MacFarlane from CSIRO which sums up recent research on the drying of the climate in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Endangered Western Swamp Tortoises and Land Care in the WA Wheatbelt</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/09/14/endangered-western-swamp-tortoises-and-land-care-in-the-wa-wheatbelt/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/09/14/endangered-western-swamp-tortoises-and-land-care-in-the-wa-wheatbelt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I wander around the breeding ponds of the Perth Zoo, a last bastion of the Western Swamp Tortoise.  Also I chat with Glenice Batchelor, a winner of a Landcare award in the WA wheatbelt.  Here is this week&#8217;s podcast.]]></description>
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		<title>The Sunset Frog</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/09/07/the-sunset-frog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I get a peek at the very little and very beautiful Sunset Frog, a frog that lives in peat bogs in south-west Australia and may be one of the planet&#8217;s first casualties of global climate warming.  Here is this week&#8217;s podcast.]]></description>
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		<title>Wildflower Country</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/08/30/wildflower-country/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/08/30/wildflower-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just read this new book from Fremantle Press: Wildflower Country.  It is a large, folio-style book of macro colour photographs of wildflowers from the south-west of Australia.  The Western Australian flowers often reminded me of unearthly, alien-like organisms when seen in these beautifully photographed macro perspectives.  As the author of the text, Stanley Breeden, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walk Against Warming, Fremantle 2010</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/08/17/walk-against-warming-fremantle-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1514</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday two or three thousand people converged on the Fremantle Esplanade to protest government inaction on climate change.  At the end of this week Australia will vote on our next federal government, and it was a good time for this national day of protest to take place (not to mention the climate change disaster events [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Island Visions at Kulcha</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/08/08/green-island-visions-at-kulcha/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/08/08/green-island-visions-at-kulcha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 12:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday at Kulcha (the venue I work at in Fremantle) was a celebration of Jamaican Independence Day, ‘Roots of Reggae’.  The venue at Kulcha looked like a haven of greens, with huge branches of tropical foliage turning the downstairs entrance hallway into a jungle.  Upstairs at the bar were found real whole coconut cocktails, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate change protest from the Fremantle Esplanade: Walk Against Warming 2010.</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/08/08/climate-change-protest-from-the-fremantle-esplanade-walk-against-warming-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/08/08/climate-change-protest-from-the-fremantle-esplanade-walk-against-warming-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 08:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I take a trip into the fray of Australia&#8217;s national day of protest about climate change governmental inaction.  Here is this week&#8217;s podcast.]]></description>
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		<title>Eating kangaroo and paying your water bill in Perth, Western Australia.</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/07/07/eating-kangaroo-and-paying-your-water-bill-in-perth-western-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/07/07/eating-kangaroo-and-paying-your-water-bill-in-perth-western-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Mawson, zoologist from the Department of Environment and Conservation comes into the studio to explain how the harvesting of kangaroos works in WA, and Sue Murphy CEO of the Water Corporation speaks on why water in Perth is getting more expensive.  Here is this week&#8217;s podcast.]]></description>
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		<title>Rainbow lorikeets taking over our city and the future of water use in Perth.</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/06/23/rainbow-lorikeets-taking-over-our-city-and-the-future-of-water-use-in-perth/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/06/23/rainbow-lorikeets-taking-over-our-city-and-the-future-of-water-use-in-perth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Mawson talks about the takeover of Perth by the invasive rainbow lorikeet. Also Sue Murphy gives the inaugural George Seddon lecture on the future of water use in Perth. Here is this week&#8217;s podcast.]]></description>
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		<title>Bioregional Revolution (Remixing Gary Snyder for Australian Conditions)</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/06/16/bioregional-revolution-remixing-gary-snyder-for-australian-conditions/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/06/16/bioregional-revolution-remixing-gary-snyder-for-australian-conditions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1495</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An owl winks in the shadow A lizard lifts on tiptoe breathing hard. A robot in a suit peddles a mineral-rich delusion called &#8220;Western Australia&#8221;. The head-heavy, power-hungry Government shuffles papers Does it speak for the green of the leaf? Does it speak for the soil? In the city of Perth the front line expands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chopping down jarrah forest near Bridgetown, and a visit to an eco-village, the Wolery.</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/05/26/understory/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/05/26/understory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 12:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we hear from Russel Catamore about the logging of the Warrup block of forest by the state government near Bridgetown.  Also a visit to WAs oldest and most established ec0-village, the Wolery, near Denmark on the south coast of WA. Here is this week&#8217;s Understory.]]></description>
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		<title>The Final Days of Warrup Forest?</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/05/13/the-final-days-of-warrup-forest/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/05/13/the-final-days-of-warrup-forest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 08:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1472</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Warrup, an area of jarrah and marri forest in the south-west of Australia, south-east of Bridgetown.  Much of it is scheduled to be chopped down this year.  I was there recently, and can report that it is a beautiful, healthy and biodiverse ecosystem, far from the madding crowds. Walking through the forest I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wandering down to the Wolery</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/05/11/wandering-down-to-the-wolery/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/05/11/wandering-down-to-the-wolery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 14:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I gave my environmental history presentation to a group of Notre Dame sustainability students on the south coast of WA.  I took a few friends with me for the ride, and along with a large dome tent and some red wine, we wound our way south.  Upon arriving in Denmark we rendezvoused with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Penelope Swales Environmental Lyrics, and Mark O&#8217;Connor on the Australian Population Problem.</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/04/21/penelope-swales-environmental-lyrics-and-mark-oconnor-on-the-australian-population-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/04/21/penelope-swales-environmental-lyrics-and-mark-oconnor-on-the-australian-population-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Penelope Swales&#8217;s song Black Carrie about a German environmental activist.  Then we hear from author Mark O&#8217;Connor about the population problem in Australia. Here is this week&#8217;s podcast.]]></description>
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		<title>Penelope Swales</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/04/09/penelope-swales/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/04/09/penelope-swales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met Penelope at Kulcha recently when she was performing there, over from the east coast.  She told me about her new video &#8216;Black Carrie&#8217;, about a German environmental activist she once knew.  Its finally been released and here it is: Black Carrie.]]></description>
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		<title>Laughing at the Male Ego</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/04/03/laughing-at-the-male-ego/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 03:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1443</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Down By Law is a black and white film which came out nearly a quarter of a century ago in 1986.  This film memorably portrays the late night streets of a long past New Orleans.  But isn’t this blog about culture and the natural world?  Why am I writing about what most people would think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to My Place</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/03/24/welcome-to-my-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve now completed a series of PowerPoint presentations on the environmental history of south-west Australia.  I gave the first presentation of this slideshow last Friday night.  The location for the projection was fitting: a clearing amongst marri and paperbark woodland ten minutes drive east of the small town of Yallingup, three hours drive south of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Western Australia as Home for White Settlers.  As well as a look at the current health of the Swan River.</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/03/17/western-australia-as-home-for-white-settlers-as-well-as-a-look-at-the-current-health-of-the-swan-river/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jane Davis is the author of a PhD thesis on the feelings of belonging among early white settlers to WA, and talked with me about the first impressions these people had of WA.  Piers Vestagen head of the Conservation Council then updates us on the polluted Swan River. Here is this week&#8217;s podcast.]]></description>
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		<title>Vulnerable Perth</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/02/27/vulnerable-perth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This map uses the colours of the traffic light to show which areas of Perth have good public transport (green) to average (yellow) to bad (red) to nonexistent (black).  If you live in an area in the black and the price of oil goes up too high, as it eventually will, you won&#8217;t be able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Woldendorp Talks About Photographing Western Australia</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/02/23/richard-woldendorp-talks-about-photographing-western-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/02/23/richard-woldendorp-talks-about-photographing-western-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Western Australia&#8217;s most well known landscape photographer Richard Woldendorp took the time to come into the studio and talk with me about his life photographing WA.  Here is the podcast.]]></description>
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		<title>A Philosophical Land</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/02/08/a-philosophical-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I was walking through John Forrest National Park with a friend.  Do you know the jarrah and wandoo and dryandra clothed slopes of the Darling Scarp in late afternoon light towards midsummer? This is not a gushing, romantic, sloppy land, I thought as I walked.  This land is spartan and dry and ancient and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Walk Through the Karri Forest with John Pate</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/02/03/a-walk-through-the-karri-forest-with-john-pate/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/02/03/a-walk-through-the-karri-forest-with-john-pate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Pate is a retired professor of botany who lives on a many hectare property on Mt. Shadforth by Denmark on the south coast of WA.  John took me on a walk along the steep trails he has created by hand over the years and discussed the karri forest that he loves so much with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Haul of Sea Grapes</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/02/01/a-haul-of-sea-grapes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I woke up, post-party induced sleep still in my eyes, and after a short drive with my friend Steve, walked into the sea.  I was walking into the water at Cottesloe with around fifteen friends who were joining me and a friend, Rainbo Dixon, Murdoch University doctoral candidate and underwater botanist extraordinaire, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Virtue of Being a Savage in the Blue</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/01/21/a-savage-in-the-blue/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/01/21/a-savage-in-the-blue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1392</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I live in the south-west of the Australian continent. Although if you look at an ariel photograph of the city of Perth you won’t see much wilderness, you could be mistaken.  The eleven year old boy, marvelling at the living creation, lives on.  The blue on the map hides something. The other morning I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Higher for 2010</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2010/01/06/higher-for-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2010/01/06/higher-for-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Year&#8217;s greetings.  This is a bit belated, but I couldn&#8217;t write an entry in this blog at the time as I found myself many leagues from the good burghers of internet commerce.  I thought it would be an appropriate perspective to start two ten with: air that smells so good you want to gulp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Conversation with Michael Archer, Author of &#8216;Going Native&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/12/30/a-conversation-with-michael-archer-author-of-going-native/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Podcast]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this episode I had the good fortune to talk with UNSW professor and well known Australian author Michael Archer.  I talked with Michael about the harvesting of kangaroos among other things.  I begin the show by visiting the Darling Range Wildlife Shelter with volunteer Scott Jones to get up close with the kangaroos themselves.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Word from the Floor</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/12/17/a-word-from-the-floor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1354</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s me practicing my interview technique with a youth contingent from the Perth hills. This morning I met Scott Jones, part owner of Planet Video and volunteer wildlife carer, in Mt. Lawley.  We went to his house first of all, to pick up an injured Wattle Bird he’s been caring for in an aviary in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for Simplicity</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/11/28/searching-for-simplicity/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2009/11/28/searching-for-simplicity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past two weeks I have been wandering around the south-west of Australia searching for moments of wildness, beauty and simplicity.  I found them. Sitting by the fire with the firelight glowing on the lower trunk of an old leaning peppermint above, with my book on my lap, and the entrance to my mia-shaped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cabane des Naturels</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/11/03/cabane-des-naturels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1307</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I and my friend Gilliane left Western civilization in our dust.  We drove south along the foothills of the Darling Range.  Around a 100kms south we veered left up into the scarp and the granite and the jarrah.  We stopped at a view point and we were here, soon standing on a titanic and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>350 in Perth</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/10/24/350-in-perth/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2009/10/24/350-in-perth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well the whole world has been making the numbers 350 in various ways today.  Here&#8217;s what we did in Perth, Australia&#8230; This morning we first formed a critical mass of bikes riding through the centre of our city, causing cars to stop and make way for our smiling bicycle gang. That&#8217;s Tim Hemsley, the brains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look down and then stand up</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/10/19/look-down-and-then-stand-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fremantle just elected Brad Pettitt as mayor, a man who means what he says when he talks environmental protection.  I got to shake his hand on Saturday night and pay my respects.  But for those of us who care about the natural world, most of Fremantle is urban (which is not to say that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spider Orchid and the Road</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/10/04/the-spider-orchid-and-the-road/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2009/10/04/the-spider-orchid-and-the-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Swamp Spider Orchid, or Caladenia paludosa. This morning I went to walk around some damplands vegetation in Forrestdale (south-east of Fremantle near Armadale) with the folks from Perth’s Wetlands Conservation Society. This Spider Orchid is beautiful, but its kind isn’t as safe around Perth as they used to be. This is the second most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Beginnings</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/09/26/small-beginnings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1235</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This month I&#8217;ve started to prepare a series of lesson plans on Western Australia&#8217;s environmental history for local high schools.  The sustainability NGO HotRock has commissioned me to do this.  So much bioregional awareness is missing from the minds of urban Australians, and it is a pleasure to be helping to restore some of it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark O&#8217;Conner on a Sustainable Population for Australia</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/09/02/mark-oconner-on-a-sustainable-population-for-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2009/09/02/mark-oconner-on-a-sustainable-population-for-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Podcast]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I talk with Paul Gamblin from WWF about the recent plan to build a massive gas plant on Barrow Island, a bastion for threatened Australian wildlife off the coast of north-west Australia.  Then in the second half of the show I discuss what it means for Australia to have a sustainable population with author Mark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understorey Now Available as a Podcast</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/09/01/understorey-now-available-as-a-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2009/09/01/understorey-now-available-as-a-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1185</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Outspoken in the West&#8230;. To mark the start of spring in 2009, Understorey, the environmental radio show I help to host on RTR 92.1 FM, is now available as a podcast.  Just follow this link to subscribe. The only environmental radio show in Western Australia, we regularly speak out for some of the inhabitants of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brad Pettitt: The Next Mayor of Fremantle</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/08/22/brad-pettitt-the-next-mayor-of-fremantle/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2009/08/22/brad-pettitt-the-next-mayor-of-fremantle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1173</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Brad Pettitt launched his campaign to become the next mayor of Fremantle.  I like a guy who launches his political campaign on a bike. When I was growing up in Freo in the 1980s the place was full of artists and bohemian types.  During the late 1990s and the 2000s I watched property prices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Seed Drops into Kulcha</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/08/22/john-seed-drops-into-kulcha/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The rain kept coming in thin misty sheets, but the air wasn’t cold. Walking through the woodland of flooded gums along the river a multitude of bird and frog songs came to our ears. The birds were clearly excited at the changing conditions of rain and then sun. A pair of Shelducks with orange-chests and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down on the Farm</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/08/07/down-on-the-farm-mimsbrook-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I left the south-west highway the feeling became much more rural. It is the middle of winter and all the rain has turned the fields a beautiful green. I’d driven for forty five minutes south-east of Fremantle. The sun was shining from a blue sky, and as I got out of the car to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last of the Wild in Perth</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/07/27/the-last-of-the-wild-in-perth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have two long black feathers, one tipped with a streak of scarlet red and the other with a flag of pure white, near me as I write.  The Nyoongar people sometimes wore such feathers in their head bands or on their arms.  For me I will keep these near me as a symbol of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The land was ours before we were the land&#8217;s.</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/07/09/the-land-was-ours-before-we-were-the-lands/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2009/07/09/the-land-was-ours-before-we-were-the-lands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This flower from a Banksia ilicifolia tree, endemic to south-west Australia, was something I noticed in the woodland around North Lake.  It is the flower of one of Perth&#8217;s most special trees.  This flower will soon turn pink and then red.  The Western Spinebill, one of my favourite birds in Perth, likes to come and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Helicopter Over Suburbia</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/07/08/a-helicopter-over-suburbia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1110</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In suburbia many aspire to brick and tile. Busy and benighted, donning the blindfold of activity all the long day through. Each night the citizens retire.  Recline.  Lift the blindfold for a moment, and then catch&#8230; slant cant, on a screen. What is this thing called life? Silence.  No, wait, I can hear a noise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wungong Gorge to Forrestdale Lake: Wanderings</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/07/05/wungong-gorge-to-forrestdale-lake-wanderings/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2009/07/05/wungong-gorge-to-forrestdale-lake-wanderings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1091</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has rained a lot recently, or so it seems to me.  And yet in fact the first half of 2009 has been much drier than average in Perth, in line with this corner of the world getting less and less rainfall as global climate change takes its toll. Political weather…  Now we’re moving into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photographs of the Known Unknown.</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/06/20/photographs-of-the-known-unknown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1078</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A glimpse of a misty and mysterious paddy field in southern China, a place most of you will never visit.  This photograph, and the two that follow, were taken over the last few months by my mother.  She recently returned from a trip that wound through south-east Asia, China, Mongolia, Siberia, Russia, Scandinavia, western Europe, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Journal Article Out</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/06/05/new-journal-article-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1071</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a new journal article just out.  It is called &#8216;Introduction to the Post-Pastoral in Australian Poetry&#8217;.  It recounts my search for realistic and celebratory visions of us living with nature in Australia in Australian poetry. As you&#8217;ll see I did have some luck finding such visions, but it took some searching. Have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White Australia</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/05/25/white-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 16:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1066</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This photo is of a cousin mine.  It was taken many years ago in Carnarvon in north-west Australia. I share it with the you because I find it symbolic of white Australians learning about the life of this land, and becoming native.  In becoming truly Australian we must know this land, and bring stewardship and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stand Tall Fremantle</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/05/17/stand-tall-fremantle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 09:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1063</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I got up, after plenty of partying last night, and the sun was shining on the town.  I rode my bike into Fremantle, wearing my Vote Greens t-shirt.  I didn&#8217;t have any reason to be downtown.  I just cruised along with a smile on my face, watching the pedestrians pass by on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three men in a boat.</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/05/11/three-men-in-a-boat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 09:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1053</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I, my friend Danny and my dad went out on my dad’s boat to Garden Island to do some snorkeling.  It was a calm, sunny May day on Cockburn Sound, and spirits were high. We piled our sundry gear into the bottom of the little wooden boat and lowered it into the water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the point in writing about nature?</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/04/14/what-is-the-point-in-writing-about-nature/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2009/04/14/what-is-the-point-in-writing-about-nature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1049</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people write about nature in a way that goes beyond scientific observation.  These writers merge history, anthropology, ecology and personal emotional reactions and associations in their work.  This kind of thing constitutes a genre of creative nonfiction about the natural world. But what is the point of such writing?  Why bother producing it? Hmm&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walking Further into the Valley at Serpentine Falls</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/04/10/walking-further-into-the-valley-at-serpentine-falls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon I organized a group of friends to go to Serpentine Falls in a national park south-east of Perth.  We were going to swim in the hot autumn weather. It took about an hour to get there and, then, finally we entered a valley coming out of the Darling Scarp.  There was a dramatic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Up Side We Have: Life</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/03/20/on-the-up-side-we-have-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American poet Jane Hirshfield is the author of the following poem. Optimism More and more I have come to admire resilience, Not the simple resistance of a pillow whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, But the sinuous tenacity of a tree Finding the light newly blocked on one side It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karakamia: Visiting Australia&#8217;s Past and Maybe its Future</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/03/12/karakamia-visiting-australias-past-and-maybe-its-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karakamia&#8230;.  275 hectares owned and managed by the conservation NGO the Australian Wildlife Conservancy.  One hour&#8217;s drive east of Perth in the Darling Ranges.  In Nyoongah, the original language around here:  Karak: cockatoo.  Mia: home. Last night I was there. After arriving we passed through an electronic gate, and past the electrified wire fence that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Perth</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/03/02/the-story-of-perth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sketch by Richard Ffarington was done along the edge of the Swan River in the 1840s (from Ffarington&#8217;s Folio: South West Australia 1843-1847, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1986, p.26).  It is a very rare glimpse into what Perth has meant for humans for the vast majority of the time humans have been here. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Conversation About Aboriginal Perth with Sylvia Hallam</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/02/23/a-conversation-about-aboriginal-perth-with-sylvia-hallam/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2009/02/23/a-conversation-about-aboriginal-perth-with-sylvia-hallam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I visited author Sylvia Hallam at her apartment in Nedlands near UWA and talked with her about human life as it was first lived in south-west Australia.  Here is the podcast.]]></description>
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		<title>Bagarap Empire</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/02/18/bagarap-empire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=957</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bagarap Empire is a phrase I have borrowed from Fred Smith, a Canberra-based musician who I met last weekend at KULCHA in Fremantle.  Fred has worked in Papua New Guinea and knows that in pidgin &#8216;bagarap&#8217; means &#8216;to go wrong&#8217; (i.e. the root in English would be to bugger up).  My reason for choosing these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fremantle Wildlife</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/02/13/fremantle-wildlife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=1004</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The last few days in Fremantle have been very, very hot – too hot!  The hot suburbs of a Perth suburb in February are enough to make anybody vapid.  The other night I rode my bike down to Bather’s Beach, a beach in the middle of Fremantle.  I was alone and I trod across the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yatungka and Warri</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/01/24/yatungka-and-warri/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I live in the south-west corner of Australia.  The Nyungar people in this area spoke a mutually intelligible language, and unlike the people out in the more arid parts to the north and east, did not practice circumcision.  The bioregion in the south-west corner of Australia can be considered as fitting into a space on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rottnest &#8211; Progress on a Beautiful Island</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/01/16/rottnest-progress-on-a-beautiful-island/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2009/01/16/rottnest-progress-on-a-beautiful-island/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=950</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rottnest is an island offshore from Perth in Western Australia.  It is about 10kms long and at its widest about 4kms wide.  The island has never been a place of Aboriginal inhabitation.  It was wooded to the north and east before white people arrived. Some of the more windswept parts were originally heath however.  Quokkas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wash the Mind of Foolishness</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/01/15/wash-the-mind-of-foolishness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contented minutes. Cloud-trafficked sky. Mind rippled wind. Face the blue lucidity. Have a near-life experience in the ocean. Wash the mind of foolishness.]]></description>
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		<title>myspace/bytomwilson</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2009/01/02/myspacebytomwilson/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2009/01/02/myspacebytomwilson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=945</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just created a myspace site.  In doing so I wanted to put together a little slideshow that hinted at my sense of place living as I do in south-western Australia.  The slideshow hints at my philosophy of anti-materialism, bioregionalism, E.O. Wilson-like wonder at the diversity of species of life on earth. So&#8230; Happy New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fading Light Over the Swan</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2008/12/22/fading-light-over-the-swan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tmwilson.org/?p=889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a map drawn by Captain James Stirling in 1827, when the captain was exploring the area prior to setting up the Swan River Settlement of British immigrants in 1829.  Click on the above map and it will enlarge so you can read it better. Kallip is an old Nyungar word meaning &#8216;a knowledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian Government Gives Up on Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://tmwilson.org/2008/12/16/australian-government-gives-up-on-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://tmwilson.org/2008/12/16/australian-government-gives-up-on-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian federal government yesterday released its plans to reduce carbon pollution by 5% by 2020 (compared to 2000 levels).  I thought that after eleven years of conservatives in parliament house in Canberra, that this year, with a brand new government, would be a turning point.  I was wrong.  I, and many other Australians, have [...]]]></description>
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