Dbytes #723 (17 June 2026)
News in environmental decision making
1. No to bringing back native forest logging
2. Bottom-Tow Fisheries Sustainability
3. Credentials Don’t Convince
4. Diverse discourses in landscape restoration
And more
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David Salt
The Age doesn't like women any more.
Waste managers laying waste... this is a story all over many different Countries... consultants lack transparency & ride roughshod over local interests with "solutions" that create more work (for them. It's a business model)
Is anyone else sick of the word "deal"? Not socially aware - just business-speak - but it has usurped everything from Geopolitics to supermarket catalogues... Inflated by media like this. Deals are sneaky. Negotiations for fair wages are news.
We have all become slaves servicing AI-driven "deals".
www.linkedin.com/pulse/degrow... A feisty commentary. ADD ALSO: cost *front* end of Great New Schemes dreamed up in distant boardrooms. Social cost is $0 to Board Room Team. So charge $$$ for waste "disposal" a real cost for all. Tips the balance in favour of restore/renovate/repurpose over raze.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... Here's a happy bird story from #Lorne, Victoria! Well done Men's Shed and many volunteers as well as a smart Council. We all need Bin Buddies too. They help with marauding humans as well. Cute birds survive humans again.
all fine if you are chatting among friends. But in writing, esp in headlines, it sets a tone. Swearing is a lazy filler - a more carefully chosen (and polite) word can do more work. When you don't know who is reading you, it's good to aim for max precision.
