One of the strongest mental cravings that drew me to research is to spend time on synthesis. I love the complexity of seeing the connections in everything. As a person who tends to see the bigger picture in anything from pulling my car into a drop-off-zone with others in-front and behind me, or standing back…

I’m speeding through Writing your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks (Second Edition) by Wendy Laura Belcher. Speeding, because as a distance student it’s a three week flexible delivery loan. I may have to purchase the book rather than post it hundreds of kilometres back and forth, otherwise I may start confusing our friendly local postman…

I’ve been looking back into the origins and roots of the word ‘sustainability’, from German forestry practices, dating back to 1713. Through this, I found myself reading a 1664 book, Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees and the Propagation of Timber: Volumme 1 by John Evelyn which is alluded to be one of the…