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Strange Bedfellows: A New Era of Resilience and Uncertainty

26 February 2020

Australians are still reeling from the aftermath of the recent onslaught of fire, rain and floods, daily lives upended by…

Reflection

Neighbourhood Heat Stress Response: Reflections on a Community Focused Workshop

21 February 2020

In light of Australia’s hottest year on record, SEI researchers met with influential community members in a workshop dedicated to…

Opinion

From Denial to Resilience: The Slippery Discourse of Obfuscating Climate Action

20 February 2020

Christopher Wright and Michael E. Mann unveil the government’s illusive acknowledgement of a warming planet, questioning whether their actions will…

Opinion

When Fire Burnt (Some Of) the Boundaries

18 February 2020

Sydney Environment Institute researcher Danielle Celermajer returns with an update on Jimmy, her loyal rescue pig, whose tale of miraculous…

News

Thom van Dooren Ventures to Northern Lands for Exciting New Research

17 February 2020

University of Sydney Associate Professor Thom van Dooren has been appointed to a new position as a Professor II at…

Q&A

Thinking Beyond the Bushfires

14 February 2020

PhD candidate and Sydney Environment Institute research assistant Eva Perroni talks to PolisPlan directors, Steven Liaros and Nilmini De Silva,…

Reflection

Reflections on the 2020 Iain McCalman Lecture

11 February 2020

“The message from Dinesh was clear; the devastating impacts of the environmental crisis we have been experiencing in recent months…

Opinion

We Need to Take up the Burden of Remaking the World

10 February 2020

Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton consider how the past summer of drought and bushfire — and the rain that…

Opinion

Australia and Climate Change: A Collective Action Problem

10 February 2020

As Australia has burned in a climate emergency summer, our Prime Minister Scott Morrison has not only been untruthful about…

Q&A

Welcome Genevieve Wright, SEI’s New Events and Administrator Coordinator

10 February 2020

The Institute welcomes our new Events and Administrator Coordinator, Genevieve Wright. “For me, SEI is a figurehead in this battle…

Opinion

The End of the Beach

03 February 2020

At Mallacoota, Tamboon, and elsewhere, this summer’s unprecedented bushfires drove thousands to take shelter on the shore—and permanently transformed one…

Opinion

Fire, Storm, Flood, Blackout: Australia’s Electricity Sector Needs Better Disaster Response

23 January 2020

In the wake of unprecedented climate-induced disaster, Australia’s electricity sector urgently needs to learn from Con Edison’s response to Hurricane…

Q&A

Christine Dundas Joins the SEI Professional Staff Team

22 January 2020

The Institute welcomes our new Project and Communications Officer, Christine Dundas, who takes the reigns from Eloise Fetterplace who is…

News

Congratulations to Our 2019 Honours Research Fellows

17 January 2020

We are thrilled to congratulate Hal Conyngham, Lauren MacRae and Mark Bosch, our three amazing 2019 Honours Research Fellows, on receiving First…

Opinion

Learning to Live in a Shifted World

16 January 2020

Earlier this week SEI researcher Danielle Celermajer published a heartbreaking essay about returning to her property in the wake of…

Opinion

Greenhouse Gaslighting: Scott Morrison’s Emotional Manipulation From Climate Apathy to Fake Empathy

14 January 2020

The Prime Minister’s stalwart coal fetish has driven us into the arms of disaster, and his new stance, a flailing…

Opinion

A World of Ashes

09 January 2020

Fires incarnate in vivid ways the double meaning of the Anthropocene – an era of unprecedented human control and of its…

News

2020: The Climate Has Changed

08 January 2020

At the dawn of this new decade, few words sound so hollow as ‘Happy New Year’. Over the past few…

News

Sydney Environment Institute 2019: Our Year In Review

19 December 2019

After a huge twelve months, we reflect on a few of our favourite collaborations, from local sustainability initiatives to community…

News

Congratulations Eloise Fetterplace On Her New Baby Girl!

18 December 2019

Congratulations to our incredible Project and Communications Officer, Eloise Fetterplace, who welcomed her new baby Francesca Isla Chan last week.…

Opinion

Dinesh Wadiwel on Labour, Dominance and Animal Agriculture

12 December 2019

SEI Editor Liberty Lawson sits down with Dr Dinesh Wadiwel, who will be presenting the Iain McCalman Lecture in February…

News

Introducing New PhD Research Fellows Anna Sturman and Liberty Lawson

12 December 2019

Get to know the SEI’s two new PhD research fellows, Anna Sturman, from the Department of Political Economy, and Liberty…

Opinion

Knowledge Equity, Not Extraction: Reflections on Contemporary Injustice

09 December 2019

HDR students Anna Sturman, Blanche Verlie, Omar Elkharouf, Gemma Viney and Catherine Donnelley reflect on November’s masterclass workshop with visiting…

Opinion

MSJ Series: Georegional Justice from Legal Personhood to Democratic Agency

04 December 2019

SEI Researcher Christine Winter asks whether the frameworks that grant environments like Aotearoa’s Whanganui River legal personhood should include a…