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'Creatures that fly, trot and swim'

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Peer-reviewed scientific literature includes:
Population
Food security
Conflict and climate change

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Startled awake: the nature of engagement
Ban banksters, reach for the sun
Fools, food and fuel

What's he up to now? Where is he?

Colin and Yeow Foo Ng
Colin sighting: with Yeow Foo Ng at Chiangi aiport, Singapore, September, 2011

2011

September. Doctors for the Environment Australia (http://dea.org.au/ ) members Drs Nick Towle and Nick Cooling recently presented a workshop on the role of Tasmanian doctors in inspiring public health advocacy and activism to all 120 first-year medical students at the University of Tasmania. The three people featured were BODHI's medical director, Associate Professor Colin Butler (who worked for many years in Tasmania in clinical medicine) before gaining full-time work in public health), Dr Alison Bleaney (whose does much to highlight the risk of environmental toxins to health) http://www.abc.net.au/austory/specials/somethingwater/default.htm and Dr Jim Markos, a respiratory physician who has done much to raise awareness of air pollution in Launceston, in the Tamar Valley http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2004/s1128403.htm. Over the years, both Alison and Jim have been supportive of BODHI.

August. Your Medical Director is on The Conversation, along with a link to his article, 'What will a four-degree climate rise mean for world health?'

Colin's talk on living in harmony with the oceans

Will Yaryan and Colin, Bangkok, May, 2011

May. Colin was the chief moderator of the environmental panel at the annual conference of the United Day of Vesak in Bangkok, Thailand. Conference delegates crafted the Bangkok Declaration which, among other things, acknowledges the interconnectedness of the planet and urges the international community and governments to work towards eliminating poverty and economic injustice.

In his closing remarks, Colin noted some actions that are being expressed globally, such as the Earth Charter as an accessible set of principles for environmental preservation and restoration and the development and global use of new sources of alternative energy.