Hovering on the borders between academic, government, activist and business communities is a lot of interesting ‘grey literature’ research and analysis on what people think, feel and do about sustainability.

My experience has been that amongst this diversity, it can be hard to access and keep track of relevant material. Also challenging is finding material relevant to a specific geographic area like Australia, or Victoria. More broadly, there is far more material out there about what people should do as opposed to what they actually do, and even less on evidence based material on ways to influence that.

This site aims to collect and analyse evidence based material relevant to Australia and Victoria. This in preference over ’shoulds’ or international materials, except for particularly thought provoking docs or fills a gap in locally relevant material.

I also hope to encourage constructively critical engagement with the posted materials. Whether or not peer review has taken place in many publications is rarely clear, and almost never transparent to broader audiences. Perhaps more significantly, as this is generally knowledge produced with the intent of planning and evaluating polices and programs, and influencing decision makers, the peer review community can and should extend beyond academia (i.e. to practitioners, business, policy, community, activists and so on). Blogs like this one have the potential encourage discussion and broaden access for such an extended peer community.

I hope to share and discuss the interesting materials which I’ve found already, and encourage people enjoying the blog to send me things that catch their eye. Generally speaking, I’ll only post items on this blog that I’ve read, believe have have some evidential basis and have something interesting to say.