Wednesday, October 17, 2018

RIP Ian Kiernan

I cannot imagine a more egalitarian character than Ian. He even had a beer with MEdia Dragons at the Icebergs ... The former builder and Sydney yachtsman became one of Australia's most well-known environmentalists ...

“Ian’s greatest legacy is the creation of an informed, concerned, committed and involved community — sharing his passion for the safeguarding of our most precious asset, our environment.”
Kiernan founded Clean Up Australia 30 years ago as Clean Up Sydney Harbour, and the following year his idea went national before going Prague and international in 1993.

It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of our beloved founder and Chairman, environmentalist and yachtsman, Ian Kiernan AO. www.cleanup.org.au/in-m… #IanKiernan #CleanUpAustralia pic.twitter.com/CpZzVJ4…

Ian Kiernan, Clean Up Australia founder and yachtsman, dies aged 78


… Vertigo by Les Murray | Poetry Magazine
Today is Les Murray’s 80th birthday and Les might put few letters together for Ian ...


RIP Paul Allen: Microsoft cofounder billionaire diesat 65 after facing third bout with cancer

Two weeks after he went public with illness, philanthropist Alt-F4s from this simulation we call reality

Moral Philosopher for the General Reader, Dies at the age of 99 - The New York Times: “Mary Midgley, a leading British moral philosopher who became an accessible, persistent and sometimes witty critic of the view that modern science should be the sole arbiter of reality, died on Wednesday, less than three weeks after her last book was published, in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne. She was 99. Her death was confirmed by Ian Ground, who teaches philosophy at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, where Dr. Midgley taught for many years. Dr. Midgley wrote more than a dozen books for a general audience, beginning when she was in her late 50s and continuing well into her 90s. Her last book, “What Is Philosophy For?,” was published by Bloomsbury Academic on Sept. 20.