Horoscope

Yesterday, my horoscope in the Chronicle Herald, December 10th for Aquarius.

“What worked before won’t work going forward. It’s time to change your approach or way of thinking.”

I sent an email to Edward (who shares the same birthday as me). How about?

‘A Centre of Landscape Change and Monitoring’

I wonder whether we should retire COGS (Centre of Geographic Sciences). Instead focus on monitoring the land use, whether agriculture, forestry, mining or fisheries. We have the technology e.g. LiDAR, drones, satellite and aerial photography. It could include climate monitoring.

This thought relates to my latest reading and post ‘Why we remember’ by Charan Ranganath.

Let’s remember what caused us to convert from NSLSI to COGS. Clearly, it was related to changes in technology, e.g. computers, GIS software and now drones and AI.

However, the objective remains the same. How does society manage its relationship to the global environment?

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Connecting the resource and monitoring dots …
On the radio, I heard that the Bragg family is bidding on the purchase of the Scott Paper forested lands. I hope this will lead to reforestation. Perhaps, at the same time, they can clean up the debris from Tropical Storm Fiona.

These thoughts remind me of the days when Andrew, our son, would head west for the Summer to be part of the tree planting crews.