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Welcome to Philip Tattersall who joins the e-seminar today. Philip is an environmental activist working and researching in Tasmania. His latest book is "Beyond 'No!': Reflections and lessons from 36 years experience as a scientist and environmental activist" (2009, Tasmania; Resource Publications). Philip writes: "I am seeking to bring change by promoting inclusiveness and a sense of support through celebration of what I call possibility......And that involves innovation so that the citizenry can have its say, can undertake its inquiry and publish its views and discoveries. All a challenge to the orthodox channels such as learned journals. That’s why we created the Upper Catchment Issues Tasmania Journal. I and my colleagues in TCRA are facilitating the development of the inquiring community. Tasmania we say is a special case and we build understanding within that context. My story is about and of that! My current institution here in Australia struggles with my idea to tell the within and without through a self narrative with me as a special case within a special case – seeking to change the outer (Tasmanian Activism) it wound up changing the inner (me), which then propelled further changes and revelations.....inner and outer. But the resistance of the ‘outer’ is such that my work is poorly appreciated by the environmental institutions themselves, mostly because what I am on about is so different to the current methods that have been shaped by the dominant culture ( a strange attractor?)." You can appreciate Philip's idea of community audit in environmental activism in the Upper Catchment Issue at: http://www.jackwhitehead.com/tattersall/ucv4n1.pdf Philip - looking forward to your participation in the e-forum Love Jack.