Welcome,
it is Thursday, October 18, 2018
you have found the personal site of Simon Pockley
'The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.' - Ross Perot
'The grounds for hope are in the shadows, in the people who are inventing the world while no one looks, who themselves don't know yet whether they will have any effect...In this epic struggle between light and dark, it's the dark side - that of the anonymous, the unseen, the officially powerless, the visionaries and subversives in the shadows - that we must hope for.' - Rebecca Solnit
Simon Pockley lives as a recluse in the Warrumbungle mountains in north-western N.S.W. Australia where he is rebuilding after a bushfire.
Otherwise engaged in:
- Tertiary sector: funding effectiveness evaluation, program analysis, research data management, electronic theses (ETD)
- Information management: data management, data visualisation, usability testing and the pragmatic application of metadata standards
- Bespoke fabrication: construction of unusual objects, buildings, theatre sets, furniture, and imaginative follies
- Sustainable living: water supply systems, stand alone power systems, grid connected solar (accredited), composting toilets and wood ovens
- Community engagement: Landcare and bottom-up community activism
Links to more information
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Wheoh: rebuilding in the Warrumbungles after bushfire
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Selected short films and videos
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Selected research papers, reports
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Red-faced resume (from a former life)
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The Flight of Ducks
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Pockley family materials (mainly historical)
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Sonnets
