# Tim Curran

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Jim Provenzano & Tim Curran - Now I'm Here

“It’s people like Mama and me, I guess, who like to make the regular happenings in our town—like what happened to Joshua and David—sound like myth. There are those who doubt the veracity of my words. But I know. I was there.” So begins the voice of Eric Gottlund in Jim Provenzano’s latest novel, No…

Saluda Grade Trail; Police Foundation Support Officers and Black History Month (Ep 352)

Just the Truth February is Black History month and joining us today is my good friend JR from Westminster who, as a black conservative, gives his take on this nationally recognized month.  We know the success of the Swamp Rabbit Trail connecting Greenville with Travelers Rest and other areas.  Th…

Fire, Flora, and Flammability - A Conversation with Associate Professor Tim Curran

In this episode of Nature Conversations, I speak with Associate Professor Tim Curran, a plant ecologist specialising in plant flammability and extreme disturbance events like fire, drought, and cyclones. Tim discusses his work on measuring plant flammability and how plant traits influence fire beha…

Rewilding In Action - 16 - Fight Fire with a Green Firebreak - Dr Tim Curran

When forests are young, flammable species like manuka, kanuka and gorse dominate. To reduce the risk of fire, an effective tool is to plant a native green firebreak between our homes and our naturally rewilding forest. What’s a green firebreak? What species should we plant? How wide should the fire…

REX Sep 29 - Tim Curran from Lincoln University, Callum Eastwood from the Int Precision Dairy Farming Conference and North Canterbury farmer Jim Sidey

On today's REX Daily Podcast, Dom talks with Associate Professor Tim Curran from Lincoln University about his research into how plants respond to extreme disturbance events such as fire, drought, frost and cyclones, his recent focus on identifying low flammability species to plant as green firebrea…

Tim Curran - Firebreaks & Plant BBQs

Dom talks with Associate Professor Tim Curran from Lincoln University about his research into how plants respond to extreme disturbance events such as fire, drought, frost and cyclones, his recent focus on identifying low flammability species to plant as green firebreaks and how using a 'plant BBQ'…

All Hail the New Flesh • Reading Splatterpunk Zine #1

Welcome to a little series where I get into each issue of the unparallelled zine, Splatterpunk. Started in 2012 by editor Jack Bantry, it is going strong today and we eagerly anticipate the next issue. While I don’t go in-depth, nor do I show page by page to preserve the copyright of the owners and…

#204: He Sold a Majority, Gave Up Control, and Became Indispensable - Matthew Bullis

Matthew Bullis grew up in a mud-brick hut with no running water on a small island off South Korea, was adopted to the US at 11 speaking no English. After a dot-com near-miss, he took over his brother's struggling concrete-pumping software — down to about $20,000 a year — for 90% of the company. He …