TThe Introduction is a topography to this very complex field of study, where artists, enthusiasts, inventors, activists, technolo- gists, hackers, ecologists and scientists are all simultaneously re- sponding to the climate changes of the technology industries and the environmental market place of human interactions. For some, this section will be sufficient. The complexities hinted are unrav- eled in eight chapters, taking cuts through the data and enabling the reader to experience from the inside the magnitude of our mediated effect on each other and the planet we call home. Though the interesting notion of SCOT (social construction of technology) is introduced, realistically we know the world is oth- erwise, that the biodiversity of which we are a part is directly af- fected by the abstract notions of ‘growth’ and ‘profit’. Equally the core of that biodiversity remains unseen, at the micro level and in the sense of experiencing what the environment is, as opposed to our representations of it, real and imagined. Mediated idealism of the natural world across the Asia-Pacific regions affect attitudes:

to what is actually happening; to established cultural tradition from a time of regard for the land; to the incursion of globalised culture and to alternatives now past the use by date, such as bush walks and city farms as sampling activities in danger of skirting the is- sues. Investigations of ecological matters is here less about the physical and organic world, concentrating fundamentally on an ecology of practices now in the past and already becoming re- placed.

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