Sol Hanna's Profile

I am a history and social sciences teacher at Perth Modern School. Apart from that I am co-convenor of the Fremantle-Tangney Greens, secretary of the Sustainable Transport Coalition, and a Linux + open source software user and fan. I am a practising Buddhist and former president of the BSWA.

I am interested in Buddhism,Reading,History,Yoga,Meditation,Open Source Software,Psychology,Current Affairs,Green Politics,Linux,Renewable Energy,Peak Oil,Volunteer Work,Gifted Education. My favorite music are Tom Waits,Explosions in the Sky,Red Snapper,This Will Destroy You,Saxon Shore,Colin Hay. Movies: Brazil,Star Wars,Delicatessen,Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,Donnie Darko,Return of the Jedi,City of Lost Children,Baraka,Das Boot,12 Monkeys,The Life of Brian,Empire Strikes Back,The Fellowship of the Ring,The Two Towers,Oh Brother Where Art Thou?,The Royal Tanenbaums,Lost in Translation,Return of the King,The Darjeeling Limited,Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,The Barbarian Invasions,V for Vendetta,Serial Lover,As Night Is Falling,Raise the Red Lantern,Farewell My Concubine. TV: I don't own a TV.. Books: Buddha,George Orwell,Jared Diamond,Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,Thomas Homer-Dixon,Daniel Gilbert,Ajahn Brahm,Philip K. Dick,JRR Tolkein,Noam Chomsky,Gabriel Garcia Marquez. My Heros are Siddhartha Gotama,Ajahn Chah,Ajahn Brahm,Mohandes Gandhi,Aung San Suu Kyi,Martin Luther King Jr,Bob Brown.

Member since Dec 23, 2008, follows 76 people, 9 public groups, 398 public bookmarks (428 total).