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Paul Stamets & Magic Mushrooms – the web of life

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Mycelium on decomposing log (photo by Dr. George Knaphus)
Every now and then it is possible to learn something so huge it can almost blow your mind away. Last year it was the severity of global warming. Today, in our permaculture class, it was finding out about Paul Stamets and his theory that mushrooms [...]

Leave no footprint

Friday, June 29th, 2007

“Leave No Footprint” by Kay Singleton Keller
I’ve been so surprised … each day I’ve been finding one other action I can take to reduce my “footprint” and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying myself doing it … until today. I spent the night in a Motel in Blayney in freeeeeeeeeeeeeezing cold. The Motel was lovely but, [...]

Like a patient etherised upon a table …

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Anne Wallace
I’ve spent my life working in the arts. Making the shift in this last year to learning about, and trying to protect the environment, is a surprisingly similar endeavour. The environment is extraordinarily beautiful (until it is ripped apart by mines). The difference between working in the arts, or focussing on global warming and [...]

Start now and avoid the rush

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

This morning I woke to discover that all my veges had disappeared under snow. I didn’t really mind – it was so beautiful. The thing that did bother me was reading the debate between Clive Hamilton and George Monbiot and watching the replay of last night’s Lateline Business interview on Peak Oil.
When Lateline’s [...]

Less Gas More Ass

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

Thank goodness the storms have stopped today. I simply couldn’t bring myself to even think about the naked bike riders yesterday in the sort of weather we were having. You can read about them here: Cyclists bared all to protest car culture Having taken my own bike out for its inaugural ride recently [...]

I believe

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Credo
by Helen Caldicott
I believe that women have the fate of the Earth in the palm of their hands. Some 53 per cent of us are women and we really are pretty wimpish. We don’t step up to the plate – and it’s time we took over. I think men have had their turn and we’re [...]

I shop therefore I am

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

In the past whenever things got a bit rough I resorted to retail therapy. This poster by Barbara Kruger was on my wall twenty years ago. Shopping, however, no longer holds the same allure because the price tag has gone up so steeply. Shopping = money + planet + childrens’ future. Nevertheless, while I [...]

Refusing to sleepwalk into the apocalypse

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

This is what Maxie spent a whole afternoon doing … it is one of the divine things that children do when you least expect it. He did it because it was an enjoyable thing to do and because he thought it might make me happy … it was an act of love … love [...]

Envirowarriors young and old, are rising from their slumber & gathering their forces

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Today I spent the day away from the computer (I got my wish!) attending gatherings of people from every part of the community wanting action on Climate Change. The first was a huge community consultation organised by Blue Mountains City Council which is part of The Cities For Climate Protection Programme.
It was to review [...]

Speed limits, not targets

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

 

How wonderful it would be if all old cars could be rescued from landfill and made into survival gardens like this one. The inside could be like a mini-glass house! I have a fantasy that one day I’ll be so fit that I’ll be able to make a garden with mine instead of [...]

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