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The Year of the Potato & the Doomsday Vault

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Today I stumbled across this amazing photograph taken by Maria Tefre for the Global Crop Diversity Trust. It’s of the Global Seed Vault being built into a mountainside cavern in Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen island around 1,000 km (600 miles) from the North Pole. Its goal is to store the world’s crop seeds in case of [...]

A bite of borage, a shot of courage

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Quick, before Monsanto gets hold of the seeds … get yourself a borage plant!
Pliny, and others throughout history, have attributed borage with giving people courage, driving away sadness and depression and lifting the spirits – just what we need to help us tackle global warming!
Pliny called the plant Euphrosinum, because it “maketh [...]

Genetically re-engineering myself

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

New Zealand anti-GM billboard

As ordinary Australian people are being so symbolically locked out of the APEC security zone (Australians Pushing Export Coal), John Howard and George Bush are busy making sure that “no billionaires are left behind”. It’s timely, then, as these billionaires gather, thinking they can determine our future, that the current Digger’s Club [...]

World Environment Day Celebrations

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Another month has rolled by and today we celebrated World Environment Day at our Community Market (a few days early). This Video was screened by the Mothers Climate Action Group at their stall. It’s a video made by Sharnie of the day we all gathered outside our Federal MP’s Office in Springwood (April [...]

China and bees

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

This morning I got up at the crack of dawn (for me that’s 7am … ha ha ha … obviously only a pretend farmer) … as I was saying, this morning I got up quite early and started picking rhubarb, herbs, nasturtium blossoms and tomatoes for the community market we’ve started at the school. Brian [...]

The era of procrastination … is coming to its close.

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.”
Sir Winston Churchill
November 12, 1936

Someone emailed me this great cartoon by Bruce Petty that says it all!