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Thursday, June 25th, 2009As I well know, it’s one thing to know how to do something but another thing to actually do it! On June 11th I set myself the challenge of gardening as if my life depended on it and since then I’ve been harvesting something from the garden every day. It had seemed as though it [...]
Gardening as if my life depended on it
Thursday, June 11th, 2009There is a most overwhelming smell that fills the air when nasturtiums die. Last night the temperature got down to -2.5C and my beautiful nasturtiums all collapsed. I checked my post last year and the photo is almost identical – the only difference this year is that the frost came 10 days later than it [...]
Sequester Water AS WELL AS Carbon!
Thursday, February 26th, 2009“What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet”
David Suzuki
The distribution of atmospheric water vapor, a significant greenhouse gas, varies across the globe. During the summer and fall of 2005, this visualization shows that most vapor collects at tropical latitudes, particularly over south Asia, where monsoon thunderstorms [...]
Shop Damn It Shop & Mercurio’s Menu
Saturday, January 17th, 2009I’m intrigued by the serendipitous nature of how knowledge spreads and how this knowledge can then alter collective consciousness. Take this photo for example. I first saw it on Reuters then went looking for a bigger file that I could download. Found it on the Carfree Tokyo Blogspot where I also found a Warning to [...]
The Great Purge
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009Well, everyone might be talking about the Greater Depression but all I can think about is the Great Purge – from detoxing to decluttering. And oh how every part of me wants to resist it. To give you some idea …. for months I’ve been collecting toilet rolls to use as planting tubes. This is [...]
Warrigal Greens and Rockpools
Thursday, January 8th, 2009We’re at the beach – the same beach we were at 3 years ago when we all started reading Tim Flannery’s “The Weathermakers”. You certainly can’t help pondering on life and its vagaries as you watch the tide move inexorably in and out each day, and as you gaze across the surging waters that link [...]
2009 International Reconciliation Year
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Goodbye International Year of the Potato, Hello Year of International Reconciliation …. not to mention International Year of Human Rights Learning, International Year of Natural Fibres, International Year of Astronomy and International Year of Planet Earth. What a tragedy that this Year of International Reconciliation is kicking off with Israel attacking Gaza and killing [...]
OUR NRMA – and let’s keep it that way!
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008(Double click to enlarge this image)
Boy have I got the shits! I can’t believe the power of the NRMA Board Directors. It turns out they’re the most powerful transport lobby group in NSW because of OUR money, and they’ve now come out against cycleways … not to mention cancelling the vehicle inspection service, cancelling free [...]
There have not “always been” this many starving people
Sunday, April 20th, 2008VIENNA (Reuters) – Global food price rises are leading to “silent mass murder” and commodities markets have brought “horror” to the world, the United Nations’ food envoy told an Austrian newspaper on Sunday.
Jean Ziegler, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, told Kurier am Sonntag that growth in biofuels, speculation on commodities markets and [...]
Dill’s Atlantic Giant
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008This amazing heirloom pumpkin, a Dill’s Atlantic Giant, was grown in Bathurst by Keith Hungerford, and its brother or sister won a prize at the Bathurst Show! It then went on to be displayed at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney. The breed has produced the world’s largest pumpkin weighing in at 496kg. It took [...]
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