home remedies

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 a [...]

Could the tide really be turning?

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Tony de Marco Well, I never thought I’d live to see the day, but this year Sao Paulo, the world’s fourth largest metropolis, has actually banned outdoor advertising and, it seems, Beijing is starting to do the same. This is an excerpt from an article in Adbusters :

Frugality as the new generosity

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Wow it’s been so cold this weekend. These ferns haven’t been burnt by bushfires they’ve been burnt by frost.

Mastitis, conjunctivitis, & fed-up-with-the-media-itis

Friday, July 6th, 2007

One-eyed Cy There’s more to global warming than meets the eye – like the less obvious ramifications of the floods in Gippsland: lots of containers of toxic chemicals getting washed into the floodwaters and turning them into a toxic soup – great for dairy country and the food chain; and what about the poor dairy [...]