Archive for the 'environment' Category

meet, sit, talk and eat

Thursday, November 15, 2007 | 4 Comments

Since I’ve returned to Adelaide I’ve had opportunity to host a few guests as part of CouchSurfing, the program that introduced me to Sid, Ninnu, Ronja and a whole bunch of other lovely people. Regularly, conversation with my international visitors…

bird on a wire

Thursday, November 08, 2007 | 1 Comment

Over the last couple of years of drought, larger birds, more used to the Adelaide Hills and the outlying country areas have been moving into the leafy green/brown suburbs in search of water and food. Most importantly for this story,…

shiny and fast

Monday, October 29, 2007 | No Comments

I’ve got an admission to make, one which doesn’t sit very well with my treehugging, car-free, bike and public transport loving persona:

I really like fast shiny new cars and cool old gas guzzling cars from the 50s, super polluting aeroplanes…

speechless

Friday, October 19, 2007 | No Comments

“Gunns will pay a base price of nearly $16 a tonne for native timber and $32 for plantation timber with additional costs for road access, transport and harvesting.”
via abc.net.au

bright green things.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 | 3 Comments

Possibly the most fantastic and unexpected thing that happened at Aliese’s yesterday was that I discovered that her backyard is full of stinging nettles. Most people would balk at the idea of picking nettles for fun, but what I saw…

not wanted here

Monday, April 23, 2007 | 2 Comments

I suppose that by obsessively weeding I am procrastinating something. It’s true that I haven’t lodged my tax return from last financial year, and there are many other things I should be doing. Though weeding, and getting the garden growing…

The past is your present, the future is mine. (Confusion by New Order)

Monday, February 05, 2007 | 3 Comments

I’m no economist. I’m not a business person either. I’m just a modern day hippie who consumes and thinks about how she consumes. So, here are some thoughts about current responses to managing climate change:

Thought One:

Moving to more efficient and…