The film (movie) Food,Inc was produced in the U.S.A. and released in 2009, and is about to be released in Australia (next week – 20th May). Food,Inc. is especially relevant in the U.S.A. – the home of rubbish takeaway foodchains and an obesity epidemic (though not to suggest that we’re all Olive Oils here in […]
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FOOD,INC film – let’s hope the vegetarian barrow-pushers don’t overshadow the important message
May 10th, 2010Volcanic eruption – Iceland’s Mount Eyjafjallajokull
April 16th, 2010The current volcanic eruption in Iceland which began last month and has now resulted in clouds of ash interfering with air travel, is a timely reminder that however much the activity of human beings affects the earth, volcanic eruptions beat it hands down. This volcano is located under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier and apparently it erupted […]
Preserving Australian Rural Heritage & the ICOMOS conference
March 16th, 2010Australian – International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) is the peak body for Australian professionals who work in heritage conservation. This year the annual conference theme is ‘Outback & Beyond – The Future of Historic Towns, Industrial Heritage & Pastoralism’. The upcoming conference will be in Broken Hill (far western NSW), 22-25 April 2010. […]
Recycling paper & envelopes
March 16th, 2010The latest fashion is to include ‘Please consider the environment before printing this email’ on the bottom of emails. To me the most likely effect of this is to simply make the printed email take up more paper than it otherwise would (along with those mile-long legal disclaimers), while giving the sender a perfectly pointless […]
Global warming & climate change sceptics – Jennifer Marohasy
March 12th, 2010Two of the most thought-provoking and interesting blogs I’ve come across are by female Australian scientists, both with years of experience working in scientific fields. One website belongs to Western Australian Jo Nova, and the other to Queenslander Jennifer Marohasy. Jennifer spent her early years on the family farm near Darwin, and has lived in […]
Global Warming & Climate Change Sceptics (skeptics) – Jo Nova
March 11th, 2010Anyone interested in the climate change/global warming debate should visit Joanne Nova’s website. Joanne has a science degree in molecular biology and has worked in a variety of science-related fields, including as an associate lecturer in science at the ANU and in the media; is author of The Skeptics* Handbook, and producer of cartoons and […]
Garden watering advice & native plants
March 2nd, 2010Yuruga Native Plant Nursery, at Walkamin on the Atherton Tableland ( far north Queensland), has the most sensible garden watering advice I’ve read. Watering plants thoroughly but as infrequently as possible would seem like common sense, to encourage healthy root growth (and thus, drought and wind-tolerate plants) and avoid wasting water. Unfortunately with shrinking backyards, […]
Dumping Nuclear Waste in the Bush & BNI
February 28th, 2010Read the latest on government intentions to dump nuclear waste in the bush at the ‘Beyond Nuclear Initiative’ (BNI) blog. Depressing stuff, and indicative of how our Federal Government views remote Australia. Logically, nuclear waste should be stored as close to where it is created as possible, to minimise transport distances and associated spillage and […]
Beef importation from countries with BSE (‘Mad Cow’ disease)
February 26th, 2010Who voted for a Government so utterly stupid, that they have decided to relax Food Safety rules and allow the importation of beef from countries that have had BSE (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy – otherwise known as ‘mad cow disease’)? No Australians have been inflicted with the BSE-related variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) and no Australian […]
‘Iconic landscapes’ – another exercise in wasting taxpayer’s money
February 26th, 2010Today I stumbled upon ‘Iconic Landscapes’.Quoting the home page: “A group of researchers representing the Sciences and Arts at the University of Sydney have been funded by the University’s Institute for Sustainability to conduct a study looking at how communities value the environment and understand local environmental challenges and their options to overcome them.They are […]