Julia in CoalExportLand
This morning Julia Gillard made her major pre-election address on the subject of climate change. For reasons best known to her advisers, she chose to give the speech in Queensland on a university...
View ArticleBubble rings
Made at Seaworld in Orlanda Florida and posted on YouTube last year, this video shows a never previously recorded skill which has developed like a cultural tradition within the group of dolphins who...
View ArticleThe Greening of America c 2010
This land could be your land! This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York Island From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me....
View ArticleIsrael’s burning bush
A tragedy is a tragedy, wherever it happens. Fire raging out of control, while it’s part of the natural cycle in many parts of the world, can be terrifying by any measure. According to reports, 40...
View ArticleClimate change debate: it’s really about RISK
It must have at least two decades since British environmentalist Norman Myers articulated this memorable advice: “If we live as if it matters and it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter. If we live as if...
View ArticlePolar privacy
There’s no need to put up with unrequested 24×7 surveillance. This family of polar bears shows the way.Possibly Related Posts:Pine Gap and a dubious Cairns peace activistFour dimensions of Australian...
View ArticleDepleted Uranium in Libya: do the Australian Greens even care?
The question of whether Depleted Uranium is being used in Libya has been a sensitive issue from the outset – and an issue raised by alternative media from the onset of NATO bombing. Although DU weapons...
View ArticleThis summer, make peace the focus!
From Athens to Madrid, Dublin to Tbilisi, Wisconsin to Cairo, people are restive and revolt is in the air. They each have local issues of course, but there are common threads. There’s a widespread...
View ArticleA rhyming organic tip
Worm The worm will work all day and night And all the morning too To make your soil nice and light Which makes your blueberries blue The worm, so thin and yet quite long Is prone to elongation Although...
View ArticleThe Road to Hell
Stood still on a highway I saw a woman By the side of the road With a face that I knew like my own Reflected in my window Well she walked up to my quarterlight And she bent down real slow A fearful...
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