When is a holiday not a holiday? When it involves working and studying and throwing yourself head-first into a foreign culture and totally different economic reality. People keep asking me how...
Category: Adventures, Anecdotes, Education, Ethics, Institutions & infrastructure, Politics & society, Travel Tags: agriculture, developing world, entitlement culture, environmental awareness, environmentalism, food and nutrition, learning, personal growth, peru, political systems, pollution, poverty, social justice, south america, sustainability, sustainable development, trying to change the world, volunteering, working in other cultures
Chances are you heard about the severe bushfires that swept through Tasmania a couple of months ago. It was awful, a terrible combination of a hot dry summer and a day...
I’ve just returned home from a failed attempt to do my usual weekly produce shop down at my local farmer’s market. I go most every Sunday to buy my fruit &...
These last couple of weeks I’ve been feeling a little low. This time of year does it to me: I get over-scheduled, over-committed, under-slept, and with most folk getting busy with...
Category: Community, Ethics, Farming & food systems, Food & cooking, Gardening, Industry & agriculture, Lifestyle, Rants & raves Tags: agriculture, backyard farming, bartering, community, food security, food systems, Gardening, grow your own food, in my garden, independence from supermarkets, seasonal eating, sustainable food
Tasmanians, the Forest Peace Deal Agreement is going through the Upper House, where the legislation will either pass, or crash and burn with a huge loss of public faith and return...
Category: Community, Ethics, Extractive industries, Politics & society, Rants & raves Tags: activism, compromise, creating the future, environmental activism, environmental politics, forest peace talks, legislation, petition, sustainability, Tasmania, Tasmanian Forest Agreement, Tasmanian Government
11:00, 11/11/2012 They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and...
Category: Community, Politics & society Tags: death, Lest We Forget, poppy, reflection, Remembrance Day, war
Can you believe it’s November already? November, when the weather finally warms up around here, the days grow long and the garden takes off. Time to plan for the summer and...
I love Tasmania’s forest. Happiness is a mountain-top or a myrtle forest in my world and I’ve spent many blissed-out hours walking through the mossy half-light of the old-growth forests that...
Category: Environmental economics, Extractive industries, Industry & agriculture, Politics & society, Rants & raves Tags: a way forwards, conservation, creating the future, economics, environmental activism, Florentine, forest peace talks, forestry, high conservation value, old growth forests, sustainable communities, Tarkine, Tasmanian economy, Tasmanian Forest Agreement, temperate rainforests
It’s time for another guest post! I believe we should hear from a range of different voices in the sustainability conversation: we have different perspectives, expertise and experiences and should learn...
There is nothing like travel to give you a heaping dose of perspective. We in the western developed world, the vast majority of us, anyway, are so damn spoilt. Here in...
Category: Environmental economics, Ethics, Lifestyle, Politics & society, Popular culture, Rants & raves, Travel Tags: consumerism, creating the future, developing world, electricity, environmental ethics, food, lessons from my travels, living simply, living small, materialism, mindfulness, poverty, resource use, shrinking your footprint, sustainability, travel, water
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