How many of us wish to reduce toxins in the food chain, save wildlife, reduce the pollution of our waterways? Yes many of those same people flush perfume and bleach down their sinks, baths, showers and toilets every day. Among the average ten toxins contained in perfume almost all synthetic perfumes contain […]
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A recent article in The Age, shocked me with its findings. 240 million cigarette butts a year are washed down storm water drains and end up in Melbourne’s water ways and finally Port Phillip Bay. They are part of the 7.2 billion cigarette butts tossed in Australia each year, part of an estimated […]
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Someone’s birthday? Christmas, Valentines Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day or other festivity? Thinking of spending your hard earned cash on something that may only clutter, support unethical corporates, support exploitative establishments and hideous regimes, come with environmental toxins and useless packaging which taxed the earth’s resources or contributed to global warming? […]
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OK, so the Australian government doesn’t seem to care much about generations 20-50 years from now who will be faced with the economic and climatic catastrophes relating to global warming and the end of affordable petrol and is more concerned spending tax payer dollars doing public self back patting and image management than advertising simple […]
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The local paper isn’t usually the place one expects riveting news but I was this week it was.
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With the new government proposal to phase out incandescent light bulbs, what about those on the autism spectrum with the visual perceptual processing challenge of Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome who struggle to concentrate, read and learn under fluorescent lighting?
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This year, 2007 is an election year.
Yes, the Australian public did vote Howard, back into power twice in a row. Its that same voting public which says little to stop housing refugee children in ‘mandatory detention centres’ (sometimes for years) where rape, violence and subsequent mental illness is common. It’s that […]
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We’re looking after a tawny frogmouth (yes, looks like a Furby so now he’s called Furby and, no, he is NOT an owl, they are related to Nightjars, not owls) this Christmas after it fell from a nest and was hand raised by my friend. The rescue services she called said they had […]
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Its summer here in Australia in December. It’s fire season, people run about in shorts and T shirts and suburbia is yet again putting snowman illuminations, velvet and fur clad Santas, designer Christmas trees with fake spray snow, ordering Turkey and cranberry sauce and
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So maybe you live under a rock and don’t know much about this Global Warming thing or maybe you’re so transfixed by politicians hypnotising you with threats of terrorism to think about the real far bigger threat to us all.
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