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 4.5 TRILLION cigarette butts tossed world wide which end up in waterways and oceans, leaking traces of 4000 toxic chemicals found in cigarette smoke and take 12 years to decompose. Read the rest of this entry »

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? Why should you care? Read the rest of this entry »

We often feel that as one person there is little we can do to help equalise the world, reduce the suffering and hardship of the poorest and most disempowered people in the 3rd world or do anything to stop wars or combat global warming. Read the rest of this entry »

Tom has an interest in killers and the macabre, a fascination with famous people and a calling toward music and digital art. He’s also a young man with Asperger’s and a fascinating one at that. Here’s our interview… Read the rest of this entry »

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 ways we could all be doing our part given its too gutless to enforce directions for us. So what could we be doing? Read the rest of this entry »

The world held its breath. Americans held hope. George Bush, the Texas cowboy, still somehow thinks he’s got it right when 70% of Americans are certain he’s wrong. Read the rest of this entry »

As a person with autism and an autism consultant, I was often asked by parents of children with autism and PDD whether I had poor muscle tone. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s a lot of controversy about what a dag is and many people mistakenly confuse Dags with Bogans. Bogans are Bogans. Dags are Dags. Just as some Geeks are Trekkies (but not all), and some Goths and Punks are also Emos (but certainly not all) some Dags are also Bogans but most Bogans don’t qualify as Dags. Lost? Then read on and it’ll become clear as mud. Read the rest of this entry »

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http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=27926

Questioning the money spinners and the stereotypes they perpetuate.

Sure, I’m an author in that field, I’ve been a consultant for 12 years in that field, a lecturer for 14 years and I put the word autistic in association with my name which I feel humanises the condition and raises its public profile, paving the way hopefully for the belief in the potential of others with the same diagnosis. So when is autism being exploited for business purposes? Its a good question and a majorly important one. Read the rest of this entry »