So you feel sorry for the shopkeepers this Christmas if you don’t buy an A-Z of consumables.  But what you may not realise is Read the rest of this entry »

  Saw this program this week.  You thought An Inconvenient Truth was scary?  What this doco Read the rest of this entry »

  There’s a saying, Beauty is as Beauty does.  It’s amazing how ugly beauty might be underneath.

  I was approached by a student in architecture, Regina Chen, from The National University of  Singapore about the way people with autism perceive space.  Whilst I’m only one person with autism and every ‘autism fruit salad’ is a different combination, I have worked with 100s of people on the autism spectrum so felt I’d reply as best I could keeping that diversity in mind.  Here’s my replies: Read the rest of this entry »

Our TV here in Australia has just had advertisements urging everyone to go vegetarian. That may not sound so strange but we, like the US, are a meat producing nation. Read the rest of this entry »

I am seriously telling people in drought stricken suburbs, cities and towns to collect any large rubbish bins or industrial size builder’s tubs and place them around your back garden. Even put them under your rain pipes. Read the rest of this entry »

Chris Draper, a scientific researcher with the Born Free Foundation contacted me about a new ‘therapy’ ready to cash in on the tail of that equally hot money spinner in the ever expanding autism marketplace, dolphin therapy. Read the rest of this entry »

OK, so you buy the toothpaste in it’s fancy cardboard box and bring it home and first thing you do is throw that dyed, bleached, often not even recycled cardboard into the rubbish bin, or hopefully at least the recycle bin. You do it, I do it, and gazillions of households world wide do it ALL THE TIME. Read the rest of this entry »

I was born into a very challenged and challenging household of unusual, eccentric, personalities.

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On an Australian TV show, Lateline, last night, Tony Jones talked to US energy and environment consultant, Terry Tamminen. They discussed our embarrassingly sycophant Prime Minister‘s relationship to the US president, George Bush, regarding climate change.

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