June15
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 »
June13
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 »
June12
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 »
June7
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 »
May27
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 »
April17
He broke up with his girlfriend. She was seeing an older man. So he shot 32 people on a Virginia college campus.
Illogical?
Somehow not to him. But how? Read the rest of this entry »
April17
Ah, a brave new world indeed. Read the rest of this entry »
April2
Congratulations Four Corners.The US government may have gagged Australian, David Hicks, illegally imprisoned for five years, tortured and kept in solitary confinement for something that was no crime when arrested nor any crime under Australian law, but you, Four Corners, you have been a voice of the voiceless. Read the rest of this entry »
March8
Some people in the non-USA world view America as a whole as having money as its God.
If the president is the largest power in people’s lives next to God
and if they give him the power of life and death as they believe God has
then what do we make of the fact that George Bush got into power as a result of a record 100 million dollar election campaign, the most expensive in world history….. Read the rest of this entry »
