Tag: climateChange
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Giving autumn and building benches
Chalk up yet another perfect Canberra morning in the Autumn that just keeps on giving. A morning walk by the lake. A wake of golden-red foliage. The RSPCA was running their ‘million paws walk’, and we turned up late to catch the stragglers and sleepers-in. Juno immediately slotted in for bit of pack weaving, butt…
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Video: The shoe shop.
A beautiful little film documenting two peoples response to our changing world. Anna Björkman and Dougald Hine had been hosting online workshops for years, centering around the idea of regrowing a living culture. When they were looking for a physical place for their gatherings, they fell in love with an old shoe shop. Dougald Hine…
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If you want to know how things are going to be, look at how they are.
Mexico. May 2024. Mexico is struggling amid record-high temperatures and a severe drought. Water is being trucked into service hospitals and essential services. In protest of “intolerable” working conditions and lack of water in their barracks, the police themselves manned a protest blockade and blocked traffic. Meanwhile, in other species, a large number of Howler…
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Through it on two wheels.
An Autumn day like this demands a two-wheeled response. So I ride through it. One of those days that serves up unanticipated perfection. One of those days that leaves a pleasant inscription in your memory that you might try to recapture (by doing the same activities or going to the same place) but inevitably fail…
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Climate situation report: May 2024.
This is fine…. You may have seen some of the news reporting of severe world weather events spread over the past few weeks. When you group them all together the situation is a little more evidentiary to the impending badness of climate change. Remember, this is only mid May. The northern hemisphere is yet to…
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Australia’s continued support for the fossil fuel industry.
Alan Kohler is the finance presenter for Australia’s ABC News. In a recent article for thenewdaily.com.au, he laments our Government’s continued financial support for Australia’s natural gas industry. Support that bitch slaps the face of our climate scientists, a group of experts who are becoming more frustrated with the unwillingness of our leaders to take note…
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