Tag: environment
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The growing up we need to do.
Let’s treat the land we live on well: it was not given to us by our fathers, but it was lent to us by our children. —Masai proverb Be it crack on mark… or one rabbit hole too far I will leave up to you to judge, but my belief is that all this talk…
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The school of forestry.
Location: ///shorts.finger.entry35°18.2301’S, 149°5.70282’E Out for a walk today and came upon this old heritage listed building. The grounds are being meticulously maintained. The building itself is neglected and deserted. Such a shame. This was the Australian Forestry School. Opened in 1927, the building originally comprised two lecture theatres, a library, teaching laboratory and museum. It…
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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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Mantis
Sitting outside in the late Autumn sun I didn’t even notice this little green dude as he somehow made his way out onto my forearm. He finally snagged my attention with fore-claw air guitar semaphore and some sort of funky Mantis beat-bobbing. I watch his dance moves for a bit, amazed when he stops and…
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Bus stop update
I originally posted about our local bus stop here. On a recent walk, I met the man behind the aesthetic upgrade. Turns out he is on a mission to bring a little splendiferousness to our suburb. We chatted for a while, and spent some time vacillating over the correct shade of grey to paint the…
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Climate emergency: no soup for you.
Recently I became angry watching a news report about a group of ‘kids’ who allegedly threw tomato soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting at the National Gallery in London. That is just vandalism, I thought. And although I am super duper sympathetic to the cause of raising awareness of the climate emergency….defacing precious art is…
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