Various topics I’d like to blog on if I had more time
So I’ll link you to other ozbloggers who’ve done it already! Edited to add: if there’s something you were intending to blog but haven’t got around to, or wish you had blogged but somebody else said it superbly first so you didn’t bother, or something you wished was being blogged about by ozbloggers but isn’t, [...]
Useless baby gear #98485: Poteez. Just say no.
Headdesk of the day: Poteez single-use disposable potties. Can I see a possible role for having one in the back of the car for emergencies? Sure, though you could just use a regular potty or a bowl or jar. But that wouldn’t be much of a business model, would it? These people are pushing them [...]
“These stunts are becoming tiresome…”
The protest will raise fresh questions over security at the Houses of Parliament. It is seen as a fundamental part of British democracy that people should be able to go there to lobby their MP. The public are allowed temporary passes to some parts of the building, but to get to most parts of the [...]
Greenwashing: dodgy green claims
CHOICE, the consumer activist group1, have a longstanding campaign targeting misleading “green claims” in advertising. Photo by Daveybot Organisations may mislead consumers by promoting themselves and their products as ‘eco-friendly’, ‘green’, ‘sustainable’ or ‘environmentally friendly’ and so on, when in fact they are having a negative or negligable impact. This behaviour, also known as greenwash, [...]
Wet summer
How odd it is for me to write those words after the last few dry years. The word(s) of the last weeks has been “La Niña”, the sister phenomenon to the prolonged El Nino event that has brought us severe drought year after long bloody year. Where El Nino brings eastern Australia dry weather, La [...]
Go go Gillard
As every media outlet cannot tire of telling us, today is the first day in Australia’s history when we will have a female (acting) Prime Minister, and as they are equally quick to reassure us, it’s only going to be for 60 hours, as Julia Gillard becomes the Acting PM while PM Kevin Rudd is [...]
Kyoto around the traps
[image source] Kevin Rudd’s first move as Prime Minister was to ratify Kyoto. It’s ten years late, but we’re there. Here’s a roundup of reactions in the blogworld so far. strangedave: It was a bit churlish of Australia really, to push in the negotiations so we got very generous terms for a developed country, and [...]
Opportunities squandered
JOHN Howard squandered the benefits of the $80 billion-a-year resources boom and wanted to be re-elected so he could retire, Labor leader Kevin Rudd said yesterday. Defining the choice facing voters in one of his last major speeches of the election campaign, Mr Rudd said that on Saturday voters would choose either the future under [...]
Careful there voters! You can’t return the Boogieman like an unwanted Christmas present, you know! But Unca John can keep your economy safe…why won’t you trust me?
Now our Prime Minister is treating voters like heedless children who simply haven’t thought carefully enough about what change might mean. Mr Howard says there is always a risk with changing Government. And he warns voters flirting with the idea that a Labor election victory is not like an unwanted Christmas present, that can be [...]
My ecoprint report card: could do better
I know a large part of my ecoprint above comes because I eat meat, I drive a car, and I have electricity (one car, and efficient/green electricity, but still). I’ve done reasonably well on the areas outside those parameters, although I still need to use less processed/packaged foods, and my footprint would go way down [...]
Sea-foam
This picture has generated some talkback radio discussion today: Image Source: Daily Telegraph (photo by Bill Counsell) The picture was taken at Yamba. The sea foam extends 50m across the beach and into the sea from the Surf Lifesavers club house, as shown in the photo below. Reports from locals are that they haven’t seen [...]
Malcolm Turnbull’s environment cred
Helen at Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony has a nice summary of this week’s brouhaha with the Minister for the Environment reacting badly to criticism from a fellow corporatocrat, Geoff Cousins, about the seemingly fast-tracked approvals process for a new Gunns pulp mill in Tasmania. GetUp has a campaign active aimed at encouraging the [...]
Bob Brown: the Rudd scandal in perspective and in a nutshell
Four years ago Kevin Rudd got drunk and took himself into a strip club. Four years ago John Howard, sober, took Australia into the Iraq war. I think the electorate can judge which one did the more harm. [Source] Senator Brown also thinks that a far more important electoral issue is the proposed Federal Government [...]
Seed Vault under the Arctic frost
By tigtog on February 27, 2008
A “Doomsday vault” even: The project is intended to provide a failsafe against disaster so that if a seed collection is destroyed in its natural habitat there is an alternative source of supply. Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which is behind the initiative, said that by preserving as many varieties [...]
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