Guerrilla Gardening...

Have you been watching the Guerrilla Gardeners show on Channel 10? Personally, I find the show a little too stagey. What they’re doing is technically against the law, but when you film it and broadcast it on national tv, it’s hard to feel like they’re taking any real risks! So far, the worst that has happened is that one council ripped out their palm trees - since those were on a roundabout at the junction...

Fresh green links: Earth Hour...

So tomorrow night at 8:30pm, it’s Earth Hour 2009. You hadn’t forgotten, had you? Nevermind, here’s a bunch of ideas for what you can do to show the world that you (and millions of other people) want strong action on climate change: Making Earth Hour happen in your town (pdf file) - tips and suggestions for what you can do to organise your own event, if your city isn’t doing anything special. Earth...

I’m in G Magazine this month...

Just a quick note to mention that I’m blogging for G Magazine again, doing the G Challenge each month. This month’s quest is to take public transport or a bike more often, you can read about it at the G Challenge blog. I’m also in the latest (March/April) print issue. I was competing with a guy named Nathan to see which of us could save more money by going green, and we both wrote our stories of how...

One room...

Just wanted to share this adorable little video with you. It’s an old public service announcement from the 80s, featuring Kermit the Frog and other muppets.

Fresh green links...

Interesting links from this week: Catalyst’s Water recycling segment - an 11 minute video about Queensland’s water recycling plant. It shows you how the water is treated, which I’d never seen before, and has comments from people for and against it. There’s a transcript of the segment also. Personally, I’d be happy to drink recycled water instead of draining the ground water aquifers we use...

Sorry, contact form is disabled temporarily...

Just a quick note to say that I’ve temporarily disabled the contact form on my Contact page. I’ve been getting a spam attack today, with a new spam email sent to me every 30 seconds, so I’ve switched it off until the idiots criminals move on to a new target.

Review: The Ethics of What We Eat...

I’ve just finished reading The Ethics of What We Eat, by Peter Singer, an ethicist, and Jim Mason, a journalist and lawyer, who are both animal liberationists. It investigates the food choices of 3 American families to see where it comes from, and what the ethical implications of their choices are. The book includes facts and figures for Australian audiences when it’s different from the USA statistics. The...

Fresh green links...

Hope you’re all looking forward to a great weekend! Here’s the news and interesting links for the week: News Tonnes of oil blanket Queensland beaches - this ABC report on it has video and audio and asks for people’s own photos of the damage. First cyclones, now this. I hope the state government is able to successfully prosecute the company and get enough money to pay for the years-long cleanup. Polluted...

Make your stimulus payment greener...

Over the next three weeks, most Australians will be getting a $900 stimulus payment from the government. The idea is to keep the economy from stagnating as we all buckle down to save money during the recession. Personally, I think the money would have been better spent on infrastructure like renewable energy, public transport, hospitals and education. But since the household payments are going to happen, it’s a...

Earth Hour - cast your vote for Earth...

This year’s Earth Hour is being held at 8:30PM Saturday 28 March 2009. You can join in with people from 80 cities around the world just by turning your lights off for a single hour. The theme is “Vote Earth”. As the Earth Hour website says, for the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote. Switching off...