Here's my Christmas message. I have said this before somewhere but this time it is delivered by well-known, highly respected scientist and environmentalist David Suzuki who begins to look more and more like Santa Claus as time goes by. Personal thoughts It may be thought that this is a bit of a downer at... Continue Reading →
Hallelujah! Now Here Is Some Good News (for a change).
I haven't always had good words to say about US President Barak Obama but today, hot off the press this is, he (thank you Sir) has issued an Executive Order titled 'PREPARING THE UNITED STATES FOR THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE'. Like I said, this is very good news. It appears he is finally getting... Continue Reading →
Postcard From My Facebook Page
I sometimes do quick posts to my Facebook page and then wonder why I didn't think to do them here first. Here is one of those: I have a growing respect for this health website for the fine articles they publish. Here is a very down-to-earth one from Peter Gray MD, "a small town family... Continue Reading →
Blood From Stone
One might ask the question as to why it has taken the Shell oil company over thirty years of experimention in Colorado to realise that there is no profit in trying to extract blood from stone, or oil from shale. An article just published on Resilience.org and originally on Resource Insights relates how Shell has... Continue Reading →
“Messieurs, c’est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot.”
The Last Word From the start of my involvement with blogging and social media I have built up a list of favourite quotations. Among them is the following from Louis Pasteur the microbiologist and discoverer of the role of microbes in the process of fermentation and who played a large role in the field of... Continue Reading →
Gender Roles In Collapse
Today I read this excellent article titled 'On Gender, Collapse, & Communities We Can All Abide' by Katherine Acosta at the resilience.org website and was disgusted, though not surprised, to be awakened to the blinkered misogynist views of such otherwise eminent writers on societal collapse and related subjects as Dmitry Orlov and James Howard Kunstler.... Continue Reading →
System Thinking and the Informal Vote
George Monbiot, an author, political commentator and a columnist for The Guardian UK, occasionally gets things right and I have to agree with much of what he says in this article presented by the Permaculture Research Institute Australia. I felt I should comment on his piece by relating why I voted informally (mostly due to... Continue Reading →
Earth Overshoot Day
I seem to spend more time writing little pieces on my Facebook page than I do here recently, so I decided to repeat here something I just posted there. Today is Earth Overshoot Day (EOD). Every year since the early 1970's EOD has arrived a little earlier in the year. What does this mean? Well,... Continue Reading →
Avoiding the Snoopers
Where Did The Ads Go? Here is something quite interesting. Since early July, I have been using the free blocking software from Abine.com called 'DoNotTrackMe' and more recently, 'MaskMe' to enhance and protect my internet browsing and email experience. I have noticed that my Facebook page is now ad free. This I can only... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 