Fast fashion? Here’s some good news…
We’re making progress on the textile waste problem! It’s no secret that the past few months have been really tough for the retail sector. Many businesses have found the economic and consumer landscape really challenging, and with the present uncertainty due to the COVID-19 virus, it is hard some days to find the good news […]
Don’t believe COVID-19 is being contained!
That just ain’t gonna happen until there is a coronavirus (COVID-19 strain) vaccine for everyone! Do not accuse me of scare-mongering or panicking. It won’t work because I have both science and logic on my side. And I’m fully prepared so I have no need to ‘panic’. But I digress… Right now, we do not […]
It’s NOT panic buying… it’s a totally rational response!
We have kept an emergency food and ‘essentials’ supply for years. It’s not that we expect to use it. We’re optimists. But let’s call a spade a spade. The world is a very unstable place. Politically, we’ve got Putin, Trump, Kim Jong-un and Xi Jinping all set on world domination. Geologically, we face earthquakes that […]
Nestlé, Coke and Pepsi being sued as major polluters!
You recycle, right? You sort as requested. Right bin, right box. But there’s an ugly truth… Of all the plastic produced since the 1950s, 91% of it has NOT been recycled. Instead, the scrap winds up in landfills, burned in incinerators, or dumped in our oceans. And since the vast majority of that plastic has been […]
Why do we think we’re immune to mass extinction?
I’m not new to either the global warming or the mass extinction debate. I’ve been ‘banging the drum’ for decades. I’m 70. I’ve got eyes, ears, a nose and, thankfully, an analytical brain. And I’ve personally experienced mega environmental changes over my lifetime. You have to be deaf, dumb and blind and mentally deficient to […]
State of the Union or State of Despair?
Here in Australia, we – and indeed, many other citizens of Western nations, follow the antics of Trump and the US Senate with bewilderment. It has nothing to do with left or right leanings. It is about the extraordinary abuses of power we are witnessing. Abuses that are fueled by the massive divide – dare […]
Oh crap… or not! That constipated feeling…
Look around you. Can you see three other people? Chances are, one of you is constipated. Constipation! We don’t talk about it. We suffer in silence hoping nature (or that laxative) will come to the fore and save us. It’s hardly a mealtime topic but hiding it won’t help regularity. In the long distant past […]
What I learnt about the Australian bushfires living on the edge of the Sahara Desert
From 1981 to 1999 my family and I lived in Niger Republic, a borderland of the Sahara Desert. I was in charge of a small reforestation project. The hard-earned lessons acquired during that period serve me to this day. When I arrived in 1981, I was confronted by an environment on the cusp of ecological […]
How the humble light-bulb launched planned obsolescence!
If manufacturers made products with truly extended usable lives, they’d be out of business. Imagine a washing machine or a fridge that lasted 25 years.
Fat and getting fatter! America 2030…
Three years back I wrote an article that caused enormous controversy. I was accused of body-shaming and even of being a misogynist (the article highlighted obesity, not gender specific obesity). The bottom line was – and continues to be – that no-one wants to be called out as being FAT. It’s a three letter word, […]
