Plastic that ends up in the ocean can cause enormous problems for sea life. Whenever I think about this topic I picture a turtle that’s ingested a plastic bag (it looked like a tasty jelly fish) starving to death because his stomach is full with the plastic bag. Even after plastic starts to break down [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Plastic: so durable, so full of potential
Posted in Perth, tagged dumpster diving, government, House, Perth, Recycling, waste on 31 May 2007 | 3 Comments »
The Original House of Xanthorrhoea
Posted in indigenous fauna, indigenous flora, invasive species, Perth, tagged Garden, jarrah, landscaping, Perth, property subdivision, redevelopment, saving water, trees, tuart, xanthorrhoea on 21 May 2007 | 2 Comments »
Planting indigenous species in your garden saves water, attracts wildlife and makes for a beautiful garden. Last week I went to a plant sale held by the Eastern Hills Branch of the Wildflower Society of Western Australia. I bought seedlings of three shrubs for my garden: Hakea cristate (snail hakea), Beaufortia elegans, and Daviesia horrida. [...]
More Desalination?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged carbon emissions, climate change, fossil fuel dependence, government, Recycling, renewable energy, saving water, Water, Western Australia on 17 May 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Western Australian government is so happy with its water desalination plant in Kwinana, an outer suburb of Perth, that they are planning more plants. This week plans for a second desalination plant were announced at Binningup in the Shire of Harvey, 155km south of Perth and near the regional city Bunbury. This is after [...]
Compost, Beautiful Compost
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged compost, earthworms, Garden, insects, Recycling, saving water on 13 May 2007 | 8 Comments »
Compost is the best thing you can enrich soil with, because its recycled organic matter and it doesn’t cost anything to make – just a bit of rubbish sorting and time for it to ferment. You may have to purchase or make a container to keep it in. It’s a good idea to contain compost, [...]
A spider’s work is never done
Posted in indigenous fauna, Perth, tagged Animals, Family, Garden, Perth, spiders on 9 May 2007 | 2 Comments »
I like spiders, because I don’t like flies and the spiders kill them for me. My neighbour doesn’t feel the same way. He has the greenest and most environmentally un-friendly lawn in the street. He spends an awful lot of time, effort, money, water and chemicals on achieving this. Despite this, we still talk over [...]
Frogs in the park
Posted in indigenous fauna, Perth, tagged Animals, birds, frogs, landscaping, libraries, Perth, property subdivision, redevelopment, Water on 5 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was walking with Sheeba the dog through the housing development near my house the other night and although some of the blocks are empty; the roads are asphalt, the empty land is sand, weeds and rubbish and the only water source is garden hoses and water features (feng shui all the way). Despite this [...]
How far did dinner travel?
Posted in Australia, Perth, tagged Animals, carbon emissions, Dissent, Family, Garden, greenhouse effect, Perth, sustainable living, Worldwide on 2 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Eating locally produced food is important and I try to, but don’t always eat as locally as I’d like. Emerging Tar Heel Leaders discussed eating locally after The New York Times featured an article the other week. A comment to his blog post mentions the Slow Food movement that’s been going since 1989. Slow Food [...]
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"We must head back towards zero. At one degree the genie is out of the bottle, at two degrees the bottle is broken"
– David Spratt (2009) "Time for a Plan B on climate?" Dissent, no.30, p.37
About ClareSnow
I'm a librarian doing research, but my first love was science and as a kid I wanted to be an ecologist or botanist. Things got in the way and now I only "study" nature in my spare time. As the lazyst environmentalyst I write about what I do to try to ensure the nature of our world is still here for future generations.
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