Update: More details on Giant Gippsland Earthworms are here. Update: I made some mistakes here and corrected them in this post. Earthworms are the natural recycling factory. Charles Darwin said Earthworms are nature’s ploughshare. My garden and compost bin are full of earthworms, which I love, but paradoxically I don’t usually like animals or plants that were introduced [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Earthworms Everywhere
Posted in books, extinction, invasive species, tagged compost, earthworms, Garden, Recycling, thermophilic bacteria, vermiculture on 26 July 2007 | 8 Comments »
That warm fuzzy feeling
Posted in books, tagged Amnesty International, Australian Conservation Foundation, Family, Greenpeace, Medicin Sans Frontieres, Organizations, Oxfam, RSPCA, World Vision, Worldwide, WWF on 22 July 2007 | 1 Comment »
Shawn at Kowai and Vanessa at Green as a Thistle were talking about their philanthropy, so I thought I’d join in. And thank you Shawn for adding me to your blogroll :) I wonder if the only reason I give money is to get that warm, fuzzy feeling and feel good about myself. I suppose [...]
Room to Move
Posted in dogs, tagged Family, Garden, herbs, Lazyst, vegetables on 18 July 2007 | 4 Comments »
I don’t have a very large area to grow vegetables and in winter it doesn’t get much sun. I often thought about digging up some of the lawn for vegies, but I never got around to it (being the lazyst gardener and all). Sheeba the dog likes to run along the front fence barking at [...]
Coal and its Consequences
Posted in Australia, tagged carbon emissions, carbon neutral, climate change, Energy, fossil fuel dependence, government, greenhouse effect, Greenpeace, Worldwide on 15 July 2007 | 1 Comment »
Clive Hamilton, the executive director of The Australia Institute, and George Monbiot, journalist and environmentalist, have been writing back and forth about the ideas presented in Monbiot’s book Heat. This started with Hamilton’s review of Heat in the New Left Review. Hamilton has most recently written, I was taken aback at Monbiot’s endorsement of carbon [...]
Regeneration after Fire
Posted in indigenous fauna, indigenous flora, invasive species, Perth, tagged banksia, birds, bushfire, fire tolerant, jarrah, marri, Perth, reptiles, reserves, trees, tuart, xanthorrhoea, zamia on 12 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In March there was a deliberately lit fire in Star Swamp Bushland Reserve. Last month, after time and rain, we went to see how the regeneration was progressing and it was amazing. The birds were singing everywhere. Ben from Nuts about Natives told me the dead looking zamias would be fine and they were sprouting [...]
GreenPower
Posted in Australia, tagged Australian Conservation Foundation, carbon emissions, fossil fuel dependence, government, greenhouse effect, House, renewable energy, sustainable living, Western Australia on 8 July 2007 | 6 Comments »
Many electricity companies sell power from renewable sources, but depending on where you live, different options are available. Western Australia doesn’t have as many electricity companies as the eastern states of Australia because the industry was only recently deregulated and until a few years ago electricity was provided by a state government owned company. Perth [...]
Getting Rid of Bugs
Posted in cats, dogs, invasive species, Perth, tagged Family, Garden, grey water, herbs, insects, Lazyst, Perth, pest control, reptiles, vegetables on 3 July 2007 | 4 Comments »
I have difficulty with insects and other critters eating the plants I grow. Greenpa doesn’t use any pesticides or herbicides on his crops and my mum tells me to just grow more than I need and then I can share with the critters, but I don’t have much room. So I try to kill the [...]
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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
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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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