I scored a bike. Chris has gone to Canada for seven months to work and he left his bike in my loving care. While Chris is in Vancouver (via Perth, via Warwick, Qld) he’s going to be my North American blog correspondent. Chris aka Dr Jones is a real doc. You won’t be able [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Family’
On yer bike
Posted in Perth, tagged bike, carbon emissions, cycling, Family, public transport, town planning on 11 October 2008 | 2 Comments »
A new (old) fridge and a cat looking for a home
Posted in House, tagged cats, Consumption, Family, Recycling on 29 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My grandma recently moved into a nursing home and her house is being emptied ready to be rented. I scored her fridge (only owed by one elderly lady). It has a separate fridge compartment and freezer, which my old fridge didn’t. You had to open the fridge door to get to the freezer, so [...]
Birthdays and Earthworms
Posted in Consumption, tagged compost, earthworms, Family, Garden, sustainable living on 29 August 2007 | 1 Comment »
In my family, August is the birthday month. My mum, my two brothers and I all have our birthdays in August. This means I’ve recently been trying to figure out presents that aren’t a waste of money or resources. I used to buy “gift shop” presents for my friends and family. Fortunately I realised a [...]
Could I be beautiful without petroleum?
Posted in Consumption, cosmetics, toiletries, tagged carbon emissions, Family, fossil fuel dependence, sustainable living on 15 August 2007 | 4 Comments »
Like Alina, the Closet Environmentalist, I have a love for potions, lotions and products that supposedly make me beautiful. Unlike Alina, I’m only now trying to wean myself away from them.
This started when I began to look at where my lotions were made. Spain, Thailand, Italy and the US made for a multicultural bunch, but [...]
Compost Snob No More
Posted in dogs, tagged compost, earthworms, Family, Lazyst, Recycling, sustainable living, vermiculture on 10 August 2007 | 2 Comments »
I really can’t be a compost snob anymore because I now have a worm farm, complete with wiggly earthworms. They look just the same as the earthworms in my compost bin, but I’m assured they’re not. My dad informed me that I couldn’t just leave them; I had to look after them. Does he [...]
Correcting Earthworms and more Composting tips
Posted in books, cats, dogs, invasive species, tagged anaerobic bacteria, compost, correction, earthworms, Family, Garden, Lazyst, mesophilic bacteria, Recycling, thermophilic bacteria, vermiculture on 5 August 2007 | 4 Comments »
After writing about earthworms and composting the other week, I read Composting: from organic waste to black gold by Victoria Heywood (Penguin, 2005) and found out I got some things wrong. I thought I’d better correct my mistakes.
I’ve always thought that composting and vermiculture were completely different. I knew in the back of my mind [...]
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 the [...]
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 [...]
Getting Rid of Bugs
Posted in Perth, cats, dogs, invasive species, 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 [...]
This is the Way We Wash the Clothes
Posted in Perth, indigenous flora, tagged carbon emissions, Family, Garden, grey water, House, Perth, saving water, watering on 10 June 2007 | 4 Comments »
Last year I bought a washing machine for the first time. For years I’d gone to my parent’s to do my washing. I bought a front-loading washing machine which uses less water than a top-loading washing machine (even though it takes a longer time to wash). I chose one that was more energy efficient [...]
Think on this
"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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