Month: July 2014

The little house

The little house

I’d been keeping an eye on this little house for years, watching the place slowly become dilapidated and waiting for the inevitable trashing and redevelopment into 38 dog boxes (you know … units with no thought as to sustainability, livability or community).  The cyclone fencing went up, the workers arrived and I thought yep, there goes […]

The Green Question

The Green Question

The Green Question We are all trying our best at treading a little lighter on the Earth; some of us are truly inspirational while some of us – well aren’t quite there yet. But there is one thing we all can do that could have a huge positive impact. In a survey conducted in 2008 by Newspoll, […]

Plastic Rant.

Plastic Rant.

Do one more thing. I have this little thing about plastic – one may call it an obsession. I hate the stuff ! Plastic ain’t so fantastic. This toxic material is suffocating the planet, and nowhere more insidiously than in our oceans. Between 60 and 80% of ocean pollution is plastic. It is wrapped around […]