My Fair Share

I was asked today about being carbon neutral and whether it is better to spend the money on alleviating poverty.
I didn’t really know how to respond, but it did get me thinking about why carbon is not something that I am terribly concerned about.
Now, I don’t know about human-induced, carbon caused, climate change.  Some people [...]

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Okay, okay.  I know that it has been way over a year since I started Kyle’s Carbon Accounting Method.
The idea of counting up everything for the second 6 months just Was Not At All Appealing, so it has taken until now to do it.
Right, so on with the detail.
Family 12 monthly income: 4 800 carbons
Total [...]

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A while ago I wrote about Peter Singer’s new book, where he talks about a fair share being an irrelevant notion.
I agree with Peter, as long as a fair share is seen a benchmark within a community.
Take my own community.  According to a recent study by some clever people at Queensland University of Technology, the [...]

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Well, I’ll be darned.
The whole crop circle idea has taken off. We had a yarn today and with about 60 families involved, we have decided to become an incorporated association, with a real rubber stamp and everything!
Dreams can come true.

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I love maps. I really enjoy poring over them and seeking out new information and discovering new patterns and emerging trends over time. I am in awe of those who think up new ways to present information; especially those who think up ways of using maps to express social and political dispersal in [...]

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A local mob is doing a project that they want me to help out with.  I know them well and it is all very friendly, and they are people who pitch in and help each other out in all manner of things – moving house, business ideas, etc.  I have helped them out before, happily [...]

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One the way to shopping this morning, I passed a house which until this morning was even more overgrown than my own place. Instead of the usual junglesque yard, it was a manicured paradise, befit for a golfing tournament.
And, there, standing proudly in its centre, was a ute, its tray full of that delight [...]

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I try not to get too carried away with bloggish chain letter things, but I am happy to get into Wendy’s idea. She writes:
Life has been good to me … very, very good.
The Fates have smiled on me.
The Universe has been kind and generous.
And in that spirit, I am taking the challenge to [...]

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I know that I use too much stuff.

So, it was with great sadness that I felt Yet Another big old prickle stick through my rather thin thong (of the footwear kind, not the ridiculous underwear kind) and came to the conclusion that perhaps it was time to invest in a new pair.
Being a hot sort [...]

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A family of some kids I have known for some years invited me to attend their high school graduation.  I went along, and we had a great time.  There were a few kids I knew, mostly through my unconfident attempts at tutoring upper-level maths in the past few months.

I got paid for some, and not [...]

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