My Fair Share

I would have woken up just before 5am and saw that it was light and consciously decided that all the things that I have not been able to do in the past week or so are not more important than lying in bed for a bit longer. I returned to sleep, only to [...]

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In the oyster bed that is my RSS feeds, I discovered the following pearl of wisdom by Kim at Hedges Happenings:
I am learning the world needs mercy and grace not a lecture.
It is all that I can do to strive for my actions to reflect this most simple of truths.
Thanks, Kim, I shall ponder this [...]

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While I am often angry, I don’t often enough feel guilty about the state of the nation.  It’s true I’m one lone voice, one lone vote.  But if I haven’t taken the time to understand what I need to do – how can I expect a different result from the nation?
What follows is a summary [...]

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Can you tell there’s an election on?  Honestly, the absolute nonsense that’s being reported as news!  Who really gives a $@*# if PM John W Howard said or didn’t say sorry for the interest rate hike we had to have (most of us know the Federal government never did have any control over interest rates [...]

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90% reduction? How simpatico! FSI’s 5.10.5.10 is all about measuring, and the environmental footprint bit (the first 10) calls on members to think about reducing the size of their individual footprints by ten per cent each year until they can do no more. Like all things FairShare, it leaves the details [...]

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While over at Simple Living: Simplify and Reduce, the article, Doing It All, reminded me that doing it all at once is not a sustainable way to approach sustainable living.  While it is so easy to seek rapid solutions to seemingly impossible problems, this does not necessarily create the long-term result.  Indeed, as with a [...]

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1. removed plastic from envelope windows and removed paper wrapping from tins – paper to compost; tins for raising seedlings
2. organised a regular supply of sawdust and wood shavings that I can use in my planned waterless loo
3. use shopping bags to wrap food instead of plastic wrap or other bags
4. sent off a few [...]

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The following extract from Poverty.com reminds me that an adjunct to a democracy’s widely lauded freedom of expression is freedom of ignorance: 
In September 2000, the 189 countries of the United Nations unanimously agreed to “spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty,” specifically hunger and [...]

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“Nation Could Run Out of Food”
Such was the headline covering most of yesterday’s front page of Queensland’s main newspaper, The Courier Mail (aka The Curious Mail).  Our Prime Minister, John Howard, has this week asked Australians to pray for more rain, especially within the food bowl of Australia, the Murray-Darling Basin.  This basin is responsible for 75% of [...]

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A bloke called Chris recently responded to my Solution page, asking me why it is so important to build democracy.  This is a question that comes from people from time to time when I outline the 5.10.5.10 to them. They generally seem to ‘get’ the other three areas, but this one creates some difficulties for many.
Here’s my response.
I believe [...]

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