My Fair Share

I guess this MyFairShare thing has been going a few years now – fits and spurts, stops and starts, yin and yan, some might even say manic and depressive.  All would be true and fair comment on my approach to most things.
I was speaking with a friend the other day.  We were [...]

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It can take a while sometimes for things to happen, but they do seem to happen – especially if they are worthwhile.

This morning, we went to feed and water some friends’ day old chicks, and change the temperature on their incubator.  On the way home, we stopped by another friend’s – a bloke who I [...]

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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 just wrote – then deleted – a whole post that waffled on about where I have been and what i have been doing, and about this and about that, and lamenting that now that I am the breadwinner once more, I have less time and inclination to pursue those things that matter (like making [...]

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Hmmmm. I have been thinking on Australia’s imminent Emissions Trading Scheme, and I have a number of ideas, but am yet to come to a conclusion..
Can someone please tell me what the point is of reducing my own emissions if we have an emissions trading scheme?

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What an awesome turn of phrase.
Read more at One Straw.  Thanks Rob.

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 I’ve been reading some of Peter Singer’s stuff lately. Always good for a think and a ponder, and always good for a restless night upon my comfortable bed in my structurally sound home with a full tummy and a few mosquitoes as the only real worry in my world.
If we are obliged to do no [...]

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