Weird Weather Continues…

High windsbattered the Southland yesterday not helping our extremely dry conditions any.

Urban “Mountain” Goats

Having fun on a pile of ‘crete


BOOKMARKS
Ten ways to garden sustainability

In just a few years, “sustainability” has changed from a “What?” word to a buzzword. People are recognizing the threats to our resources — water, air, soil, forests — as evidenced by the tremendous public response to the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” which won an Oscar recently.
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Stop shopping … or the planet will go pop [the Guardian]

‘Many big ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet,’ begins the argument by Jonathon Porritt, government adviser and all-round environmental guru.
‘Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy. Its compulsive attractions rob its followers of reason and good sense. It has created unsustainable inequalities and threatened to tear apart the very fabric of our society. More powerful than any cause or even religion, it has reached into every corner of the globe. It is consumerism.’
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