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Here I am on Day 1 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living.
One of the easiest ways of shifting to living a low carbon life can be done very quickly from the comfort of your home: switching to clean, renewable energy.
In fact, most Australians want their primary energy to come from clean, renewable energy. Continue reading
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Here we are.
It’s New Year’s Eve. The opportunity we all have – and most of us want – to start afresh.
Today’s the day (or night) when we make all those decisions about how we’re going to live a better life in the coming year. Starting tomorrow we’re going to get fit, Continue reading
Screenshot of opinion article by Judith Sloan, The Australian, 16 August 2016, ‘Renewable energy target: emissions down, not in a good way”
Everything is not always what it seems. Especially in the media.
Check out this opinion article in The Australian.
It illustrates someone who is scared of change (or who is speaking up for people and businesses who are scared of change) – particularly the large-scale changes that need to occur to protect our precious world and its ability to support life as we know it. Continue reading
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Last night I drove my car for the first time in weeks.
It felt a bit odd.
It wasn’t as if anything was unusual: I loaded my things into the car, hopped into the driver’s seat and drove a very familiar route.
But it still felt a bit different. Continue reading
Image credit: Robert Couse-Baker, Flickr CC-BY 2.0
How often do we take the time to reflect on what we are doing, to look at our goals and how we go about our daily lives?
A lot of us (particularly in Western cultures) might do this once a year. We take part in the annual ritual at the end of the year, setting New Year’s Resolutions. Even then, we probably don’t go very deep, preferring instead to focus on broad Continue reading