The week before last I had to go to Melbourne for a couple of days.
I’ve written before about holiday travel between Canberra and Melbourne.
But this was different. I had to organise the trip fairly quickly. Continue reading
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A couple of protests have made headlines in the last few days.
The first appears to have been big news in Canada and the US and amongst environmental organisations. It was the Draw the Line day of action organised by 350.org against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to transport oil from Canadian tar sands to Texas for refining.
One of the things I like about going to other places 
is seeing the different ways people do things.
A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting having breakfast in a Sunshine Coast café. We were all enjoying the warm sunshine and views across the seaside road to the beach and surf beyond.
We were pretty oblivious to the cars zooming along, but then I noticed something I didn’t expect to see in a coastal town focussed on tourism. Continue reading
Sometimes it’s just too hard.
🙁
Doing things a sustainable way, that is.
Especially in our current society…which is still mainly geared for the non-sustainable way of doing things.
At least it is in Australia, with our spread-out cities and towns…and public transport that is slow, or infrequent, or non-existent…especially at weekends. Continue reading
One of the things I’ve been getting more into recently
is riding my bike. You might have gathered that from my post of
4 March 2013.
Yes, of course there are environmental benefits from riding a bike. These include things like: Continue reading