While we’re on the subject of the ‘new green’ are you using Ecosia – the Green Search Engine? Ecosia donates 80% of its revenue to the protection of the rainforest. You can search either from their home page or by installing their browser plug-in to make Ecosia your default search engine. When I first started [...]

A number of years ago we had a lillypilly absolutely butchered by an “arborist”. It was a beautiful tree – with loads of energy – and when he “trimmed” it, you would walk out the back and you could ‘feel’ its pain. It was just horrible – so much so that even our (at the [...]

It always amazed me that more people didn’t use their grey water for their gardens – particularly in Australia where water is at a premium. In order to use grey water safely though it’s important to use products that are low in sodium (less than 10gm per wash), contain little or no phosphorous (less than [...]

I read an interesting article last month about a microscopic plant that seems to love gobbling up CO2 – over and above trees I guess! According to the article, cyanobacteria are prehistoric organisms, no bigger than a pinhead and look like black slime. Despite their size these organisms changed the earth’s atmosphere by converting CO2 [...]

Could anything be so abhorrent? Mining the Moon?? It’s not bad enough that we continue to rape and pillage our Mother for as many resources as we can drag from Her womb, but the Moon? Indeed, I read in a recent newspaper article that a camera abord the US Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has created a [...]