Still have not written/sent out Chrismas mail. *sigh*
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Here is the news. A lot of it's gardening and farming and environmental today. It's the drought and the fires and the Sydney water restrictions preying on my mind.
The Guardian If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer
Veganism for the sake of animal welfare may not be the best practice. Our world evolved sustainably on many layers and levels of consumption - from omnivores to carnivores to herbivores to plants to fungi to microbes. Our problem is not the basic consumption but the excesses of it and the manner in which that consumption is fuelled.
The Pacific Village Regenerative Practice #1 – Build your own food forest.
ABC.net Drought-proofing your garden during the big dry
Relevant for those of us with gardens who'd like them to survive...
I Love Bello Shire Syntropic Farming- the answer to age old farming dilemmas.
Medium The Case Against Philanthropy
Human dignity should never be conditional to the generosity of billionaires
I haven't read this, but I suspect I will agree with what it says. When money is conditional on behaviour and not just need, then people will ape the behaviour in order to get the money - and they won't mean it - it'll be nothing more than a show of behaviour, and they'll become bitter about it, and seek ways to circumvent the system. That's how human nature works.
Medium Hey non-profits — it’s time we talked about mental health
Tatts is someone I know from high school. She had a breakdown at uni and switched tracks entirely, and is now very activist - originally more politically leaning (her sister in law was in politics for a while), but now more invested in ground movements, such as the protests in HK which she's been covering.
Beth Immanuel Org New Wine And Old Wineskins: A Parable Explained
This is a much better interpretation of the context of Jesus' parable about 'you don't put new wine into old wineskins' than the idea that I'd been taught all my life that it's about new lives and old lives rather than new teachings and the difficulties of getting it into old schools of thought.
It's basically the biblical version of 'Until you're 30, everything is new and fantastic and wondrous; and after 30, it's all the devil's work and the end of humanity as we know it'. :D
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Here is the news. A lot of it's gardening and farming and environmental today. It's the drought and the fires and the Sydney water restrictions preying on my mind.
The Guardian If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer
Veganism for the sake of animal welfare may not be the best practice. Our world evolved sustainably on many layers and levels of consumption - from omnivores to carnivores to herbivores to plants to fungi to microbes. Our problem is not the basic consumption but the excesses of it and the manner in which that consumption is fuelled.
The Pacific Village Regenerative Practice #1 – Build your own food forest.
Welcome to 25 days of Regenerative Practice. The recent fire crisis in Australia has seen a lot of people feeling very nervous about the future and wondering what on Earth can we do?
ABC.net Drought-proofing your garden during the big dry
Relevant for those of us with gardens who'd like them to survive...
I Love Bello Shire Syntropic Farming- the answer to age old farming dilemmas.
Syntropic Farming was developed in Brazil by Ernst Gotsch (Swiss botanist) in response to the devastation of deforestation and the failure of mono culture farming on this cleared land. The word ‘Syntropy’ in an agroforestry context refers to “increasing complexity” and therefore bio-diversity within the system.
Medium The Case Against Philanthropy
Human dignity should never be conditional to the generosity of billionaires
I haven't read this, but I suspect I will agree with what it says. When money is conditional on behaviour and not just need, then people will ape the behaviour in order to get the money - and they won't mean it - it'll be nothing more than a show of behaviour, and they'll become bitter about it, and seek ways to circumvent the system. That's how human nature works.
Medium Hey non-profits — it’s time we talked about mental health
Tatts is someone I know from high school. She had a breakdown at uni and switched tracks entirely, and is now very activist - originally more politically leaning (her sister in law was in politics for a while), but now more invested in ground movements, such as the protests in HK which she's been covering.
Beth Immanuel Org New Wine And Old Wineskins: A Parable Explained
This is a much better interpretation of the context of Jesus' parable about 'you don't put new wine into old wineskins' than the idea that I'd been taught all my life that it's about new lives and old lives rather than new teachings and the difficulties of getting it into old schools of thought.
It's basically the biblical version of 'Until you're 30, everything is new and fantastic and wondrous; and after 30, it's all the devil's work and the end of humanity as we know it'. :D
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