Commercial project taking carbon out of air to make plastics – and hope
This is what we and Earth need – projects to take existing pollution out of Earth’s air. A new commercial project extracts carbon from Earth’s air to make plastic products. The ‘biocatalyst” commercial machine takes carbon from landfills and other polluting sources and mixes it with air in a reactor and makes it into a liquid which pulls carbon out of air and makes it into plastic. The two people behind the US business... Read More
I love birdsong in the morn n eve
Birds, birds, birds A friend has a couple of trees with flowers that attract parrots. They feed there day and night, gossiping, laughing, chortling, scurrying, eating upside-down (my favourite), coming and going. How I love Aussie parrots for their song and colour, their beauty. And there are both honey and native bees there, too, feeding on the tree’s feast. This year I’ll plant a tree or two like this. M Read More
A banquet of consequences – abrupt climate disfigurement
Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences. (Robert Louis Stevenson – Scottish Essayist, Poet, Author, 1850-1894) First, the good news: “Good News- Solar Storage Plant Gemasolar Sets 36-Day Record 24/7 Output, by Emma Fitzpatrick, Reneweconomy, Oct. 8, 2013: The Gemasolar, a Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) facility, is the world’s first large scale power plant that uses molten salt to capture heat during the... Read More
Go to this fish cafe
A good discovery to celebrate endings and beginnings at this time of the year; a fish shop and cafe which sells only fish caught sustainably and will help you match-make local high quality wines to go with your choice. Fish & Co. NOTE – their web site shows what fish they have for sale. You can go there for dinner during the week and lunch on the weekends, take away and wet fish to cook yourself. At - 41 Booth St, Annandale,... Read More
To have bees or not to have bees . . .
What bees give us and what we’re losing as we kill them with our ‘culture’ Read More
