Travelling up the kangaroo valley to see Bowral’s tulips and cherry blossoms was the perfect way to celebrate the spring equinox :*D
Bowral cherry blossoms
//Category: Environment & Biodiversity
Environment & Biodiversity
//Glacier’s Singing Dropstones
//Love this article <3 (because I love pebbles :D)
“During the ice-age when Australia was nearer the South Pole, glaciers dominated the landscape. As glaciers bulldozed through the landscape, rocks and debris were picked up and carried along in the weight and movement of ice. When the glacier reached the ocean, chunks carved off into icebergs. The stones frozen in the iceberg floated offshore.
As the iceberg melted, the stones dropped into the ocean. The glaciers pick up that material, move to the edge of the continent, then move out to sea with it, then drop it. That’s why Geologists call these stones dropstones, or ice rafted debris, and many such pebbles have washed up on the strip of coastline that includes Singing Stones Beach.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-31/epic-history-behind-famous-singing-stones-beach/104148526
early morning drama
//so nice :,D
gone fishing
//looking forward to more good time spent outside <3
save the fig tree
//Please help save the fantastic fig tree outside my house o/`
Add your support here -> Change.org/p/save-the-significant-fig-tree-in-alfred-st-ramsgate-beach-sans-souci-nsw
fire and smoke
//that time of the year again o_0
Climate Delay
//“Discourses of Climate Delay” – awesome work by Léonard Chemineau
All characters plus the printable version in several languages can be found at Leolinne.com/?portfolio=discourses-of-climate-delay
had a lil visitor
//this dragonfly rested on my little gumtree all afternoon
also love Canberra’s Botanical Garden :)
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love Sydney’s sandstone
//It’s hundreds of millions of years old & my mind boggles each time I wander across it <3
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_sandstone
on the upside – spring has sprung \o/
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rejoicing
//A year ago it all burnt down but now nature is sprucing back with a vengeance and I couldn’t be happier about it : -)
really looking forward to a break
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ecology > grief
//Recently I got caught up in a commentary to a tweet of mine where I expressed concerns over people leaving stuff behind in National Parks, like the locks people put on railings. The argument put forward was that people do that because they grieve, and then they can’t think of someone else’s concerns, and also if something is man-made anyone can attach something to it.
I disagreed, saying by that definition anyone can put anything anywhere at any time. The discussion stopped, days later I found myself blocked by that account.
While it is unpleasant to be excluded by someone at random, I still stand by my conviction that if we don’t take the care for our surroundings more serious at all times, none of the protection that we’re hoping to give to our natural world will work.
So does grief out-rule ecology? No, it does not.
Instead it could be used for its safeguard, not against it. One way to connect loss to a memorable element in nature is to plant a tree, or donate towards upgrading the National Park that was visited. There are plenty of ways to create a memory that is in sync with the aim of protecting our natural environment.
Loveliveson.com/memorial-trees-australia
Plantatreeforme.org.au
To my country, from an expat – Ben Lawson
//To my country, from an expat – Ben Lawson poem
2020 thus far
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Which food takes the most water to produce?
//The average Australian’s diet has a water scarcity footprint of 362 litres per day. A water scarcity footprint consists of two elements: the litres of water used, multiplied by a weighting depending on whether water scarcity at the source is higher or lower than the global average.
Foods with some of the highest water scarcity footprints were almonds (3,448 litres/kg), dried apricots (3,363 litres/kg) and breakfast cereal made from puffed rice (1,464 litres/kg).
In contrast, foods with some of the smallest water scarcity footprint included wholemeal bread (11.3 litres/kg), oats (23.4 litres/kg), and soaked chickpeas (5.9 litres/kg).
Of the 9,000 diets studied, 25 per cent of the water scarcity footprint came from discretionary foods and beverages such as cakes, biscuits, sugar-sweetened drinks and alcohol
Food systems account for about 70 per cent of global freshwater use.
Read the whole article here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-07/chocolate-wine-food-production-water-use-climate-change/11578608
Fitzroy Falls NSW
//Fitzroy Falls in the beautiful Morton National Park
On renewal, and how to get there
//The world’s crises represent three divides: ecological, social, and spiritual. The ecological divide manifests in symptoms such as environmental destruction, and is experienced as a divide between self and nature. The social divide manifests in increasing rates of poverty, inequity, polarisation, and violence and is experienced as a divide between self and self. And the spiritual divide is experienced as a disconnect between self and self — the “current self” and the “emerging future self”.
A disconnect between these two selves manifests as burnout, depression, and suicide. In 2010, more people died from suicide than from murder, war, and natural disasters combined. Suicide is not an economic problem or a generational tic. It’s not a secondary concern, a sideline that will solve itself with new jobs, less access to guns, or a more tolerant society, although all would be welcome. It’s a problem with a broad base and terrible momentum, a result of seismic changes in the way we live and a corresponding shift in the way we die around the world.
Another symptom of this disconnect is the decoupling of GDP from the actual well-being of people: we produce more, consume more, and are busier than ever before but our happiness and wellbeing are declining.
Tsunami – how it works
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