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
save the fig tree
//Tag: Environment & Biodiversity
Environment & Biodiversity
//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
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