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Politics

Top dog under dog

March 19, 2008

A dog sits calmly, head turned towards a glow that emanates soft yellow. Does the dog understand what it is looking at? Maybe to the dog, its just the tail end of that “giant dog in the sky” she howls at monthly. Maybe, maybe not. Or is cognition just the domain of humans? This, they [...]

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Out on a limb

November 28, 2007

Fact one: Nearly all of the immensely tall old growth mountain ash forests in Australia, the eucalyptus regnans, have been logged away. Most of the last remaining virgin stands are in Tasmania, but the trees here are being chipped up, turned to pulp and used for products like toilet paper. The fact that the biodiversity [...]

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A sea of hands

November 21, 2007

…..And if, in the end, all other avenues are denied us, if it takes standing on the road to the pulp mill site and placing our bodies between their machines and our home, we will stand there, in peace and with pride, united against hate and greed, joined in our love for our island. And [...]

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Casting a vote to the devil

July 31, 2007

Witness I want to tell what the forests were like I will have to speak in a forgotten language W.S. Merwin Still fuming after writing last week’s blog entry about the Labor Party in Australia giving short shift to their traditional allies, the environment movement, I wrote an article for the widely read Australian online [...]

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A hopeful struggle

July 24, 2007

In the forgetting that we, too, are animals, a part of nature, as dependent on its health and balance as any other mammal, we foolishly permit the unrestrained industrial erosion and poisoning of our Earth habitat that promises to leave mankind as desolate and bereft of hope as a turtle stripped live from its shell. [...]

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Traveling light through life

April 4, 2007

The first tragedy to strike our tight knit community this past week was the passage by the upper house of the pulp mill fast track legislation that had been approved by the lower house the previous week. The bill is so bad that it does not allow any prosecution of proven criminal intent by Gunns [...]

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Pests in the garden

March 28, 2007

The above photo of “giant” spiral snail slugs in the tomato patch was originally “set up” in order to post this year’s April Fool’s Day blog in a manner similar to the jokes of last year and 2004. The story line was to have been: potent sea weed compost leads to invasion of tomato eating [...]

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What comprises the whole?

July 28, 2006

Earlier in the week I had attempted to plant out some new seedlings near the cliff face, but the ground, after not having much rain going on near eight months, was bone dry. Not much chance of survival here for tiny roots. Determined to do something, the week was spent repairing the many seedling trees [...]

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Maintaining the effort

March 24, 2006

In a letter to the editor of Tasmania’s Mercury newspaper this week, I wrote: It is said that a great society is known, not only for what it creates, but for what it refuses to destroy. In this letter I was making reference to the continual destruction in Tasmania of the precious old growth forests [...]

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Keep breathing

November 5, 2004

The shiny, reflective, inner beauty of the Split Rock only came about after the whole was broken open. Your heart is now thus. The pain of the American and Australian elections can lead us to a deeper wisdom, a deeper compassion, a deeper love for all of life. These winds that seem endless and, at [...]

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