Writer, musician, coder, want to be boat builder
I'm doing a bit of recycling. Actually I am building a boat, but bear with me.
I was on the phone with a client this week and surprise, surprise, the subject of Covid came up.
There seems to be a fair bit of anger in the community directed towards the prime minister.
Someone said to me at the weekend that the world is in a mess.
I like the idea of the pen being mightier than the sword but I guess it rather depends on whose hand wields the pen.
Lockdown is tough, more so for some than others.
Having developed, in recent years, a desire to be a better global citizen, less wasteful and more caring for the planet on whose surface we scrabble, I was particularly struck by a recent event.
Here we are again. Whilst none of us are, I'm sure, entirely happy about it, can we at least agree that it is necessary? I mean, what's the alternative?
It seems trite to moan about recycling soft plastics in Cambridge NZ when across the world people are dealing with such crises as the earthquake in Haiti, unprecedented rainfall and flooding in Japan,
As I write, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is about to publish their latest report. I reckon it should be called
The biggest manufacturer, in the world, of plant based meat is called Beyond Meat. The founder of Beyond Meat is called Ethan Brown,
Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos have both recently returned from the edge of space.
After the Howl of a Protest which swept through Cambridge and the rest of the country last Friday,
We boarded the train en famille at Frankton last Saturday morning at the start of our 'winter break',
On the occasion of a recent birthday I was given a copy of a newly published book. It's called 'Climate Aotearoa - What's happening & what can we do about it'.
I wrote recently about timescales and how we sometimes refer to mind-bendingly long periods of time in convenient terms like the 'Cambrian explosion'
I have, on a couple of occasions, had cause to write to Jamie Shaw who is now the minister for climate change.
I became vegetarian about four years ago. There were two reasons.
The act of sending any person to person mail or parcels through NZ Post is now carbon neutral.
Apparently I am grumpy on Tuesday mornings. That's because Tuesday is rubbish day and we have to get our rubbish bags out on the street by seven o'clock in the morning.