Archive for the “environment” category
Connect The Dots
by Pippa on May 20, 2012
Will 3D printers make food sustainable? (Andrew Purvis for The Guardian)
His petri-dish patty will be made from a mixture of fat and cow muscle grown from stem cells in a culture of foetal calf serum (that’s blood plasma …
Connect the dots
by Pippa on May 20, 2012
The Land Grabbers by Fred Pearce (excerpt in The Guardian) with The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.…
Little Dreams
by Pippa on April 12, 2012
And what of the world traveller, the woman who’s now lived in 5 different countries?
I am so very glad to regularly lay myself down in this, our most beautiful bed. It’s comfortably soft and firm at the same time …
Frühling
by Pippa on April 14, 2009
Altogether I’ve spent about 3 years in Europe since 2002, but I’ve never been in one place to watch the whole transition from deep winter to spring before.
It’s been a lovely couple of weeks here in Berlin. From the …
meet, sit, talk and eat
by Pippa on November 15, 2007
Since I’ve returned to Adelaide I’ve had opportunity to host a few guests as part of CouchSurfing, the program that introduced me to Sid, Ninnu, Ronja and a whole bunch of other lovely people. Regularly, conversation with my international visitors …
bird on a wire
by Pippa on November 8, 2007
Over the last couple of years of drought, larger birds, more used to the Adelaide Hills and the outlying country areas have been moving into the leafy green/brown suburbs in search of water and food. Most importantly for this story, …
shiny and fast
by Pippa on October 29, 2007
I’ve got an admission to make, one which doesn’t sit very well with my treehugging, car-free, bike and public transport loving persona:
I really like fast shiny new cars and cool old gas guzzling cars from the 50s, super polluting …
speechless
by Pippa on October 19, 2007
“Gunns will pay a base price of nearly $16 a tonne for native timber and $32 for plantation timber with additional costs for road access, transport and harvesting.”
via abc.net.au…
bright green things.
by Pippa on July 17, 2007
Possibly the most fantastic and unexpected thing that happened at Aliese’s yesterday was that I discovered that her backyard is full of stinging nettles. Most people would balk at the idea of picking nettles for fun, but what I …
not wanted here
by Pippa on April 23, 2007
I suppose that by obsessively weeding I am procrastinating something. It’s true that I haven’t lodged my tax return from last financial year, and there are many other things I should be doing. Though weeding, and getting the garden growing …
