Category Archives: Conservation

Conservation in general – climate change has its own category but everything else goes here.

Festival season in Townsville

Winter in Townsville is the season of festivals and outdoor events, since the weather is (pretty reliably) clear and sunny. In the next few weeks there are at least three festivals which will attract a particular demographic, one which I … Continue reading

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The environmental cost of meat

This is the remainder – and perhaps the more important part – of the article by Diane Alford which I quoted from in my previous post. (Please return to that post for a description of ‘Rainsby’ and her family’s life … Continue reading

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Visiting White Mountains National Park

White Mountains National Park straddles the high point of the highway between Hughenden and Charters Towers. There is a lookout on the crest of the range – the Burra Range, part of the Great Dividing Range. It presents great views … Continue reading

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Self-sufficiency: bananas

When we came to this house twenty years ago we came to a somewhat neglected but well established garden. The house was already more than forty years old, a product of the post-war building boom that necessarily accompanied the post-war baby boom, … Continue reading

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