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Last weekend I went home to Port Macquarie, where I hail from. It’s famous as a coastal town a driveable distance from Sydney where you can go to see dolphins and koalas for a weekend. It’s a beautiful place and has the most temperate climate of anywhere in Australia. It is where people go to retire and generally be conservative.

What I found to be the most incredible thing about my most recent trip wasn’t even seeing whales swim by, but that in the six months since my last visit solar… Continue

In my grandparent’s generation, people had it harder, but they knew how to live. They had to monitor the level of water in their tanks. They grew their own vegetables. They had to wait until it was strawberry season
to eat strawberries. They knew that if the banana crop failed there would be no
bananas. They lived through the depression and acknowledge even to this day
that waste is unacceptable. This meant living simpler, but it didn’t mean
living worse.

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Today’s theme is being very cold and very hungry. This morning, after a fresh dump of snow on Copenhagen I made my way to the metro (with a large, heavy, conspicuous sign of an October 24th action) and after a snow delay, elbow action in a backed up metro, I finally got on one of Copenhagen’s usually efficient metro trains. The four metro stops before the Bella Centre each had volunteers from 350.org displaying signs of actions from October 24th and last weekends vigils, sending the message of t… Continue

Great, inspiring actions continue to be in the works here in Denmark. I thought I would report back on what some random 21 year old Aussie who’s accent is apparently amusing to everyone, is bringing to Copenhagen, that’s me by the way.

Having been well and truly excluded from all official proceedings at the Bella Centre here I am in an office that is sub par in cleanliness, planning ways of getting a fair, ambitious and legally binding treaty that gets us to 350 ppm, what science demands (yep,… Continue