Australian voters have every reason to be cynical

The summer period comes with many different traditions. For our family Christmas, breakfast is the main event with everyone gathering together for platters of fruit, Christmas ham, fried eggs, croissants, juice and sparkling wine and secret santa. It’s political fights with my dad. It’s trips to the beach, prawn sandwiches on the veranda as the sun sets, it’s a time for recharging your batteries and reflecting on the year that’s been before looking ahead to the year to come.

Steam billows from the cooling towers at TRUenergy
 Holdings Pty's Yallourn coal-fired power station in
Yallourn, Australia. 

Every year, most people I know feel like they’ve just managed to scrape through until they get a break at Christmas. This year it feels like government barely scraped through.

Read the story from The Canberra Times by Ebony Bennett - “Australian voters have every reason to be cynicall.”

The High School Where Learning to Farm Is a Graduation Requirement

A group of teens gathers quietly in the predawn darkness. Dressed in warm clothing, they meet before breakfast to help capture and pack broiler chickens to be taken to a slaughterhouse. They fed, watered, and watched the birds grow; now they prepare them for their final trip. Eventually, the birds will return as meat and be cooked for the teens to eat.

Founded in 1837 to serve the children of Quaker
 families, Olney Friends School has always had
farm program and students have been involved in
its operation to varying degrees.

High school students at Olney Friends School, located on 350 acres near Barnesville, Ohio, witness the cycle of birth and death time and again during their four years on campus. Founded in 1837 to serve the children of Quaker families, Olney has always had a farm program and students have been involved in its operation to varying degrees.

Read the Yes! Magazine story by Mary Ann Lieser - “The High School Where Learning to Farm Is a Graduation Requirement.”

We bicker and procrastinate while nature seeks equilibrium

Al Gore - An Inconvenient Truth.

Politicians and the other responsible men continue to bicker and procrastinate about climate change, while nature, totally disinterested in those pointless postponements, continues to seek the equilibrium humans have disrupted.

Climate change advocate and the fellow who warned the world of the “inconvenient truth” , Al Gore is present in Australia and has meet and talked with coal billionaire and Federal politician, Clive Palmer, who this morning was to breakfast with Australia’s PM, Tony Abbott.

A story headed: “Clive Palmer will help axe carbon tax but courts Al Gore in push for ETS” and published today by the ABC told a little of discussions between this disparate collection of decision makers.