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Today’s mail bought more regulation and fees with it…this time to do with producing and selling eggs in NSW. Luckily, we come under the limit so don’t need to apply for a license (though we and any other people selling less than 20 dozen eggs a week DO NEED to notify the Food Authority of their business details [...] San Francisco Mayor looking into turning the city’s wasted space into food-producing space! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/08/BA5C18L6RG.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1 The threat of nuclear power, like the threat of nuclear weapons, has never gone away simply because we have other things on our minds now, such as the global economic crisis and swine [...] Richard Heinberg’s Look on the Bright Side: http://www.postcarbon.org/look_bright_side A BP and Chinese led consortium on Tuesday won a deal to develop Iraq’s largest oilfield – the only successful foreign bid in a historic televised auction. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/5701252/BP-wins-biggest-Iraq-oil-contract.html The British recession was much more severe than first thought in the first three months of the year, official figures showed on [...] Sorry, just had to include a link to this article: Wallabies are getting stoned on Tasmania’s opium poppy crops and hopping about in circles, authorities say. http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/hopping-mad-stoned-wallabies-make-crop-circles-20090625-cxlt.html This is a great read: Cheer Up It’s Going to Get Worse. Peak oil describes a scenario, perhaps already unfurling, in which the easy days of oil-based society are over, a scenario in which global oil production has peaked and in which every barrel of crude oil drawn from the earth from that point forth is [...] This year’s commencement address at Portland University given by Paul Hawkens is incredibly eloquent, evocative and inspirational. READ IT! http://www.up.edu/commencement/default.aspx?cid=9456&pid=3144 Scientists warn of climate catastrophe. The world faces a growing risk of “abrupt and irreversible climatic shifts” as fallout from global warming hits faster than expected, according to research by international scientists released Thursday. http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/scientists-warn-of-climate-catastrophe-20090618-cm1v.html When unpaid work is still [...] Our World Needs a New Renaissance – This is an article about getting over all the bad news and adapting, about how to put some of the things humanity has gotten wrong, right. It’s by John Thornton, named by the New Statesman as one of the top 10 people to change the world. It also includes information about [...] |
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