on talking about it
There is a conference coming up at the University of Technology, Sydney, and you will preesent a paper about this weedyconnection project. UTS CONFERENCE ON COSMOPOLITAN CIVIL SOCIETIES 4 + 5 OCT What does cosmopolitanism mean in an age where globalisation is accompanied by the War on Terror and where unprecedented levels of international migration […]
on lantana’s new nature
The book by Tim Low, New Nature, is like a block of chocolate, you could eat it in one mouthful, but it taste better if you savour it. You found this couple of pages which are so pertinent to your argument you will have to duplicate them in electronic format. Thanks Tim. Chapter 7 Nature […]
on eating local food and reading far away blogs
You noticed an article on the Sydney Morning Herald inlet, Good Living, and found it quite amusing that you were just this week reading online about the same subject, the 100 Miles Diet. Pic by destabee You came across it through browsing other’s people links, the journeying started with searching youtube for environment-related shorts (see […]
You tube, like everybody else, and made a list of “weedyconnection-related” shorts..
This is the list. A bunch of shorts from anywhere plus a couple of yours. Subjects vary from self-help to self-health, from how to make a ground oven to how to make a soup with nettle. Some of them are straight lectures from various experts in environment, anthropology, alternative medicine, geography or all of the […]
on Wild radish and the resilience of some plants
You went for a walk by the Nepean River on the weekend and found a beautiful patch of Wild Radish, Raphanus raphanistrum. The plants is the subject of several international researches at the moment as is showing an incredible resilience to various chemical control methods, to the point of changing its own DNA make-up at […]
on September weather, cold and windy
September’s here, according to Australian calendars spring starts on the first of the month, for some reason unknown to you. As far as you know the start of spring is the spring equinox, on the 21st. That was true for civilizations as old and as far apart as Mayan and Greeks, Egyptians and Celtic, but […]
