Could the observed disappearance of insects in the natural world be a result of the widespread rollout of mobile phone technology? An message prompted by my recent reading of the book “The Invisible Rainbow — A History of Electricity and Life” by Arthur Firstenberg.
I remember Mrs Carbury in her motorised wheelchair, the vehicle that provided mobility within her small bed-sitter and beyond into her large organic vegetable and herb garden, a place of teaching and learning.
The following was written in December 1988 after attending the funeral of Ken Field, former Bursar of Scotch College in Melbourne.
I wrote the following on 29th January 2003. Now we are facing the same situation again it seems. Climate is cyclical?
Sometime in the 1970s the Danes invented a new way of collective living — neighbourhoods designed, built and managed by the people who lived there. The English name for these is “Cohousing”.
Travelling through the Gold Coast in 2006, I was struck by the vista of materialism gone awry.
Some thoughts on moving house.
How do you market houses in an intentional community? Some thoughts from 2003.
For a couple of years now I’ve been attempting to create some software products which could be sold to a wider market — beyond this small town. It’s a slow process.
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