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fathers day
Happy first fathers day my big papa monkey! Thanks for looking after me and being my friend. I specially like it when you say “ha!” and when we play our laughing game. You are the best dad i ever had, and my mum likes you too. Sorry there’s been no tools yet… love maya.
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Don’t Pulp Our Future
This week the Greens will be voting no to Gunns’ proposed polluting chemical and pulp mill. You elected us to parliament to represent the community, not to be a rubber stamp for big business who represent only the interests of their shareholders, and often against the long-term interests of Tasmania. If built the pulp mill…
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Death to the Gunns Pulp Mill!
THE Gunns pulp mill may add 280 jobs to the Tasmanian economy but at a cost of an extra 216 lives lost in extra deaths from respiratory disease and log truck accidents. In addition, the negative impact of the pulp mill will cost 1044 jobs in the tourism industry and at least 175 jobs in…
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Happy Birthday to Me!
32 Already! The years sure do fly by.
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Off to Bali….
counting down the hours now… not many to go! We’ll be staying at Pacung Indah – if you’re going to be in Bali in the next couple of months, let’s hook up!
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See Hippies on TV! (onya Ben)
Tasmania’s Southern ForestsStill Wild Still Threatened Protecting Tasmania’s Forests – A Real Climate Change Solution Help Tassie’s forests feature on national prime time television in the lead up to the federal election. OUR ADS MESSAGEDeforestation contributes more to global greenhouse gas emissions annually than the transport sector.Ending native forest logging in Tasmania is equivalent to…
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Our online store is currently offline
Viridescens: Our online store is currently offline Our online store is currently down while we work through our end of financial year accounting and prepare for our impending work in Perth and Bali. We wish to send a huge thanks to all our clients and customers over the past year and look forward to working…
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I’ve harped on about Google a fair bit over the years – but i do like some of the stuff google.org is doing on climate change
It’s All About Reversing Global Warming The climate crisis requires a radical reduction of greenhouse gases to minimize the impact on human health and the environment. Greenhouse gas emissions from energy use are responsible for over two-thirds of global emissions, therefore curbing this threat will require a major transformation in how we make and use…
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A clean energy update from Google
Posted by Dan Reicher, Director, Climate and Energy Initiatives, Google.org Today Google.org is launching an exciting project that offers a glimpse of a smarter energy future: cars that plug into an electric grid powered by solar energy. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (“plug-in hybrids”) can achieve 70 -100 miles per gallon, quadrupling the fuel economy of…
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Irrepressible Adj. 1) Impossible to repress or control.
Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world – are cracking down on freedom of expression.Amnesty International, with the…