Eat Food, mostly plants not too much. Some of you will recognise those seven words. They are from Michael Pollan’s seminal work In Defence of Food. I have read this book twice. Once a few years ago when it made an impression and again this month when the wisdom of the words hit home - … Continue reading The Rise of Nutritionism
Category: environment
Floods and fires
The eastern coast of Australia has been on the wrong side of nature’s umbrella since the beginning of the year. The drought that had given us the tinder box which ignited into devastating bushfires in the Black Summer of 2019-20 was replaced by floods of near biblical proportions in March 2022. Communities in the very … Continue reading Floods and fires
Plogging along.
The last Sunday in October has been a standing date in my diary for the last decade or so. This is the day the Seven Bridges Walk (SWB) is normally held. The Seven Bridges Walk is a 30-ish km walk around the foreshores of Sydney. (You can see the route in the Alltrails app) It … Continue reading Plogging along.