A sunny afternoon at Barringwood Estate
Reading Time: < 1 minute Sipping sparkling wine among rolling green hills is hard to beat on a sunny afternoon. I know this because I
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How to naturally purify the air in your house
Reading Time: < 1 minute In the late 1980s, America’s space agency (NASA) studied house plants as a way to clean the air in their
Read moreSave the lobsters
Reading Time: < 1 minute Earlier this year I wrote about LaPoinya and logging in Tasmania’s old growth forests. Many months later, the fight to save this ecologically
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The wondrous Pelican Pick
Reading Time: 2 minutes Is it a spade, a rake, a pick or one of those toothy creatures from Alien? Actually, it is pretty much
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A recent science article reports that our cave dwelling ancestors were often victims of bears and sabre-tooth cats and human bones
Read moreAutumn mulching
Reading Time: < 1 minute Autumn is a great time to rake up all the leaves scattered around the garden to use as mulch. A
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Can you be friends with someone who doesn’t believe in climate change?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently, a work colleague told me that her decision to leave tropical Queensland for North West Tasmania was motivated by temperature rises. She
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Lapoinya’s secret weapon in the fight to save Tasmania’s old-growth forests
Reading Time: 6 minutes “Where’s the hope?” my friend Dave asks as we drive through plantations of recently felled trees. Piles of twisted branches lie
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