Archive for January 30th, 2009
Al Gore Visits Washington
Posted by jennifer, January 30th, 2009 - under Humour, Opinion.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: none
With all due respect, we’re doomed. Read more here. To fly around the globe spewing carbon everywhere you go to be just like our former vice president. Read more here.
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New ‘Save the Sea Kittens’ Campaign
Posted by jennifer, January 30th, 2009 - under News.
Tags: Fishing
Comments: 6
Who could possibly want to put a hook through a sea kitten? Read more here. [Via Wes George]
A Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo and Two Messages for Australian Readers
Posted by jennifer, January 30th, 2009 - under Events, News.
Tags: Birds, People
Comments: 28
THIS beautiful bird, a Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo, has been sitting in a tree outside my study perhaps wondering when I am going to refill the bird-feeder with some bird seed. The few times I have walked outside this afternoon the bird has squarked, perhaps asking me to “fill it!”
Meanwhile I have been posting a couple of messages at the ‘Community [...]
Gillian Hogendyk Finalist in Rural Woman’s Award
Posted by jennifer, January 30th, 2009 - under Community, News.
Tags: People
Comments: 2
GILLIAN Hogendyk is passionate about the Macquarie Marshes and, with her husband Chris, is involved in the restoration of a block they purchased some years ago.
In part because of this work, Gillian has been selected as a finalist in this year’s NSW Rural Industry Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) Rural Women’s Award. The two other NSW finalists are [...]
Bob Carter to Visit Mittagong: February 19, 2009
Posted by jennifer, January 30th, 2009 - under Community.
Tags: People
Comments: 2
How Dangerous is Human-caused Climate Change?
The well-known climate scientist, Professor Robert (”Bob”) Carter, will be in Mittagong on Thursday 19 February at 6.30pm at Clubbe Hall, Frensham School, to give a Royal Society lecture [Royal Society NSW Southern Highlands branch] on the science of climate change.
Governments around the world are implementing Emissions Trading Schemes (ETS) to [...]

