Category: Environment

How Big Are Your Balls? Tackling foil waste ...

6/5/2015

Image found on Refoil website

It may seem no price is too high for the woman flaunting her freshly styled hair. She's worth it, all-too-familiar commercials tell us, and naturally, so are you.

Australians have flocked to hair salons, highlighting their locks, for around thirty years. Foiling has become popular thanks to the simplicity it offers.

But while aluminium foil gives with one hand, it takes with the other, stripping the earth of precious resources. Processing foil costs us massive amounts of energy and water. -->

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The Road to Everywhere

20/7/2014

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My grandfather worked as a Shepherd when he was a young man growing up in Lebanon.

The father of my own would spend his days roaming the mountains and valleys of a country you can drive around in a day, guiding the goats that relied on him for protection.

This was no easy job. Sometimes it was dangerous. My grandfather would weave his way through cedar-flecked villages, withstanding the elements and doing his best to keep out of trouble. For this, he needed good sense, and even better navigation skills. Luckily for him, he had both.

So you would think he’d pass this inner compass down to his oldest grandchild? -->

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A Reef Worth Saving

10/1/2014

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Great Barrier Reef by Eulinky @ flickr.com

As a child I always imagined that I would someday be a marine biologist. My days were spent dreaming of a future swimming with dolphins and prodding squishy things with strange contraptions, my hair full of sand.

That’s pretty much all that I expected marine biology to be, so you can see why I never went down that path.

Even so, I’ve always been enchanted by the ocean.

One happy day I travelled to Queensland with my dad and brother to visit the Great Barrier Reef, one of the seven natural wonders that Australia proudly claims. -->

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How Big Are Your Balls? Tackling foil waste ...

The Road to Everywhere

A Reef Worth Saving

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