the little green guide

I’ve moved

marksmann — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:06:43 +0000

You can follow my blog at Ecoisms.com.au

You can buy the book The Little Green Guide at EcoShop.com.au

You can read the guide online at EcoDirectory.com.au

Ecoisms: Kevin Rudd’s a serial killer?

marksmann — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:03:47 +0000

US television reporter Erin Burnett has labelled Kevin Rudd a “serial killer” over Australia’s culling of feral camels.

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Ecoisms: Extinction, flooding, climate change… have you seen Miranda Kerr’s hair?

marksmann — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:27:38 +0000

Most of the Australian media missed it, but a survey out last week reported the world is in the midst of its “sixth great extinction event”, with Australia one of the planet’s worst extinction hotspots.

Continue reading: Extinction, flooding, climate change… have you seen Miranda Kerr’s hair?

Ecoisms: Sydney gets twice as much rain as London, why are we short of water?

marksmann — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:24:41 +0000

Sydney doesn’t need the $2 billion desalination plant. The Hunter doesn’t need the proposed $300 million Tillegra dam.

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Ecoisms: It’s what organic food leaves out that matters

marksmann — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:16:04 +0000

A new study says organic food has no more nutrients than conventional food. But the study leaves out some important points.

Continue reading: It’s what’s not in organic food that counts.

Ecoisms: Food is too cheap, not too expensive

marksmann — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:17:14 +0000

Food prices have doubled since 1980 but the real problem is that food is too cheap, not too expensive – and that comes at a cost to the soil that could compromise our future.

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Ecoisms: Is nuclear power the answer?

marksmann — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:49:26 +0000

Federal Opposition energy spokesman Ian Macfarlane has called for Australia to go nuclear. Is it the only answer to climate change?

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Ecoisms: how climate change can save farmers

marksmann — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:07:38 +0000

Global warming could just be the break our farmers need, if we start paying farmers to save us from climate change.

Now blogging at Ecoisms

marksmann — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:41:40 +0000

I’m now writing a regular Ecoisms blog for The Daily Telegraph, and I occasionally contribute to the EcoBlog at EcoDirectory.com.au. Please check out these blogs. I’ll add links to my blog posts on this site.

Liposuction – the answer to climate change

marksmann — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:52:42 +0000

Who’d have guessed? A new report links obesity to climate change. Fat people, believe it or not, eat more food and are more likely to haul their lardy arses around in cars than to get out the bike.

As George Monbiot points out in The Guardian, it’s unfair to blame fat people per se. Obesity is simply the most visible sign of the overconsumption that characterises our whole society. Food, cars, gadgets, toys, clothes… you name it, we’ve got too much of it.

On the other hand, working on the basis that every crisis is also an opportunity, there’s always liposuction. I’ve blogged before about the amazing Earthrace boat but what I didn’t mention was this.

OK, so it only went 15km on human fat, but it’s a start.