Toward a World that Works for Everyone
There are not as many current stories on the extent of the Australian bushfires as there have been in past weeks. When few accounts appear, we may scale down our reportage. Bushfires rage in Canberra A month on from devastating bushfires, residents in Mt Maria face a long road to recovery Now hail…. Started […]
Cultural burning is proactive, while Western-style controlled burning, also called hazard reduction burning, is reactive. To Help Australia, Look to Aboriginal Fire Management By Abaki Beck, Common Dreams, January 15, 2020 https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/15/help-australia-look-aboriginal-fire-management Since September 2019, Australia has been ravaged by bushfires. You know the statistics: about 18 million acres burned, around 2,000 homes destroyed, and […]
Thank you to Linda in Canberra for this post. The Golden Age of Gaia does not believe that the major cause of the bushfires is climate-related, but manmade. (1) By Marianna Gonzalez, January 8, 2020 Ecovegan Spirit I was moved to tears by this video and still am every time I remember it. It shows […]
Up to 50 millimetres of rain has fallen across parts of New South Wales and Victoria in Australia, dampening bushfires. Despite the relief, there are still dozens of other blazes continuing to burn. The weather bureau has warned that the heavy downpour can lead to a number of issues, such as flash floods, landslides, falling […]
Sweet relief, Jan. 16, 2020 East Coast rain bomb, Jan. 15 Anger turning on Prime Minister More of this please!
Rain ‘psychologic plus’ for NSW farmers Ashlea Witoslawski, Australian Associated Press, January 16, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/rg8ejdd Rain may give farmers the chance to plant “opportunity crops” in NSW but it won’t break the drought with dry and warm weather expected into February. Farmers struggling to survive NSW’s devastating drought say this week’s rain is “psychologically positive” […]
Folks, we’ve had the first rains in Australia. Granted that they were themselves problematic by causing flooding, (1) they did impact the bushfire situation in the area in which they fell. The tendency would be to think and say that our prayers for intercession and our meditation on rain (which are both uses of the […]
What’s going on in the world holds our close attention. From fires in Australia to flooding in Jakarta, from earthquakes in Puerto Rico to volcanoes all over the globe. And here I am writing about Ascension and loving. It feels incongruous. My instructions are to look at these matters from a neutral place, without making-wrong. […]
Linda wrote in to “Contact Us” saying the numbers in my January 13th post, “National Geographic: How Many Animals are Affected by Australia’s Disaster? are much greater now. She said that she lives in Canberra, Australia, where “the air pollution from the bushfires has been at 26 times the hazardous level.” Thank you, Linda, for […]
Rain, flash floods and thunderstorms sweep over Melbourne Naaman Zhou, Guardian, Jan. 15, 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/15/rain-flash-floods-and-thunderstorms-sweep-over-melbourne The rain is forecast to reach bushfire-hit parts of New South Wales and Victoria later this week Heavy rain, flash floods and severe thunderstorms have swept over Melbourne and rain is forecast to hit bushfire-affected parts of New South Wales […]
January 14, 2020 “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” ~ Anatole France After lengthy and intensifying drought, more than one hundred Australian bushfires began burning in the states of Queensland and New South Wales in September 2019. After five months, the horrific infernos are still blazing, unabated to […]
The post (below) on homeless women in Australia was written on October 10th, 2019, World Homeless Day. With the bushfires, what might the situation be like now? I was walking down the street where I live yesterday and an older woman was begging for money. Usually I see men, occasionally a woman with a man. […]
Planes Drop Thousands Of Kilograms Of Carrots And Potatoes For Starving Animals Emma Rosemurgey, Unilad, Jan. 12, 2019 https://www.unilad.co.uk/animals/planes-drop-thousands-of-kilograms-of-carrots-and-potatoes-for-starving-animals/ Aircraft are being used to drop thousands of kilograms of carrots and sweet potato to hungry wildlife stranded amid the Australian bushfire crisis. The New South Wales government commissioned the service titled ‘Operation Rock Wallaby’ which […]
People lived here for 60,000 years and we didn’t listen to them Some communities face financial ruin “Worst season in living memory” Former PM Tony Abbott lends a hand Protesters blame Prime Minister The cost in animal lives now estimated at 1 billion Acknowledging those assisting the RFS
National Geographic: How Many Animals are Affected by Australia’s Disaster? By Rachael Bale, National Geographic Newsletter, January 9, 2020 500 million animals? If you’ve been keeping up with the news of the Australia fires, you may have seen this statistic going around. It comes from University of Sydney professor Chris Dickman, and he explained that […]
