PacificEdge

Truth can be hard to determine when eyewitness accounts, conflicting beliefs and emotions influence what people write. Those things muddy…

Australia’s prospects in a Trump resurrection

I’ve just published a piece about blogging over on Permaculture Journal.

From time to time we remember people whom we lost contact with long ago. For me, Des Shield was one of those people.

The world of the late-Twentieth century is history. It took a mere 20 years for the world to lurch from the semi-stable state it inherited…

When the internet came along it changed much for voluntary community organisations. Not always for the better. This story is a thought…

A review of Laurence Gonzales’ Deep Survival-Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

Making a brew on road or track stimulates the biochemicals and readies us for the steep climb ahead or to bring to an end that long drive…

THE BIOLITE CAMPSTOVE is a handy doo-dah for car campers who like cooking over a fire. Fill the device with twigs, light it and there you…

WE DRIVE the winding road, first though the tall trees of the temperate rainforest then onto the open alpine plateau. How different it is…

There are many tales of the pandemic. This is one of them.

PUSHED by strong winds, the dark clouds stream across our southern skies and release their load of moisture as dark curtains of cold rain…