A Beautiful Farm – By Julie Olsen

September 29th, 2004

Driven by natural selection, the bush gave rise to the macadamia. So it makes good sense to grow the two together, say farmers.

We sometimes forget that our country’s most successful native export was a product of the bush. And for tens of thousands of years, the two were inseparable. Read the rest of this entry »

Peter Singer support for Ecuador “Save a Hectare”

September 28th, 2004

Peter Singer has been called “the world’s most influential living philosopher,” by The New Yorker and Time Magazine listed him in “The Time 100,” their annual listing of the world’s 100 most influential people. He is DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne. Read the rest of this entry »