One of the world’s great challenges is feeding a growing global population. However, at it’s simplest, there is enough food being produced to supply the current population (7.3 billion people at time of writing) and many more, but the issue is distribution of unused or superfluous food. Food waste isContinue Reading
Corey Harris, civil engineer and architect, came to the ‘prepper’ perspective in his late-twenties. After years of research, he bought a secluded parcel of land, set deep within the tall eucalypts in the Blue Mountains. It took Corey eight years to build a four-bedroom house, which, to the casual observer,Continue Reading
A Hobson’s choice is one in which only a single realistic option is available and any other options are illusionary or unrealistic. To meet their family’s financial needs, many parents find that there is little choice but for both to be working. Where support from extended family or friends isContinue Reading
Buying Electric Cars: The Tech and Pricing The Guardian Australia’s article, “Should I buy an electric car? All you need to know about prices, technology and range” provides useful information about the current technology deployed in commercially-available electric cars and pricing. While price is still a block for many people,Continue Reading
During the 20 years of my Digital Advertising career, I have often been challenged to describe what I do. Everyone is aware of the little boxes of annoying imagery that are scattered around a webpage like clickable square confetti, but try explaining how that advertisement for a bank, airline orContinue Reading
Las Vegas is an oasis of dazzling light set within the vast Mojave Desert in the US state of Nevada. Fortunes are won and lost nightly in the seemingly endless casinos that make up the public face of the city. A population boom occurred in 1931 when construction of theContinue Reading
The July 2018 rescue of twelve children and their soccer coach from a flooded Thai cave system, which involved a multinational team of over one thousand rescuers, thrust into global spotlight the extraordinary people and planning required to perform such a feat. The death of Saman Gunan during the sameContinue Reading
Years of ‘fake news’, vested interests, confused public debate and weak government policy has generated a haze of white noise drowning out sensible discussion around how to switch from fossil fuel-based power generation to clean (often renewable) alternatives. Global Agreements The Paris Agreement came into force in November 2016 andContinue Reading
