Bittner and Twisted

It’s great to see support  for climate affected communities.  Drought, bushfire and flood.   Just spending to support them misses the point.  Unconscious spending got us into this mess.   Lets try a little conscious spending to get us out. It’s going to be hard but not as hard as it will be in a few years time.  So to the government's 2 billion aid package - that should have carbon neural status - if the government offset it before it gave it out - it would be easy.   Or if they had the zero carbon policies in place then handing out the money knowing that the way people would spend it would mean that it would be carbon neutral - but that’s just a dream right now.   Don’t ask me how carbon neutrality will happen in Australia but I am sure there are some smart people out there who can work that out. - It might be that every house that is rebuilt must be 7.5 stars in energy efficiency, low emissions summer and winter.  Off grid for...

Thích Quảng Đức last words before his self immolation were... “ Before closing my eyes and moving towards the vision of the Buddha, I respectfully plead to President Ngô Đình Diệm to take a mind of compassion towards the people of the nation and implement religious equality to maintain the strength of the homeland eternally. I call the venerables, reverends, members of the sangha and the lay Buddhists to organize in solidarity to make sacrifices to protect Buddhism.” Holidays abroad are great.   They expose us to new and exciting things.   They are a learning opportunity - that’s if we are open minded.   History also teaches us many things.   Holidays and history combined while visiting Vietnam recently where we learned the story of Thích QuảngĐức . He was a Vietnamese Buddest Monk whose self immolation in 1963 in protest at the persecution of Buddhists led to the overthrow of the South Vietnamese Government and the assasination of their leader Ngô Đình...