Strong southerly wind just hit us here in Congo (South Coast NSW). Temperature dropping quickly. It's come earlier than forecast.
@NSWRFS#RFS#fireAustralia#NSW
“Australia is embarking on its largest ever defence contract so that it can take the fight to China, yet there is no obvious reason to do so, and nobody asked us to do so.”
Read an extract from Sam Roggeveen’s book The Echidna Strategy: mnth.ly/nUQayLM
Traffic evaporation is a real outcome of sustained policy choices. Paris has reduced traffic by 40% in one decade and it’s a far more livable city because of it.
La pollution de l'air tue, nous ne pouvons regarder ailleurs.
À Paris, en diminuant la place de la voiture, nous avons fait baisser le trafic automobile de 40% en 10 ans, permettant de diminuer de 40% la pollution de l'air. Et nous allons continuer !
francetvinfo.fr/monde/enviro…
The Coalition could lose the next six elections because Millennials and Generation Z voters aren’t shifting towards conservatives as they get older, prompting five Liberal MPs to urge the party to transform its relationship with younger Australians. smh.com.au/politics/federal/…
Cycling in Sydney keeps growing...
- up 18% in the last year for peak hour bike trips across the WHOLE council area, not just cycleways
- on some cycleways, like Bourke & Castlereagh, bike trips up 40% in a year
#SydneyCycleways#BetterStreetsnews.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au…
.@JEChalmers You've just announced spending $360 billion on submarines. Now saying we have to tighten our belts .@RNBreakfast Why isn't this questioned?
90's music - should there be a renaissance?
Here are 200 of the best songs of that era - that shows actually it was pretty good.
open.spotify.com/playlist/45…
Last year, the Australian government allowed $11.6 billion in subsidies for fossil fuels - more than 50 times the yearly budget of the National Recovery and Resilience Agency smh.com.au/environment/clima…
Here's my music list for December - the Best of the 1970s. Did I miss anything? open.spotify.com/playlist/6T…...
(This is part of my College of Advanced Education course on popular music - for my son.)
A quarter of our car journeys are under two miles, creating congestion, pollution, danger and more. When more of us can cycle all of these problems are reduced and everyone wins. For short journeys, #BikeIsBest