On Sunday 16th April, the Austin American-Statesman, our local paper, featured a story on an ex-banker who has converted “what was once grass into farmland,” describing how on half an…
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When is an Easter Bunny not a Bunny? When It’s a Hare
Just before Easter, year after year, pictures of “bunnies” start cropping up on the web.The trouble is many, perhaps most of these images do not show bunnies (rabbits) but hares.…
Read moreWhy I Happily ‘Waste’ Food
Food waste is presented in moral terms. It’s bad, even a sin, to waste food. This is a terrible way to frame the issue. Not wasting versus wasting is…
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