A bit different to my usual post but today is blog action day, and this year the topic is climate change.

Spurred on by an amazing presentation I went to last night from Carlo Petrini, the President of the Slow Food Movement, I am going to blog about food and climate change.  If you want to find out more about the Australian Slow Food Organisation go here.

Food production is a main cause of carbon emissions and when we go to the supermarket we are faced with products that come from all over the world, garlic from Mexico, snowpeas from China etc.  This is the main focus of the slow food movement, encouraging people to buy local produce or grow their own to reduce food miles and support local food producers.

Australians throw out 3 million tonnes of food a year (Planet Ark).  Apparently (this is from Carlo Petrini) worldwide enough food is produced to feed 12 billion people but 1 billion of the 6.3 billion people are suffering from malnutrition.  The breakdown of organic waste without oxygen in a landfill produces methane gas which absorbs 20 times more heat than carbon dioxide (again why people are worried about the cows farting).

I am going to finish up with some photos from our backyard, the compost just matured the other week so we have build a fenced veggie patch (not much planted just yet) and some of the veggies are coming into bloom.  The only one not excited in our house about the fenced garden is Lola, who has lost one of her digging areas…

I have just got a new advertising space on Easy Weddings

Check it out here.

It is really hard choosing where to advertise, especially since there are so many sites out there!

This site was recommended by a client a while ago and then the other week I got an offer to advertise for three months free!! Bonus!  It gives me a chance to see if it actually will increase the number of people coming to my site and blog to see my work (I think it has - it went up yesterday and I have got over 60 hits on the blog this morning!).  I have previously spent over $1000 on advertising on one site to not see any results which is really hard to take as a solo operator.  I was not going to advertise anywhere else after this mistake, but the trial offer changed my mind.

As I cannot post without an image and I am feeling cold and miserable already this winter, I am going to post my favourite image  from last summer where I got to have a weekend in Rottnest with the BF and friends.  Just to remind me that summer will be on the way in 5 months.