Green Drinks, Brisbane, Friday 15th October.
Met Anya van Goor who runs Flowers of the World, 178 Grey Street, Brisbane. She described how she has always been a florist, but began to suffer allergies and then got cancer. Her doctor remarked “ something is poisoning you” and she realised it was the chemicals incl Roundup and herbicides present in the cut flowers she was selling. So now everything she sells is organic. Her daughter was born with digestive probs, probably as a result of her mother’s endocrine disruption - see Theo Colborn’s book for WWF but was healed over time by a natural doctor.
Her daughter is now part of the Queensland environmental youth council. We shall want to make contact with von Lippe Bistefelt the Sister of the Dutch Queen, who created Nature College to expose Politicians to the need to understand the role of nature in our lives.
Tony Hall - The life and death of the Australian Backyard - showing how Australians work the most whitecollar hours of most OECD countries, compared to the happy go lucky atmosphere prevaliing in the 1980s. Australia has adopted the American model of living, taking on air conditioned cars and houses, and not living in accordance with its natural environment, such that now it has become hugely energy intensive
Tim Davies has been working for Cundall engineers for the University of Queensland, discovering that for 83% of the year, buildings in Queensland can survive without air conditioning or heating just with a bit of airflow.
CSIRO - the Australian National Scientific Research Office has done some work on how Australia can adapt to climate change, rather than mitigate it.
Chris
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