Veronika Wild

  Post - Fukushima Anti Nuclear Protest - India 2011 This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC It must be time to dig out that old 1980's t- shirt again -the one that says “The Earth is Flat, Pigs might Fly and Nuclear Power is Safe.” Never one to waste a good crisis -the nuclear power industry is coming out in force to promote itself as the answer to climate change, the answer to looming gas shortages and soaring energy prices in Europe, in response to a UK summer that didn’t bring enough wind or sunshine and to the "unprecedented" floods in Australia. In a perfect world, the new generation of small modular nuclear reactors might well be safer than previous ones, but we don’t live in a perfect world as will become abundantly clear. In a very unequal discussion on television this week, a poll was quoted claiming that it showed that 70% of young people in Australia would support the use of nuclear power against climate change. I would want to see who...

Yes, I Know it's bad for the footpath, but I couldn't help liking it anyway. "This was an experiment by kindergarten children. They dropped seeds into cracks in the pavement to see what would happen"         per Giles Paley- Phillips Twitter.com   Have my own little impromptu experiment going in the backyard. I usually drink my coffee here, but it's been wet over the last week or so. This vine is quite remarkable - it's a hop I think. I have cut it back hard repeatedly, but it comes back with a vengeance. It's so much more enthusiastic than the plants I plant deliberately and nurture with great care. Looks like I'll have to try to make a trellis for it, which would give me a nice shady spot in the summer. Who am I to quarrel with nature? There's little enough of it around.   By the way, it's only a small thing but in solidarity with Ukraine, son and friends have stopped eating at McDonald's and have protected all Ukrainian players in their ...