THE MEANING OF OZ - All you need to know!

Hi TF, must have been years ago! Vinyl floor tiles and government doing it's own printing! AGPS is long dead (died with DAS I believe) - that probably predates new parly house being built (I had a mate who worked on it before I moved to the ACT)

Australia's efficient use of food production

http://hungrybeast.abc.net.au/stories/beast-file-food-waste

Nothing new there hinge but thanks for reminding people. I've been aware of most of those stats for many years.
It would be good to see food waste being processed as fertiliser in order to return it to the land from whence it came.

100 litres of water to produce one apple is another stat I'm aware of.

Of course one must be carefull of "stats". Much of the water cited in these stats as used in food production is natural rainfall.
Converting grain to protien (meat) results in a net energy loss (mostly as heat and unfully digested grain) Which is why asian food production tends to be directed at cropping rather than livestock.

Yeah Dad, I know it's nothing new and agree it's nice to remind people, and you are absolutely correct that the water usage stats are misleading in that they give the impression the water comes from a tap.

It's the stats on fruit/veg rejected by the supermarkets because it 'isn't pretty enough' that get to me. We get organic vegies delivered and a new farmers market at Aeroglen has just opened and we are huge fans of supporting local producers. (fallen bananas are cheap and fantastic after we dry them).

My other bug bear that the beast file doesn't go into is the carbon cost of moving produce to capital city distribution points and then shipping it back to the stores all over the state (often in production areas). And don't get me started on American lemons in Cairns Coles.

Mumpad tells me bannanas are/were $12.00 per kilo here last week. but a friend recently arrived home from after short holiday on the gold coast saw bananas for $2.25/ kilo.

Wow - Tolga bananas (unaffected by cyclone, but small and marked - tasty though) aren't that cheap in Cairns - either bananas are going the way of milk or the philipino bananas are here!

Prices where I live fluctuate, on almost a daily basis.
The last time I looked, they were close to $4 a kilo.
At the green grocer's ... much more expensive at the supermarket.

I just read this, dp.
Very, very funny!

One American's take on Australia

He's funny.
Got any more from where that came from, hinge?

Wallas, woms and carrier.
Am I allowed to say lol?

L blooy OL

Haha! Thanks for pointing to the link, dadpad.

Only a few more days to catch Shaun Tan's 'The lost thing' on iView (don't think this link works outside Oz
http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/program/745317

Weird to think I used to see his stuff on Aurealis when he was still a teen.

Damn.
iview tells me that it's not available, hinge.

How stupid of me - I opened the iView session a week ago and have only just got around to watching it - I guess I should consider myself lucky I had the sense to even do that. If you get a chance Olgs it's worth the fifteen minutes just for the visuals. Nice music, Tim Minchin narration and sadsweet story make it lovely.

OK, hinge.
I'll give it another go then & see what happens.

Nope.
Tried a search & it's not there.

Dang, no way you going to see it without buying the DVD. Sorry.

No worries, hinge.
It might turn up, you never know.
These things sometimes happen.

Jon Lajoie is coming to Australia
Can't imagine how he will go down, crazy canadian. Bastard isn't even coming to Queensland let alone Cairns.

Tickets here if you're weird....
http://www.bigtix.com.au/ArtistsList.aspx?CategoryID=230&selection=550