Food Systems doer & thinker in the messy middle. Ex-farmer financing & building regional FoodSheds. @FoodConnectShed @OpenFoodNet @FoodConnectFdt
Brisbane, Australia
Joined June 2009
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It's the Waltons' food system--we're all just farming, shopping, and eating it.
For this story, I looked into what the implications of the country's biggest grocer and the world's richest family talking about and directing resources toward "regenerative agriculture" might be...
In 2020, Walmart declared it would become a “regenerative company.”
Some insiders say that would require downsizing supply chains, integrating costs, and raising prices, which “goes against every grain of their corporate culture.” buff.ly/3QitfNS
Robert Pekin retweeted
My gosh … we all need to sit up and take note!
Thank You @MrRexPatrick
Just finished watching a documentary called The illusion of democracy… who really controls our live. A good watch indeed.
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My tweet yesterday seemed to surprise many on who really owns Rio Tinto. 👇Here’s👇 a slightly dated article that will open people’s eyes further to the level of foreign ownership in ‘our’ companies. BHP, CBA, CSL, NAB - hardly big Australians. #auspol theconversation.com/worried-…
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📢This high-level roadmap proposes recommendations for all actors within the financial landscape on integrating the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, #KMGBF, within their policies and decision-making processes.
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ccli.ubc.ca/resource/high-le…
Love a good language teaser
Frontiers | The Holobiont Blindspot: Relating Host-Microbiome Interactions to Cognitive Biases and the Concept of the “Umwelt” frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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An extremely brave woman jumps from plane to plane to mid-air to change a landing gear. 1926.
How the city pulled off one of the most pro-housing reforms in America by playing nice. reasonstobecheerful.world/po…
'(Portland) ...made new single-family homes of over 2,500 square feet illegal. It erased bans on “middle housing” — a term describing duplexes, triplexes, 4plexes..
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Our Director of CWB, Sarah McKinley, presented with @KTrebeck to the Baltic State's "We Make Transition" Initiative on the Wellbeing Economy and local economic system change. Check out the video! #CommunityWealthBuilding
youtube.com/watch?v=jHgVWZ35…
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Looking forward to this one!
Set aside 12:30pm-1:30pm Thur 29th June for the next Saving the World Webinar. Guest speaker @ProfCarlRhodes will share his insights on "The Myths of the Good Billionaire", joined by @SharonFrielOz & @NicholasVFrank
For more information and to register: hothouse.anu.edu.au/event/my…
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Labor, Libs & Nats refuse to even discuss taxing windfall profits. Why are they putting the interests of fossil fuel companies ahead of Australians?
We’ve copped ⬆️ energy prices & now paying even more $ with interest rates ⬆️ due to profit-fuelled inflation.
A report by the OECD into the drivers of inflation challenges the official view of the Reserve Bank and federal Treasury | @swrighteconomy #ausecon smh.com.au/politics/federal/…
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A key 2023 political-economic-media-policy barney has been: 'What is driving inflation?'.
The OECD has made the call. It's profits.
(blue is tax, green is profits, red is wages) #auspol
oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ce18…
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On Tuesday night Philip Lowe compared labour costs with CPI. But he forget the 32% of the economy that is profits, so I helped him out
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This is pretty exciting
A low overhead food space for lease where you get to co-create and collaborate with our 30 other amazing enterprises
Brisbane cafe and retail expressions of interest — Food Connect Shed foodconnectshed.com.au/cafe-…
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Clear warning from the Director General of @WHO, @DrTedros:
"Electronic cigarettes are a trap to recruit children, not part of harm reduction".
healthpolicy-watch.news/e-ci…
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If you are concerned about drought stress on crops, you should only apply urea or amino acid nitrogen in season sidedress. Ammonium or nitrate applied earlier can increase a crop’s water requirement by upwards of 30%.
More tips for drought stress reversal in an upcoming webinar
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The Murray-Darling Basin Authority has written to PwC seeking assurances that confidential information contained in audit and river modelling contracts worth more than $28m has not been shared. theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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List of PwC names in tax scandal now up to 67. Senate committee frustrated that only 4 have been released despite weeks of asking
PwC #protectionracket says Pocock