‘Organic’ is the latest buzzword, ‘natural’ the newest trend. Health and wellness has been extolled as the fastest growing industry in the world, and it’s only getting bigger. We’re finally overturning the Baby Boomers’ infatuation with chemicals, pharmaceuticals, synthesised everything and enough preservatives to make… Read More »Love Your Little Ones, Naturally
This is not the first time the Great Barrier Reef has been threatened, few of us will be aware of the 20 year struggle to prevent the most wondrous coral reef in the world from being destroyed by the unlikely trio of a poet, an… Read More »Free the reef
Living peacefully in the Byron Bay Hinterland with her husband and five children, Sherri Adams started on a mission to discover an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic cling wrap that could be used in the kitchen and keep her children’s school lunches fresh and free… Read More »WELLBEING WEDNESDAY: HONEYBEE WRAPS
A man died recently. As I write this, a family is in mourning, his friends are in shock and the community is stunned by the news of a second local shark incident in two days. The details are not important, suffice it to say that Tadashi Nakahara,… Read More »LIVING IN PEACEFUL OCEANS: IN HONOUR OF TADASHI NAKAHARA
While it’s almost impossible to talk about North Byron Parklands and the profusion of festivals in Byron Shire without getting into a heated discussion, one North Coast couple decided it was the perfect backdrop to celebrate their wedding anniversary. As thousands were preparing to ring… Read More »THE PARKLANDS PLEDGE
When was the last time you saw global warming? We’ve all seen the charts and read the stats, but have you ever tripped over a pile of greenhouse emissions, got scalded by a drastically heated ocean, been sucker punched by rogue freons or needed to… Read More »GARY TABOR: WAKE-UP CALL
Australian audiences will be able to immerse themselves in the wonders of the ocean without getting their feet wet this March as the Ocean Film Festival hits cinemas across the country. The festival, which features 11 of the world’s most captivating ocean-themed short films, and 6… Read More »Ocean Film Festival
It’s hard, in this world of hidden agendas, sweatshop labour and high street fashion, to be ethical in our choices. We are lucky here in Byron Bay to have access to wonderfully natural and organic foods and a host of locally manufactured craftwares and apparel,… Read More »GLEN CASEY: THE RIGHT KIND OF BUSINESS
So apparently I’m insane. Well, insane is maybe a little too strong a term, but definitely drastically eccentric. Funny – I thought I was a pretty grounded individual running my own journalism-slash-media business, not bumming off taxpayers, thinking globally, acting locally and generally being a… Read More »Through Blinkered Eyes
The Black-necked Stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) is a tall long-necked wading bird in the stork family. Over the past few years one or sometimes two Black-necked Storks visit the shire. Currently a juvenile near adult male and a female have been spotted at the wetlands, Brunswick… Read More »The Jabiru Bird
