Happy National Tree Day Australia! [Early this morning on the Garawarra Trail in Royal National Park]
Ricki Coughlan
@rickicoughlan.bsky.social
Herbivore 🦕 Bird Observer 🦜 Rainforest Flaneur 🐍 Author 📗 Rational Humanist 👩🏻🔬 Green Eco Socialist Future! 🌏 She/Her on Dharawal country
Yesterday I stood for over half an hour in the most stunning of wet sclerophyll forests surrounded by five male Golden Whistlers in stunning peak plumage, locked in territorial battle in glorious song and rapid flybys and pursuits. I watched mesmerised, immersed in the beauty of the moment and /1
The state of Variegated Fairy-wrens around Sydney right now. I'm going to launch a YouTube channel in a few weeks were I will be taking a deep dive into the fundamentals of how and why we see plumages of male fairy-wrens evolve through their lives and seasons, and why fairy-wrens are fairy-wrens!
It's very odd that even if we live in political democracies we don't live in economic democracies and we never seem to question this. We're enmeshed in a capitalist system where very few control capital and the means of production, so we've little choice in how we live and our environmental impact.
Free speech is pretty easy . . . one's words should not be detrimental to the freedom or safety of another and, in Nelson Mandela's words, "The purpose of freedom is to create it for others". #auspol #speech #freespeech #NelsonMandela
Fruits of the White Beech Tree on Lady Carrington Drive, Royal NP. They're awaiting the Brown Cuckoo Doves, Wonga Pigeons, Green Catbirds and Satin Bowerbirds who will enjoy them. Any which they break up and leave will be eaten by the Yellow-throated Scrubwrens who make this patch their home #birds
Happy International Day for Biodiversity! Acting locally means personal actions, let's consider our choices and their impact on the earth: what we consume, supply chains, what we eat, how we travel, who we vote for. You and I are part of this. www.cbd.int/biodiversity... #BiodiversityDay #nature
When we hear a bird sing, it's a moment of connection between two minds. In our cities, full of white noise, we learn to tune out. My next book (out soon) will lead the reader into tuning in: learning to listen through the layers of sound in our natural environments; learning who is saying what.
I have long held to the sensibility that our understanding or experience of #consciousness and #sentience may not be the only experience of these things . . . Broadening our vision in these respects is the doorway to deeper, more profound, immersive and meaningful experiences in #nature
The Science of Animism | Atmos
As Western science’s circle of consciousness widens, as more people open themselves to Indigenous teachings, a new animism is surging forth.
atmos.earth
I feel that people who wave Australian flags on ANZAC Day knowingly or not cross the line from honouring the fallen into supporting the patriarchal nationalist constructs which are used to deceive young people into the idea that imperialist wars for wealth and power are somehow righteous.
The goal of effective communication is mutual understanding, not necessarily winning the argument. Argument and insults don't change minds, they close minds. Conversations which open awareness to arrive at better conclusions begin by offering dignity and creating grounds for mutual respect . . . 1/2
In the year 66788 the constellations will all be unrecognisable and the Southern Cross no more In the year 66788 Australia and New Guinea will be 4.5 kilometres further north from their current position . . . 1/5
I always have a little chuckle when I'm standing in a beautiful forest and someone comes up to me and says "Have you seen anything good today?"
Another fine mixed seed and sweet potato damper. So quick and easy to make and so tasty. Self raising flour, salt, water, seeds and puréed sweet potato. There’s endless variations you can do of this simple wholesome bread.
Done. My wholefood vegan kitchen now has 4 months supply which I've stocked up over 6 weeks. Grains, beans, nuts, seeds spices, polenta, semolina, flours, dals, dried fruit, canned goods, home canned fruit. I'm a scratch cook and also know how to wildcraft greens and roots. I'm ready/prep'd.
Mark Zuckerberg's new 87.5 metre yacht with helipad and four massive diesel engines. This isn't wealth or a healthy aspiration, this is a terrible illness. I actually cried for him when I saw this.
"Growth" is shrinking. It's shrinking the living world. It's shrinking our lives. It's shrinking our futures, it's shrinking our possibilities and it's shrinking our humanity. We must explore economies and systems based on a planet where there's space for all species, for need, not "wants".
As a field ornithologist and nature educator who has banded hundreds of birds I would like to say we need to stop this. We need to stop opening them up and putting GPS trackers in them. What more do good hearted, right headed people need to know to conserve them and be in awe and wonder at them?
When I consider all I've seen over the last 60 of my almost 68 years, we need to own all that's about to drop on us. We could have chosen respect for all species, dignity for every human, a thriving Earth and systems and lives and know-how which supported all this. We chose lies and greed instead.
It requires around .75 of a tonnes of coal to make the steel for the average car in China. In China they create around 2 tonnes of CO2 to manufacture 1 tonne of steel. In 2025 alone China made 34.53 million cars and at least 4 million trucks each year. We're not going to tech our way out of this.
@albomp.bsky.social should not cut the fuel excise. The price is currently right for the supply situation. If the price is cut, antisocial types will rush out with jerry cans and deplete our supply.
here thou beholdest even in a dumb brute, the instinct of the knowledge of the demonism in the world
I've been plant based since 1974. Here's my supplements: • B12, daily or very regularly • D3, I get adequate sun most of the year but still supplement • Iodine, Iodised salt or three sheets of Nori every day or two • Blackstrap molasses, 1 tablespoon daily. I have the same advice for meat eaters.
Whenever I tell anyone I'm moving onto a gorgeous sub tropical property in the hills just off the coast with stunning rainforest full of birds and wildlife, where we're building a permaculture farm and food forest and I'm building a tiny house they say, "This is my dream too" . . . Later this year.
