Composting’s role in the fight against climate change will be in focus during International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW), to be held from May 5-11 in Australia. Amid the increasing frequency of extreme weather events such as flooding, droughts or bushfires, composting offers a practical, hands-on response to climate change mitigation where every household can join the global effort.…
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By James Moore “Four wheels move the body, but two wheels move the soul.” – Unknown There are roads that unspool in the memory as elegantly as they do under your wheels. Travel them once and vivid imagery remains available for recall. They need not wind through mountains or course along ocean shores, but…
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Here’s what makes Blinken’s job in China especially difficult“Overcapacity” and “dual-purpose trade” are catchphrases to hide the fact that Washington is getting trounced in the economy of the future
BY Bradley Blankenship
Get ready for an outright recession if this comes true: After several months of hotter-than-expected data, Mr Hogan has jettisoned his forecast for the RBA to stay on hold until early 2025 and then deliver a rate cut. Instead, the veteran economist now expects 0.25 of a percentage point rate rises at the RBA’s August,
Great story from Caixin. As China’s real estate market continues to defy government efforts to bring it back to life, market players and analysts trying to call the bottom are out of signposts. Historically in China, it would typically take three to eight months for loosened monetary policy and credit support to reverse a down
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Last week, apartment developer Tim Gurner said the quiet bit out loud when he admitted that relaxing planning rules won’t magically boost housing construction: “Rich Lister and Melbourne developer Tim Gurner says while the anti-development stance adopted by many councils is a major roadblock, it is only a part of problem”. “He estimated that less
BHP going big: BHP is doubling down on its big bet on copper demand growing exponentially in the global shift away from fossil fuels, with a bold takeover bid for British resources heavyweight Anglo American that values it at almost $60 billion. Copper only contributed a third of Anglo’s profits last year. Anglo does have
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I was listening to Upgrade, one of my fave tech podcasts this week, and they were talking about reviews. Specifically, they were discussing ‘the controversy’ over Marques Brownlee’s takedown of the Humane AI pin, which was brutal. I know of Brownlee, although I don’t follow him. And I’ve seen a few posts about that pin, which was very Weapons of Choice in the way it was supposed to work, shooting lasers from a chest badge onto your hand or some surface in front of you, or something.
But apparently, it’s a bit of a dud, and Brownlee called it as such.