Crusty Corner has re-opened at last after major renovation. Nigel was there 7.30am for a hot chocolate en route to his nearby landscape project. Lovely spring morning, view toward Dunedin Botanic Garden. Taken by Nigel 28 Sept 2018

re-Becoming Natural – Part 1

Before 1915 human population was naturally capped by Earth's natural nitrogen (N) pool to about  2 billion. Then Fritz Häber discovered how to produce N using natural gas. Rapid human population growth dates from this point [500Kb pdf]. We're heading for overshoot central. We need to see ourselves as natural - and start behaving like...