Some good advise

Mark Adcock Environment, Food for Thought

An old farmers advice * Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. * Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance. * Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. * A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. * Words that soak into your ears are whispered…not yelled. * Meanness don’t jes’ …

Birding at Ngepi

Mark Adcock Activities, Environment

Birding… The Rollinson and Bernon families recently did a trip to Botswana and the Caprivi Strip. “From here we moved onto Ngepi Camp, about 15km’s south of Divundu we were there for three nights and found it to be one of the more enjoyable camps. Birds seen in the campsite included Hatlaubs Babbler, Senegal Coucal, Chirping Cisticola, African Crake, Meyers Parrot, Golden …

Ngepi eco-socio policy

Mark Adcock Environment

So called progress is not stoppable I guess, but we suggest that a compromise can be reached where an area is set aside as a conservancy where rural local people can be respected for who they really are. Respect would entail a quantum shift in the understanding of the Westerner to a point where we understood and appreciated that people …

The right thing to do!

Mark Adcock Food for Thought

Objectives:- To start a ground swell of people who ‘do the right thing’ – buzz words of‘the right thing to do’ used in general conversation, as ‘doing the right thing’ will have a GREAT positive impact on all our futures An example would be the person confronted with the sudden decision to let someone into the traffic … or not,…. or …

Sane

Mark Adcock Food for Thought

—– Original Message —– From: SA New Economics (SANE) To: SANE Views Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 3:15 PM Subject: [SANE Views Vol.6, No.40] The Source of Hopelessness: A Review of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” A Deeper Look at Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” Catherine Austin Fitts served as Managing Director and Member of the Board of Directors of the Wall Street investment bank, …

The Paradox

Mark Adcock Food for Thought

The Paradox                      Isn’t it amazing that George Carlin – comedian of the 70’s and 80’s – could write something so very eloquent…and so very appropriate…. The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have …

Interesting Quotes

Mark Adcock Food for Thought

`If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us walk together. Lila Watson – Australian Aboriginal Leader “The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to …

The ten commandments of responsible living

Mark Adcock Food for Thought

1. Satisfy your needs without detracting from others. 2. Live to respect the right to life and development of others. 3. Safeguard the right to life and health of all growing and living things 4. Pursue happiness, freedom and fulfillment for self and in others. 5. Help those less privileged to live without hunger and penury. 6. Preserve or restore …