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Pedal Power

7/14/2012

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I always try to make informed decisions that consider health, environment and fairness. To do this requires a bit of reading so thats how I have justified one of my old habits...and thats getting the Financial Review delivered every Saturday. Of course this may change with the online debate, pay for view, but for now it is one of my vices I can't give up. Like chocolate for some or Pizza deliverywhen you are too tired to move from your chair.
Any way we all know that money, for most, is our master and seeing where business is heading and global markets are trending is interesting.
A very interesting story was one that features every week called "pedal power" where they interview some CEO or politician about their love of cycling. Cycling has taken over from golf as the activity of choice for the power brokers. 
Mayor of Banyule City Council, Tom Melican, admitted to cycling up to 300kms a week and owning 10 bikes, however he also explained he commutes to work everyday for the past 35 years and does not own a car. He loves riding home late after a council meeting when there are no cars on the road and enjoys the relaxation, peace and quite. His one tip, just ride every day, the more you ride the more you enjoy it and riding in the rain is not a problem, it's only water and on cold days, well this just makes nice days more enjoyable.

I'm not sure about his duties as a Mayor but he certainly has contributed to his overall health, saved himself some money and done his bit for the environment long before it was fashionable to get on the deadly treadly

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The Wealth Of Nature

7/2/2012

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Well WA is finally getting some decent rain so we are inside catching up on some reading.
I wanted to share some thought provoking words from "The Wealth of Nature Economics as if survival mattered" By John Michael Greer.
"To a very great extent, indeed, the last 300 years of economic expansion have been driven by a borrowing binge even more colossal, and ultimately more catastrophic, than the one that began its implosion in 2008. The difference is that instead of borrowing from banks we borrowed from the earths stockpile of fossil carbon, and squandered most of out borrowings on vaster equivalents of the salad shooters and granite countertops that absorb so much ficticious value during the late boom. By the time Nature's collection agencies get through with us, they may have repossessed everything we bought with our borrowings - which is to say nearly everything we've built over the last three centuries."

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