#today

Bought some #mending glue tape so I can better patch the trousers that my fat arse split this morning, and also begin attacking the rest of the decades-old mending pile.

I'm enrolling on a fresh #hamradio course so I can rejoin the airwaves.

There's a powerful 18" floor fan by the window keeping me cool right now, as it's like a greenhouse upstairs.

Trying to give away a double bed with a marginal #woodchip frame, if anyone can be persuaded to #refurbish it somehow? Thoughts please

Deforestation-free product certification schemes just a marketing tool?

Voluntary sustainability standards schemes assessed against The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)
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Voluntary sustainability standards to cope with the new European Union regulation on deforestation-free products: A gap analysis
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389934124000893
#deforestation #SupplyChains #marketing #PR #EUDR #compliance #VSS #sustainability #certification #SCS #regulation #Australia #sawlog #woodchip #cattle #beef #meat #loggingIndustry #biodiversity

🎶finally it has happened to me 🎶

I’ve been on chip drop & Arbtalk for soooo long and finally got the call today. 2nd drop incoming later too

#gardening #compost #woodchip

“Concern that some power plant owners had plans to start using native forest timber as a supplement to coal-fired generation.”
Seriously?
#NativeForests #Woodchip #Electricity #RenewableEnergy #Burning #auspol #LaborGovt

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/16/electricity-generated-by-burning-native-australian-timber-no-longer-classified-as-renewable-energy