Climate change - international Dharma teachers' statement

This came to me via Gillian Coote Roshi, who was the second speaker at the Dharma Gaia Fellowship. You will find the statement and petition on this site:  

//www.oneearthsangha.org/articles/dharma-teachers-statement-on-climate-change/

You are invited, as a sangha member, to sign this petition. What will that do? you might wonder. Well, if it is all you can do at the moment, it may put pressure on our blind, deaf and ignorant leaders to make the radical changes necessary to save life on this planet from a massive restructure. There will be no redundancy payments emanating from an indulgent employer, as we move forward into the anthropocene.

It may give courage to those who are actively working on renewable energy systems, to those who have given up their time to save the Leard forest in NSW from an open-cut coal mine, it may encourage other sangha members and teachers to sign, and speak out.

Woollsia pungens - is this spring? Mt. Hay area, 26.5.14

Woollsia (common name 'coconut ice' for the white and pink flowers) has a beautiful fragrance. It is supposed to flower in spring, but like sunshine wattle, it is flowering all over the Mt. Hay area. I was walking through wafts of Woollsia scent again yesterday.  My peach tree put out a pink blossom about six days ago. And yet many of its leaves are still clinging to it! I wonder about this butterfly, and all insects who need flowers at certain times. Will they adapt or die?