ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

Going Green ...

Plants. They are great for breeding pests and making you get allergies.
They demand water too. Come on, the world is running out of water supplies and these green monsters come up here and ask for the very thing we are running out of?

Some things are just so self-centered.

Then there's Recycling ...
Recycling?? Well that goes something like this ...

1. I'm a White Sheet of paper.
2. I'm now toilet paper.
3. Recover it ?? (YUKK!)
4. I'm back to being paper, albeit unwhite. And not clean.

Repeat 3 and 4. .... ???? (The whole concept is wrong)




Stop Global Warming - Turn off the Sun

They come out ever time there is a big silvery moon.

I like Earth Hour, because I am a part time burglar.

specialising in VW windscreen wipers ...

...and radiator caps....

EARTH HOUR SALE ...
McArthur's Backdoor (Hush-Hush ) Spares

HALF PRICE SPECIAL

VW Windscreen-wipers
Holden Rodeo Radiator caps

(Other Goods Supplied to Order)

Then again,

We could all order some soil samples from Japan.

that's gotta glow hasn't it.

bad taste.. I thought it might be.. oh well.

Maybe it won't be too long before there's a new chapel in Canberra. The First Church of Gaia.
Archbishop Brown with the Dean, the right Reverend Lee Rihannon.



Do you think I'm kidding ?

I think 'bend over Bob' should be dropped into the Franklin river, fitted with those cement boots.

Came across this and just knew you blokes would like it...just imagine no more Earth hours required -


how you look at things......


In the line at the store, the cashier told the older woman that plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized to her and explained, “We didn’t have the green thing back in my day.”

That’s right, they didn’t have the green thing in her day. Back then, they returned their milk bottles, Coke bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, using the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.

But they didn’t have the green thing back in her day.

In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. They walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time they had to go two blocks.

But she’s right. They didn’t have the green thing back in her day.

Back then, they washed the baby’s diapers because they didn’t have the throw-away kind. They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 2,200 watts – wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that old lady is right, they didn’t have the green thing back in her day.

Back then, they had one TV, or radio, in the house – not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a pizza dish, not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, they blended and stirred by hand because they didn’t have electric machines to do everything for you. When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used wadded up newspaper to cushion it, not styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Back then, they didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. They used a push mower that ran on human power. They exercised by working so they didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she’s right, they didn’t have the green thing back then.

They drank from a fountain when they were thirsty, instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water. They refilled pens with ink, instead of buying a new pen, and they replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But they didn’t have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar and kids rode their bikes to school or rode the school bus, instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. They had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And they didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.

But isn't it sad that they didn't have the green thing back then.