I love the council chuck out days, I furnished most of my place with that stuff.

Meredith wrote: I love the council chuck out days, I furnished most of my place with that stuff.

On the grounds around city hall where I lived in Connecticut one could gather edible mushrooms. In season we used to get two or three meals a week from that source. Unfortunately the mayor had a fungicide applied to preserve the green expanse of lawn. The mayor was a friend so I protested but too late.

What a shame!

Yeh, I lived in the wilderness for a few years recently, ate lots of mushies... and when they are naturally grown they are incredible tasting...

Also I worked on a native food garden...amongst which there was a good native parsley and a fantastic mint...

Free Mushies seems like a great idea there are several edible fungi in Aus but be careful.
In Queensland (just out of Brisbane) a lady and hubby experienced in wild harvest mushrooms collected and ate “field mushrooms” from a nearby bush patch. Less than 4 hours later she died and her hubby was admitted to ICU he survived…just.
NB they were identified as an unknown species (resembling field mushrooms).
The experts then admitted that less than 20% of Australian Fungi has been described and therefore known to science.
One expert said "if you collect wild fungi to eat in Australia be sure to leave some on a separate plate....for the coroner" Bon Appetite hmmm

It seemed that Paul Keating hit on a good idea last night on the 7.30 Report re fixing up the imbalances in the global financial system. He said that the net debtor countries had to spend less and save more while the net surplus countries had to spend more and save less. This makes sense if you believe, like I do, that anything you do in the physical world has a finite limit.

The same applies for consumption (and hence waste). The high consuming countries need to consume and manufacture less, while the low-consumption (mainly developing) countries need to consume and manufacture more.

I reckon this is the big rebalancing act that needs to happen before we can even begin to solve our waste problem.

A correction:

My last comment should have read "on Lateline" not "on the 7.30 Report".