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I am passionate about the environment and have spent the last 10 years or so promoting hemp as an alternative to cotton and synthetic textiles.
After importing and wholesaling hemp products for the past 6 years I have now concentrated more on promoting Australian hemp products, now that we actually have an industry to promote.
I have also been more active in product creation, and getting my workshop producing organic home products and custom made clothing.
Since I ran an employement program (we made and screenprinted environmentally friendly shopping bags from hemp) myself and some friends have experiemnted with different products looking for something that would become a viable product.
I love to stage events and will be holding a gathering in August 08/08/08 to bring people from the Queensland hemp indusrty together to promote the wonderful benefits of hemp and exhibit what we are doing in Australia.
Creativity is one of the most important attributes we have to rectify many of the inbalances we have created on our planet, so I look forward to interactting with other creative and concerned people on this forum.
- My Birthplace:
- Adelaide
- My Hometown:
- Kuranda
- My Website:
- http://earthconnectionskuranda.com
- My Favorite Website:
- http://www.freerice.com
- My Favorite Foods:
- nori rolls, seafood chowder, interesting salads, pasta, fruit
- My Favorite Beverages:
- water, tea, fresh juice, wheatgrass juice, good red wine, Baileys' Irish whiskey
- My Favorite Sweets:
- real icecream with fruit, banana caramel pie, fruit salad and cream, tiramisu
- My Favorite People:
- Gandhi, Einstein, Mandela, lots of people who walked their talk
- My Favorite Books:
- anything that probes beyond the surface of reality
- My Favorite Movies:
- zeitgeist, illusionist, hmmmmmmm memory is gone
- My School or Alma Mater:
- BA (Hons) James Cook University
- My Career:
- diversified: advertising sales, hospitality, ESL co-ordinator, QITE supervisor, tutor, self employed
- My Accomplishments:
- raised three wonderful children who are the most beautiful souls...
P&C president for 2 years
self published 2 art/poetry diaries, as well as numerous locally based books and articles.
was on the committee that successfully reopened the kuranda Amphitheatre after it closed from public liability issues www.kurandaamphitheatre.org
created the most amazing community around myself and my family, and nurtured that by extending my energy back into the community.
was co founder of one of the first theartre groups here and performed in many of the productions.
Staged many susscessful fundraisers and events
Lived without power, town water or modern conveniences for 16 years
- Why I'm Here:
- To Network, To Share Ideas, To Learn, To Change the World
- My Passion:
- is to create understanding and peace. To protect and help heal the earth and those who walk upon her.
Hemp: the resource!
- My Hopes:
- that the next years will bring changes that will promote compassion for all life on earth!
that the work I have done for a few years now will manifest into a thriving industry bringing jobs and creating change in the current paradigm of the economy
- My Dreams:
- To become an ambassador for those things I am passionate about on a global scale.
To travel widely sharing the knowledge I have and learning from others.
To write books in beautiful locations that change peoples minds and capture their imagination.
- What Else?:
- I love the creativity that this site represents. If there is anything that will take us into the future with hope it is the creative nature of people like those we find here.
I love the diversity and interesting range of people and their pursuits.
Diana's Blog
an amazing time to live in
What an amazing time in history we live in. Changes are happening at a rate never experienced in my lifetime and certainly not in my parents or grandparents' lifetimes.
While there seems to be a lot of upheaval and anxiety around things like rising oil costs, global warming, the breakdown in society etc it seems to me that these changes are a sign of the old world falling a way and the new world: a more compassionate and awakened one coming forth.
I feel that our true selv… Continue
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hi Diana
hope u r happy i am proud that i have a friend like you wanna talk to u more if u have yahoo messenger or msn then give me id. wanna c your more pictures too please give me yr immages link or site adress. please stay as sweet n cool friend .
Sajjad Anwar
hope u r happy i am proud that i have a friend like you wanna talk to u more if u have yahoo messenger or msn then give me id. wanna c your more pictures too please give me yr immages link or site adress. please stay as sweet n cool friend .
Sajjad Anwar
I have not the slightest interest in clothes now. They mostly look like the old "Baby-doll nightwear" look I used to design for lingerie/nightwear firms after turning freelance. Or like badly-wrapped parcels sent off in the post — fancy paper that got torn and with the goods spilling out!
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