Dear BayFM friend,

Thanks for tuning into your community radio-I love the creative challenge of  producing  the Go Earthcare show for you each week.

Today it a Summer Holiday Show, as we will all be having a break very soon for the celebration of the festival of generosity and the New Year. I’m off to visit my family in McLaren Vale South  Australia so will miss a week of presenting the program but Gayle Cue will certainly make a great hour of radio for you.

Stay safe, love a lot and recycle those champagne corks!!!

I wish you a very blessed, harmonious and loving Christmas time.

Love ros

Royal Life Saving Society

http://www.royallifesaving.com.au/www/html/7-royal-life-saving-website-home-page.asp

Carbon Offset flights

http://www.lms.com.au/default.cfm

http://www.acfonline.org.au/default.asp?section_id=86&c=43824

http://www.acfonline.org.au/articles/news.asp?news_id=164

Shambala Warriors

http://www.shambhala.org/teachers/chogyam-trungpa.php

Recycle Corks

http://www.guidesaus.org.au/page.php?pageid=20#Corks

http://67.59.184.41/lmag_blog/files/Images/cork.tree.1.c.gif

http://www.expanko.com/CORK/docs/pdf/102%20From%20the%20Forest%20to%20the%20Floor.pdf

Did you know?

In 1680 a French Benedictine monk, Dom Pierre Perignon discovered that he could cut some cork bark and seal a bottle of sparkling wine (champagne)

Cork was used in Ancient Egypt and Greece to make cylindrical seals

In 1750 the first cork factory was opened in Spain.

In Portugal there is a law which only allows cork to be harvested every nine years. Farmers are subject to a code of good practise and have to plant a new tree if one needs to be chopped down.

The world's oldest cork tree is known as the Whistler Tree, so called because of the numerous songbirds that occupy it. The Whistler Tree was first harvested in 1820 and will produce corks for many years to come.

Today cork is used in thousands of different applications. The cork bark can be 'stripped' off allowing new bark to grow in its place. This makes every tree a source of raw material. Every part of the cork oak is useful for a variety of purposes.

·  Leaves - for animal fodder, natural fertiliser

·  Fruit (acorns) - for animal fodder, cooking oils and ground animal feed

·  Trunk - for firewood and charcoal, paper paste, chemical products (tannin, acids), boat building

·  Bark - the main reason for cultivating the cork oak and used for wine corks and other cork products