Am at heart an altruist, am a would be entrepreneur/ecopreneur, am an agricultural scientist, am proud of my contribution towards global food security, am not so proud of a lot of dumb decisions I have made, I try to be a good father, am deeply concerned about global issues, am a husband but not a world class one, my ancestors were convicts, am responsible for this blog, wish I had been a better son and brother, am an NLP master practitioner, live in Perth, Western Australia, have the Sun, the Moon and Neptune in Scorpio, have a PhD, think our leaders have failed us, love camping but don’t do it enough, believe in personal responsibility, believe that consumerism will be the death of us, think my dad was awesome but only after he died, love cooking, have wrestled with alcohol addiction, had extremely low self esteem when I left home, love people and humanity, am quite reclusive, have traveled extensively, have seen a awful lot of the world, am deeply flawed, lived for 15 years in Aleppo, Syria, believe that the only hope for humanity is if individuals raise their consciousness.