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Charmaine Green
Charmaine Green was born at Eradu railway siding, between Mullewa and Geraldton, in Western Australia. Her mother is Margaret Green (nee Papertalk) of the Wajarri and Wilunyu people. Her father is Charlie Green of the Badimaya people.
Charmaine has lived and worked in rural Western Australia for the past 47 years. She is a part-time researcher and educator at the WA Centre for Rural Health. Charmaine’s primary role as an educator is to teach university health science students to work successfully in Aboriginal health care.
Charmaine is a volunteer Director at Yamaji Art Centre and Geraldton Street work Aboriginal Corporation (Youth Organisation) in Geraldton where she volunteers her time in the arts and youth work. In 2015 Charmaine decided to take up the challenge of curating exhibitions due to what she saw as a lack of Aboriginal curators outside of cultural institutions and gallery’s and within rural and regional Australia. Charmaine’s arts experience is grounded in her extensive involvement in the Aboriginal Art Centre industry as a Director, visual artist, arts worker, Art Centre Manager and Chair of the Aboriginal Art Centre Hub WA. In August 2017 Charmaine had the opportunity to curate renowned Badimaya artist Julie Dowling’s Yagu Gurlbarl (Big Secret) exhibition at the Geraldton Regional Art Gallery.
Ventral view of most of it. Voracious predator of aphid and similar that carries a camouflage pack on its back. This load seems to be composed partly of insect parts. *Stereo pair follows.
Here are examples of two very different green coffee beans. The beans on the left are from the Malabar region in India.
One of the worlds most exotic coffees, Monsoon Malabar was discovered by accident when a cargo of coffee beans aboard a wooden-hulled ship acquired a unique tang after being somewhat exposed to the elements during a particular monsoon while negotiating the Cape of Good Hope. Exposed to the monsoon winds for a few weeks the coffee flavors become richer and smoother. Monsoon Malabar coffee is full bodied , very low acidity with a spicy woody flavor.
The beans on the right are from Colombia.
Colombian Supremo coffee is grown high in the Colombian Andes and is famous for it's smooth pleasant acidity, smooth finish, nutty overtones and rich medium to full body. Colombian coffee is the world's second largest producer of coffee and is famous for consistently producing fine gourmet coffees.
Abu Dhabi, 'green pearl' of the Gulf. Featured on the left are the 'Trust Towers', part of Abu Dhabi's new Central Market. This development was by designed Foster & Partners. In the foreground, we see the landscaped green gardens and jogging/biking pathways along the Corniche Road. On the right side, the imposing ADIA headquarters, home of the world's richest sovereign fund.
Green-crowned Brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula) feeding from flowers at Cinchona, Costa Rica. For more visit www.chrisjimenez.net
It's a disease and they're all green.
It emminates from their being.
A satiation with occupation.
And like weeds with big leaves.
Stealing light from what's beneath.
Where they have more. Still they take more.
Well, I know, then I don't.
There's a stowaway with my throat.
It's deceiving. I don't believe him.
We can scream out our doors.
Behind the wall a fat man snores.
In his dreams he's choking tea leaves.
Well I guess there's nothing wrong with what you say.
But don't sell me, "There can't be better ways."
Tell the captain "This boat's not safe, and we're drowning."
Turns out he's the one making waves. Waves. Waves.
I said there's nothing wrong with what you say.
Believe me just asking you to sway.
No white or black just grey.
Can you feel this world with your heart and not your brain?
Albert Park
Auckland, New Zealand
From the Hamilton (Ancaster) Fun Festival August 5th. Dallas Green lead singer of Alexison Fire and his own band City and Colour.
The green bee-eater (Merops orientalis), also known as little green bee-eater, is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family. It is resident but prone to seasonal movements and is found widely distributed across sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal and the Gambia to Ethiopia, the Nile valley, western Arabia and Asia through India to Vietnam. They are mainly insect eaters and they are found in grassland, thin scrub and forest often quite far from water. Several regional plumage variations are known and several subspecies have been named.
Like other species in the genus, bee-eaters predominantly eat insects, especially bees, wasps and ants, which are caught in the air by sorties from an open perch. Before swallowing prey, a bee-eater removes stings and breaks the exoskeleton of the prey by repeatedly thrashing it on the perch. Migration is not known but they make seasonal movements in response to rainfall. These birds are somewhat sluggish in the mornings and may be found huddled next to each other on wires sometimes with their bills tucked in their backs well after sunrise. They sand-bathe more frequently than other bee-eater species and will sometimes bathe in water by dipping into water in flight. They are usually seen in small groups and often roost communally in large numbers (200-300). The birds move excitedly at the roost site and call loudly, often explosively dispersing before settling back to the roost tree.[12] The little green bee-eater is also becoming common in urban and sub-urban neighborhoods, and has been observed perching on television antennae, only to launch into a brief, zig-zag flight formation to catch an insect, then return to the same perch and consume the meal. This behaviour is generally observed between the hours of 7:00 and 8:00am, and after 4:00pm.
The breeding season is from March to June. Unlike many bee-eaters, these are often solitary nesters, making a tunnel in a sandy bank. The breeding pairs are often joined by helpers. They nest in hollows in vertical mud banks. The nest tunnel that they construct can run as much as 5 feet long and the 3-5 eggs are laid on the bare ground in the cavity at the end of the tunnel. The eggs are very spherical and glossy white. Clutch size varies with rainfall and insect food density. Both sexes incubate. The eggs hatch asynchronously with an incubation period of about 14 days and the chicks grow fledge in 3 to 4 weeks and in the fledging stage show a reduction in body weight.
Green Expo 2026 Photography Competition
Earlier this year, I decided to have a go at entering the Green Expo 2026 Photography Competition in Chester.
I submitted five images across the themes of The Natural World's Resilience and Progress to Net Zero. It was a really enjoyable challenge, particularly as some of the photographs featured solar panels, which required special permission to access and photograph.
I'm delighted to share that I was awarded 2026 Professional Photographer of the Year in the Progress to Net Zero category.
It was a real honour to have the winning images from all of the categories displayed outside Chester Cathedral. It's always rewarding to see your work exhibited in such an iconic location.
A huge thank you to the organisers, the judges, and everyone involved in making the competition such a success.
The winning image was taken from the roof of Storyhouse, looking across its solar panels towards Chester Cathedral.
For more information about Green Expo see their site:
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Copyright (c) 2026 Mark Carline
Category: Progress to Net Zero (Energy, Innovation, and Reducing Waste)
Please state the photo's relevance to the North West and North Wales. (No more than 200 word, e.g. Its location, or of an innovation that could apply or is being used here.).
This photograph is firmly rooted in the North West, taken from the rooftop of Storyhouse, Chester’s premier cultural hub. Storyhouse is widely recognized across the region as a pioneering model for sustainable community spaces. The building itself is an award-winning example of regional urban innovation: a major retrofitting project that successfully transformed a defunct, 1930s Art Deco Odeon cinema into a thriving modern theatre, library, and cinema. The vast solar infrastructure captured in this image represents a critical step forward for urban centres throughout the North West and North Wales. It proves that energy-intensive, public-facing cultural institutions can radically reduce their reliance on the regional grid. By demonstrating how a large-scale, 312-panel photovoltaic array can be seamlessly integrated into a dense conservation area—with the historic towers of Chester Cathedral visible in the distance—this location stands as a shining beacon of municipal progress toward net zero.
Please tell us why you think your photo is relevant to the category you have chosen and the story behind the photo (max 200 words).
This image directly aligns with "Progress to Net Zero" because it documents the industrial-scale adoption of renewable energy within a busy urban environment. The story behind the photo centres on the hidden sustainability of our favourite public spaces. While thousands of visitors utilize Storyhouse daily, this massive clean-energy operation works silently overhead. The photograph captures rows of densely packed solar arrays stretching across the flat roof, showcasing the creative optimization of limited city space to maximize solar capture. What makes this photo relevant to the category is its powerful visual contrast: the cutting-edge, geometric lines of the modern solar panels are framed by the traditional brick chimneys and tiled rooftops of the surrounding historic city. It tells a story of ecological evolution, showing that a community venue dedicated to stories can rewrite its own environmental narrative—slashing carbon emissions and proving that a sustainable future can be built directly on top of our cultural past.