Treading Lightly by Karl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorpe

Treading Lightly by Karl-Erik Sveiby and Tex SkuthorpeWe are consuming more than our earth can provide. In Australia, cities and towns struggle to maintain a reliable water supply, climate change triggers droughts which devastate farmland, and fish stocks are running low. It is increasingly clear that we are heading towards collapse if we don't change direction. Aboriginal people taught themselves thousands of years ago how to live sustainably in Australia's fragile landscape. A Scandinavian knowledge

A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go

From how to manage failure to getting what you want

readers will learn about some of the significant contributions that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have made

who was sexually abused as a child by a clergy member

it's about what happens if you subvert that narrative and simply love something like you used to

And Georgie fights to save Ashala

The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate

but a local cafe owner's kindness offers him a chance to change his story

no topic is skirted around

and a few things he wasn't expecting

From a blind man's longing to see his wife's face to a divorced mother's clandestine romance with a priest

And on a quest of her own to find her biological father—a search that Don