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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (11267)	9/9/2010 10:45:57 AM
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Hollywood star in north Queensland Evan Schwarten September 9, 2010 - 1:29PM AAP She lives in a house powered by solar panels, drives a vehicle that runs off used cooking fat and grows most of her own food. Yet Hollywood star Daryl Hannah isn't convinced she's doing enough for the environment. The 1980s pin-up girl is in far north Queensland for a two-week course on permaculture, which aims to mimic the principles of natural eco-systems in human settlements and agriculture. Ms Hannah says she's searching for "a more sane way of living in harmony with our environment". "Obviously we are facing a time of great crises; we are in the middle of probably the biggest extinction in recorded history; we are pretty much at peak oil and we have over-population," she told reporters in Cairns. "Permaculture is one of the best tools that I know in terms of understanding our place within that system and still do the things we need to do like grow food and collect water." The course has apparently already had an impact on the star, who joked she had developed "an obsession with compost". She will also present a keynote address at the 2010 Australasian permaculture convergence in Kuranda, west of Cairns, later this month. The star of films including Blade Runner and Kill Bill said she has been an environmentalist for her entire adult life and became a vegetarian at age 11 after a disturbing encounter with a calf on its way to slaughter. "I was petting this little calf at a truck stand and I was like 'Mr truck driver what's this calf's name?' and he was like 'Veal, tomorrow morning at 7'," she said. Permaculture teachers are apparently hard taskmasters - the course takes up to 14 hours out of the star's day - leaving her little time to explore the natural wonders of north Queensland, she said. However Ms Hannah, who shot to fame playing a mermaid in the romantic comedy Splash, hopes to visit the Great Barrier Reef during her time in Australia. "It's a total dream of mine so I'm hoping I'll have a chance to do that." news.smh.com.au