How Different Groups Spend Their Day
February 28, 2010
How Different Groups Spend Their Day – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com. Source: http://blog.alexkelleher.com/2009/08/10/an-average-day/
Month: February, 2010
You have such freedoms! Exercise them!
February 25, 2010
Lexicon of cooperation
February 25, 2010
I’ve just been revising a contract we use for websites we build and so having to deal with one of my pet annoyances. I don’t like contracts. They’re boring, stop me doing the fun stuff of work, and seem to spend more time building walls than bridges. The point is that you’re working together, surely? [...]
Green Revolution in India Wilts as Subsidies Backfire
February 25, 2010
In the 1970s, India dramatically increased food production, finally allowing this giant country to feed itself. But government efforts to continue that miracle by encouraging farmers to use fertilizers have backfired, forcing the country to expand its reliance on imported food. India has been providing farmers with heavily subsidized fertilizer for more than three decades. [...]
Ethical bottled water is an oxymoron
February 23, 2010
‘How Bad For The Environment Can Throwing Away One Plastic Bottle Be?’ 30 Million People Wonder All agreed that disposing of what would eventually amount to 50 tons of thermoplastic polymer resin wasn’t the end of the world. “It’s not like I don’t care, because I do, and most of the time I don’t even [...]
A farm for the future
February 23, 2010
I finally got around to watching A Farm for the Future (available on Google Video) a few nights ago, and found it to be a great introduction to the concepts of permaculture. Key things to realise (some not from the programme): Current methods of farming will not continue to feed you during your lifetime. We [...]
Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion
February 22, 2010
If only… As news of the nation’s collectively held delusion spread, the economy ground to a halt, with dumbfounded citizens everywhere walking out on their jobs as they contemplated the little green drawings of buildings and dead white men they once used to measure their adequacy and importance as human beings. Care of The Onion
What do we call ourselves?
February 18, 2010
A question from The Blended Lifestyle if we move away from a materialistic life, what is the name for the kind of life we enter into? I don’t like ‘de-materialised’ (so what is it then?), ‘simple’ (it’s not simple), or ‘spiritual’ (problematic term). So I am missing a word. Do you have any ideas? There’s [...]
Do you have unused land in London? Get free money!
February 17, 2010
A share of £75,000 is now up for grabs for London’s green-fingered community groups. The cash is available as part of the Capital Growth scheme, supported by the Mayor of London and managed by London Food Link, which encourages Londoners to grow their own food in under-used areas of the capital. People can apply online [...]