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Transition House: Comfrey bed
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Thursday, May 21, 2009. And I recently spend some time at Chris Dixon’s permaculture designed place in Wales. In return for a tour of his smallholding we volunteered a few days of our time. I first heard of Chris’s work when he replied to a letter I wrote to Permaculture magazine. Issue 59) about the viability of hill farming. Shortly after that the BBC2’s Natural World program - A Farm for the Future. Aired, in which he was interviewed by Rebecca Hosking about his permaculture designed smallholding.
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Transition House: Food forest front garden
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Food forest front garden. And I have been discussing what to do with the front garden for a while now. She wants to terrace it on contour. To create a series of lavender planted steps that will retain rain water and "look gorgeous". I want to plant a forest garden. I also have to find out what food plants are shade loving and can grow under the hazels. March 25, 2009 at 6:22 PM. First us, now the Obamas! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Peak oil, climate change, credit crunch.
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Transition House: Carbon Footprint
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Sunday, March 22, 2009. Following on from seeing the Age of Stupid premiere. At the weekend I decided that it was about time we worked out our carbon footprint. I googled "Carbon footprint calculator" and there were a lot of choices, I also remembered that the Energy Saving Trust had a calculator. With my electricy and gas bills to hand I clicked the "household" options for each of the following. Energy Saving Trust - Carbon Cutter. The Household results for a year:. Household: 3.27 tonnes of carbon.
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Transition House: Reforestation in Borneo
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Monday, April 13, 2009. A website I visit fairly regularly is www.permaculture.org.au. The Permaculture Research Insitute of Australia. The home page is regularly updated with interesting articles written by people from all over the world. I watched the presentation. This guy is great. Truely inspirational. We hear so much about the deforestation of Indonesia because of the demand for palm oil. It was good to hear about Samboja Lestari - "the greatest reforestation project on earth". Read my first blog.
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Transition House: Rubbish record
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Thursday, April 2, 2009. This month we remembered to check out the A - Z of recycling. On our local council's website before we started sorting out our bins. The things we know to recycle, compost and re-use get put in the relevant place during the month, but by the end of the month the kitchen bin (in particular) was still getting pretty full. Mainly plastics, some spent indelible pens, a disposable razor and some broken rubber bands. April 2, 2009 at 9:27 PM. Only joking. Bring it on! Over the course o...
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Transition House: 1 month and 9 days
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Saturday, May 9, 2009. 1 month and 9 days. 235grams for April. Considering that this month it looks like we 'ave been mostly eating. Doritos and we are nine days into May, I think we did okay. One thing this month, we had a few items delivered in bags made from polythene that is "oxo-degradable" stating " please dispose of responsibly through landfill. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Peak oil, climate change, credit crunch. Read my first blog. To find out why. 2) began to reduce, reuse and recycle.
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Transition House: May 2009
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Thursday, May 21, 2009. And I recently spend some time at Chris Dixon’s permaculture designed place in Wales. In return for a tour of his smallholding we volunteered a few days of our time. I first heard of Chris’s work when he replied to a letter I wrote to Permaculture magazine. Issue 59) about the viability of hill farming. Shortly after that the BBC2’s Natural World program - A Farm for the Future. Aired, in which he was interviewed by Rebecca Hosking about his permaculture designed smallholding.
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Transition House: February 2009
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Thursday, February 26, 2009. How long before mushrooms? My wife ( Transition Housewife. Has been vegetarian for years. She was really pleased when, a few months before Christmas, the local co-op supermarket started to stock different mushrooms to the ubiquitous closed cup button variety, what's more they were locally produced. Great. However, she bemoaned the fact that they were overpackaged and sporadically stocked. Little did I know that her presents to me consisted of:. Mushrooms, a comprehensive guide.
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Transition House: April 2009
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Monday, April 13, 2009. A website I visit fairly regularly is www.permaculture.org.au. The Permaculture Research Insitute of Australia. The home page is regularly updated with interesting articles written by people from all over the world. I watched the presentation. This guy is great. Truely inspirational. We hear so much about the deforestation of Indonesia because of the demand for palm oil. It was good to hear about Samboja Lestari - "the greatest reforestation project on earth". Plastic bags, we've ...
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Transition House: March 2009
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Sunday, March 22, 2009. Following on from seeing the Age of Stupid premiere. At the weekend I decided that it was about time we worked out our carbon footprint. I googled "Carbon footprint calculator" and there were a lot of choices, I also remembered that the Energy Saving Trust had a calculator. With my electricy and gas bills to hand I clicked the "household" options for each of the following. Energy Saving Trust - Carbon Cutter. The Household results for a year:. Household: 3.27 tonnes of carbon.