Written by jonathanPosted in Eco,ordinary wisdomTags: alignright, burning fossil fuels, carbon footprint, carbon fuels, carbon offsets, carbon sequestration, com, efficiency programs, guilty consciences, maker, marketing, one, paper, stove, width, wood, wood burningDecember 7, 2008
I would like the small open fire in my sitting room to be a wood burning stove, but the cost is prohibitive as I must get the chimney lined and for a small wood burner and the lining I would pay around £1300. … Most carbon neutral policies displace increases in combustion of carbon fuels but that merely slows the increase of atmospheric carbon -which is not “neutral”-. ( permatopia.com ) I remember once having one of those gadgets that compress wet paper and make paper bricks you can burn, much like the one below.
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Written by jonathanPosted in Sci Fi,Self Sufficiency,TVTags: BBC, epidemic, hand, idea, john seymour, kind, mid seventies, movement, oil, peak oil, realists, reliance, self sufficiency, seminal series, series, SURVIVORS, terry nation, transitionMay 17, 2008

I read somewhere that the BBC were going to remake SURVIVORS as they had been in negotiation with the estate of Terry Nation who wrote the original idea and some episodes.
"Survivors - Series 1 - Complete [1975]" (Terence Dudley)
This was an incredible
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Written by jonathanPosted in NatureTags: amazing creatures, benefit ratio, car, car mirror, edge, manuscript, plastic, plastic casing, protection, spider john, spiders, Street, technorati tags, web, wingJune 23, 2007

Have you ever noticed the spider in your wing mirror? Spiders are the most adaptable and predatory of creatures, so its now surprise to find them in or on your car. They can have only been there for the last 20 years since the wing mirror became
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Written by jonathanPosted in EcoTags: air, apple, apple tree, apple trees, flung, form, green puppy, growing fruit trees, Guide, journey, london victoria, office, section, stella otto, Technorati, track, trainSeptember 27, 2006
Well as i moved form the air conditioned office to the air conditioned train, I began to wonder what had happened to fresh air. The train set off on its journey from London, Victoria....on the journey as I passed by a section of track I saw a beautiful
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Written by jonathanPosted in Eco,GreenTags: aof, benefit, booost, com, employer, free benefit, free bike, leisure, new bike, period, subsidised, tax payers, the journey, transport scheme, wwwMarch 2, 2006

Uk tax break of up top 40% of the cost of a bike
a tax free bike subsidised by the government and helped by your employer...yes its true. Cycle2Work was actually started in 1999 and enables basic rate tax payers to get a massive 40 % off the cost aof
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Recycle your mobile Phone, Recycle your cell phone
300, million of them in europe, about 125 million of then replaced every 18 months, if they go to landfill they leach toxins (from the circuit boards) into the soil and water courses.
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Written by jonathanPosted in GreenTags: act, art, communicate, communication, deliberate manipulation, example, google, google images, honest communication, kind, misinterpretation, necessity, society, someone, speaking the truth, subject men, wayFebruary 1, 2006

Honest Communication
Our ability to communicate at all levels, is not something we can put aside, let slip, lose focus on, its not an art, or a science its a necessity.
It seems to me that many of our problems, and challenges in modern society,
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