There are times when crofting seems to revolve around jobs that involve being cold and wet, with your arms and legs deeply immersed in slimy stuff, and a thick, reeking miasma rising about you.
Today was one of those days.
Playgroup was cancelled, again, so I decided the Wee ‘Un could play inside while I tackled the kitchen drain. Read the rest of this entry »
The BBC has finally picked up the fact that plasma televisions consume considerable amounts of electricity, which has serious implications when you consider that 70 million older TVs are set to be junked over the next decade.
But as always, the media is late to the party.
When I studied the electricity consumption of our old CRT television, I compared it with a typical plasma TV and found the plasma television would consume 6.73 times our existing TV’s energy consumption. Read the rest of this entry »
After all that philosophising about hope, I thought I should bring myself back to earth with a hefty dollop of muck shoveling.
One of the byproducts of keeping animals is that you end up with very large amounts of manure, which can be a major source of pollution if not handled correctly.
But that need not be the case as correctly used manure can restore fertility to the soil, improve soil quality and reduce dependency on synthetic fertilisers. Read the rest of this entry »
“Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency.”
Nikko, one of my favourite bloggers, quoted this on her blog Subverting Overconsumption.
The quote is from a Lip Magazine interview with Derrick Jensen, the author, environmentalist and campaigner against industrial civilisation. Read the rest of this entry »
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