Saturday, November 24, 2007
It has been a busy few weeks and I only now have a chance to catch up by reporting on a few events I have attended over the last few weeks. On November 8th and 9th I presented an introduction to permaculture workshop at the Tipperary institute, for final-year students on the Sustainable Rural Development [...]
Monday, November 19, 2007
In the mid-term break a few weeks ago some of the permaculture students joined me and the amazing Simone for a wild food day in Glengariff. *Right: Simone shows us how to collect a wild salad After meeting in the morning for acorn coffee, we spent the first half of the day gathering wild salads, [...]
Friday, November 16, 2007
Anatomy of a Scam A few years ago I attended an extraordinary event in Co. Monaghan which I still refer to as “The great magic Water Conference”. Organised by local environmentalists to promote the “discoveries” of an outfit called Perfect Science, it drew together an extraordinary mix of council water engineers, environmentalists and water diviners, [...]
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Bursting point: the world’s unsustainable population from the latest edition of Sustainability Magazine by Graham Strouts www.zone5.org “It is a simple logical truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death-rates. It is hard [...]
Film Review: What a Way to Go- Life at the End of Empire “If we knew all the facts, we’d have discarded the myth of the techno fix a long time ago. To my eye, our crisis, at its deepest levels, is a crisis not of technology, but of meaning and purpose… “Talking about this [...]
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Anyone interested in crop circles -are they human-made hoaxes? or is there some other-worldy paranormal explanation? should check out this thread The debate falls into two camps: on the pro-paranormal side, very detailed examination of the patterns and microscopic changes in the cellular structure of the wheat stems etc is presented as evidence that they [...]
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Just read Graham’s blog…. He’s entitled to his opinion. But so are others entitled to have other ideas. Not everyone likes every article in a mag and no-one is forced to read them.