Monday, December 31, 2007
I am proud to present the brand new Earth Oven recently completed at Derryduff. Just last night Sherry and Andy joined me for the first trial run pizza making session, which was a great success and resulted in much happy chomping. We also enjoyed sitting around the ultra-hot oven for some hours afterwards and watching [...]
Monday, December 24, 2007
Guest writer Andy Wilson editor of Sustainability Magazine has kindly sent me this piece expressing his thoughts on Christmas: The Last Christmas – A True Story? Every Christian knows of the Last Supper, in which Jesus joined his disciples for the last time before being betrayed. The festival of Christmas, in which a billion or [...]
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Please try and limit your consumption and reduce your ecological footprint this holiday season, and otherwise have a great time; but if you are not sure what to do with yourselves these long dark evenings and want to both save money AND do your bit for the environment, have a look at this. (thanks to [...]
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Many thanks to Liz Creed of Transition Towns Kinsale for sending me this photo of a recent fruit-tree planting on a community site in Kinsale. About 20 fruit and nut trees were planted by the Transition Towns group on a communal green last weekend. More are planned. Congratulations to all involved, it’s a great project.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Nostalgia for Eden A widely held belief amongst environmentalists, Deep Ecologists and other “post-modern” humans who yearn for a return to the idyllic world of an imagined Garden of Eden is that the struggle for sustainability is a new one: for most of human history, hundreds of thousands of years, people have lived in stable [...]
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Back to Nature: Exploring Humans’ Relationship to the Natural World Modern humans have an uneasy relationship with the “natural world”: there is a sense of separation, of loss, but also an ambivalence and uncertainty in knowing how to relate to Nature. What we even mean by “the Natural World” or “Nature” is unclear. Some might [...]