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Category Archives: Food
Peak Water
Peak Water Civilisation and the World’s Water Crisis Alexander Bell Luath Press 2009 Hardback 208 pp If oil supply peaks and begins to decline times will be hard. Standard of living will decline and people may go hungry but they … Continue reading
Posted in book review, climate change, collapse, Food, Human Ecology, Overshoot, Population, water
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The Heretic’s Guide to vegan Cookery
Book Review: The Heretic’s Guide to Vegan Cookery Warning! Not suitable for Breatharians Andy Murray The Good Elf Press 2009 187pp Astrology is an amazing tool to run your life by, without having to waste time with the fraudulent pseudo-scientific … Continue reading
Posted in book review, Food, Health, Science and Rationaltiy
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The Real Dirt on Organic Food
Update Aug 10th: Thanks to Robbie for sending me the link to Dominic Lawson’s piece on the FSA report and responses from the organic movement in the Times. Lawson quotes research suggesting farmers may have lower cancer rates possibly because … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Food, General, Health, Peak Oil, Science and Rationaltiy
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Permaculture Design Course in Cashel
Just got back from saying goodbye to 14 new permaculture Design Course Certificate holders who completed a 9-day course in Cashel, Co. Tipperary. Above: Mayor of Cashel Cllr. Eddie Bennet (second from left) with course organiser Micheal of Aimsir Bia … Continue reading
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Forest Gardening in the Irish Times
We were fortunate enough to have Irish Times columnist John Gibbons attend our last permaculture course in Cloughjordan, and he had a great write up in his column last week: Permaculture offers one vision of a future where human ingenuity … Continue reading
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Book Review: When Technology Fails
When Technology Fails- A Manual for Self- Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency Matthew Stein Chelsea Green 2000, 2008 494 pp Matthew Stein’s massive survival manual When Technology Fails packs into one volume everything you need to survive “The … Continue reading
Posted in book review, collapse, Food, Peak Oil, Permaculture, Science and Rationaltiy, survivalism
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Forest Gardening at the ART
I had the opportunity a couple of weeks ago to attend a 2-day course on Forest gardening with Martin Crawford at the Agroforestry Research Trust. The course was professionally delivered by Martin who has encyclopedic knowledge of his subject and … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Gardens, General, Permaculture
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A visit to the Eden Project
The Eden Project in Cornwall was established 7 years ago and has become a world famous visitor attraction with its iconic huge bubble-wrap domes providing the closest you’ll get to an experience of the rain-forest this side of the Amazon. … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Environment, Food, Gardens, Peak Oil, Permaculture
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Fruit and Nuts at Derryduff
I am off to attend a Forest Gardening course with Martin Crawford at the Agroforestry Research Trust in Totnes, Devon, next weekend, so I thought it would be appropriate to tell you how some of my own fruit and nut … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Gardens, Permaculture, Trees
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Crash Course- Preparing for Peak Oil
Book Review Crash Course- Preparing for Peak Oil by Zachary Nowak Green Door Publishing 2008 Peak Oil is upon us, and collective action on a large scale seems unlikely. Technical solutions are chimerical. Each of us must decide what the … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Green Building, Overshoot, Peak Oil, Permaculture, Powerdown, survivalism
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