Monthly Archives: April 2008

house update

the house is gradually coming on – we’re now plasterboarding and putting in wiring. still hopeful it’ll be finished in the summer – september? we’ve also been busy planting trees, blackcurrant bushes and sorting out drainage around the place. ben and i also had fun moving some big stones around the place. ben has made [...]

Published: 23 April 2008 at 5:14pm | Posted in land | Leave a comment

tree huggers

(via bean sprouts)

Published: 15 April 2008 at 5:28am | Posted in sustainability | 1 Comment

resilience

rob has done some excellent work introducing the term “resilience” to the sustainability agenda through the transition movement. richard heinberg with typical verve gives a framework for developing a resilience plan which will be very useful for communities less ready to engage with the transition message: Transition and Relocalization projects tend to have a hopeful, [...]

Published: 8 April 2008 at 10:18am | Posted in sustainability | Leave a comment

good science

if you haven’t encountered him before i can highly recommend ben goldacre’s bad science website. this post on biometrics is typical. (the video of the guys breaking the super secure fingerprint scanner wonderful.)

Published: 2 April 2008 at 6:10am | Posted in general | Leave a comment