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(David Fleming, environmentalist, author, founding member of the Green Party, early chair of the Soil Association, died, totally unexpectedly on 28th November 2010. For more see this post and this blog. Lean Logic, on which he had been working for the last 10 years, was published on 7th July 2011. See www.leanlogic.net ) How to give …
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I recently came across a lengthy post on the Dr Mercola (never-use-3-words-if-333-will-do) site extolling the virtues of bidets. Bidets could, according to Dr M’s calculations, save 47,000 megawatts of electricity, 693 tons of chlorine, 1.3 billion gallons of water and 41 thousand trees each day in the US alone… Because that is, apparently, what is …
‘A meditation on light, energy, the collapse of time and the fabric of the entire universe – and our extraordinary and ambitious methods of survival within it’ – on Sizewell beach with the Exaudi vocal ensemble in Ligeti’s Lux aeterna……. Every year I mean to go to the Aldeburgh Festival and, every year, by the …
Well, yes, apparently it is…. According to a report on EurekaAlert, quoting an article in Fungal Biology, ‘the extreme conditions in some of the most common household appliances make these sites make perfect habitats for extremotolerant fungi’…. Researchers took samples from dishwashers (especially from the rubber bands around the doors) in private homes in 101 cities across …
Well, as I sit here and watch the rain pour down on a typical cold, grey English June day, I certainly am… But not of a sun-drenched beach – instead I am dreaming of a snowy, but sunny, mountain. Why? Well, because my nephew Alastair and and his wife, Kathryn, have just ‘gone live’ with …
It is not strictly speaking our area, but I have always admired the work done by beat, the charity supporting those with eating disorders. So I am delighted to see that they have now launched a new website to support those caring for people with eating disorders – www.b-eat-carers.co.uk As anyone who had ever ‘cared’ will …
