Pete Smith @ November 23, 2008 # One Comment
Environmental Photographer of the Year Award 2008, Natural World, runner up: ‘Green Steps’, Ly Hoang Long, Vietnam A scary article in last Saturday’s Guardian outlines the extent to which rich nations are flexing their financial muscles around the globe to secure their food supplies. This week, Daewoo Logistics of South Korea has announced plans to [...]
Pete Smith @ May 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
This letter was published today at Survivalblog.com: Sir: I recently finished trenching and running a few hundred feet of irrigation pipe on land that has been in my wife’s family for a few generations. We are the proud recipients of this small farm in the Southeast US. My Mother-In-Law was helping, and getting various tools [...]
Pete Smith @ April 29, 2008 # One Comment
Richard Heinberg is an American writer who is probably best known for his work on Peak Oil, the proposition that global oil production has reached, or is about to reach, a maximum from which the only way is down. The cocktail of declining output and rapidly growing demand has dire consequences for all aspects of [...]
Pete Smith @ April 28, 2008 # One Comment
This post contains in its entirety an article by Sharon Astyk at The Silver Bear Cafe. I don’t usually do this, but I can’t improve on the original, and just posting a link wouldn’t do it justice either. We Regret to Inform You… Sharon Astyk When climate change and peak oil thinkers run out of [...]
Pete Smith @ April 22, 2008 # 5 Comments
A solution to inner city living? How might you meet the demand for ‘grow-your-own’ within dense urban areas where available land is scarce? What-if: projects together with local residents of an inner city housing estate in Shoreditch have come up with a novel solution: grow your greens in a bag. A formerly inaccessible and run-down [...]
Pete Smith @ April 20, 2008 # 2 Comments
The residents of the village of Martin, Hampshire, have formed a co-operative to grow their own food and wean themselves off supermarkets. 101 of Martin’s 164 households have signed up as members of Future Farms for an annual £2 fee. The “community allotment” raises 45 types of vegetable, as well as pigs and chickens, on [...]
Pete Smith @ April 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
After recent discussion of garden paving atrocities (‘Front Gardens‘), it’s time to even things up by talking about all the good things that can be done in your front garden. Riding a growing trend for city-dwellers to grow their own fresh fruit and vegetables wherever they can find space, ‘Food Up Front‘ is an expanding [...]
Pete Smith @ March 6, 2008 # 30 Comments
This month sees the start of construction at Thanet Earth, the Fresca Group’s hydroponic glasshouse enterprise. The number of hits Change Alley has been receiving recently indicates a growing level of interest, so it may be worth bringing together a few facts about the project. The site lies between the A28 and A299 southwest of [...]
Pete Smith @ February 27, 2008 # One Comment
cull, kul, v.t. to gather; to select; to pick out and destroy, as inferior members of a group, e.g. of seals, deer. — n. an unsuitable animal eliminated from a flock or herd [Fr. cuellir, to gather — L. colligere — col-, together, legere, to gather] It’s been a bad few days for wildlife. Hot [...]
Pete Smith @ January 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The wires are buzzing today with reports that the world’s first 30-storey vertical farm is to be built in Las Vegas. This story appears on blog sites left, right and centre, but they all seem to have their origin in an article at enn.com, which in turn references a story at nextenergynews.com. You can spot [...]
