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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 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 @ June 23, 2007 # 7 Comments
Ethanol is promoted as a sustainable, clean-burning and eco-friendly fuel that will reduce pollution and global warming. A study from Stanford University suggests that large-scale moves away from gasoline to ‘alternative’ fuels containing a high proportion of ethanol would lead to an increase in numbers of respiratory-related deaths and hospitalizations.
A series of computer [...]
Pete Smith @ May 9, 2007 # 6 Comments
Last month, The Coffee House reported on the plight of Manor Garden Allotments (‘Olympic’ Allotments Bulldozer Threat). With their century-old site due to be erased by construction work for the 2012 London Olympics, allotment holders have started legal proceedings against the London Development Agency for reneging on promises to provide an alternative site www.lifeisland.org.
Phil Michaels, [...]
Pete Smith @ April 26, 2007 # 10 Comments
I received an email from 10 Downing Street yesterday. A leaked memo from a source in the Cabinet Office? Not this time. Along with 7485 others, I signed an e-petition calling for the Prime Minister to “Incorporate rather than demolish Manor Garden Allotments within the 2012 Olympic site.” The email was Downing Street graciously informing [...]
Pete Smith @ April 6, 2007 # 12 Comments
Last month, the Royal Commision on Environmental Pollution (RCEP) published a report, ‘The Urban Environment’ , expressing astonishment that “on the eve of the new phase of urban regeneration and expansion, we lack an over-arching urban environment policy to coordinate the provision of housing, transport, energy and other vital services”. It makes a number of [...]
Pete Smith @ February 18, 2007 # 12 Comments
My mate Jim Kunstler’s at it again. In a typically forthright article for Envirohealth, he describes, for all those who obviously haven’t been listening, the implications of a post-oil economy, and tells us what we can do about it.
All we have to do is:
Start thinking beyond the car
Produce food differently
Inhabit the terrain differently
Move things and [...]