Reviews and Resources Archive

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    Walking with Weeds in pictures and words – Plants for Life #4

    It was the perfect sunny day for it. Until five minutes before we set out when it started raining. Thank goodness for bumping into Paul whilst I was doing a last minute reccy of the places and the plants we would be stopping at. Clouds...

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    Skills and Resources

    This year we will be compiling a list of the skills, resources and interests that people might be willing to share with others. If anyone is working on a project or wants to learn a new skill, they could contact someone else on the list...

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    Transition Towns Tea Tent at the Waveney Greenpeace Fair

    The Waveney Greenpeace Fair took place this Sunday at Henham Park near Blythburgh. All the 21 previous fairs had been held in farmer Paul’s post harvest stubble fields in St. Michael South Elmham, so this was a brand new venue. I did wonder beforehand if...

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    Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air

    David J C Mackay  (2009) A spectacularly well organised and revealing book. It pulls no punches in outlining the problem of (re)creating a sustainable energy sector. We are taken through various chapters on modes of energy production and consumption, building a stack of quantities on...

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    Spencer Wells; Pandora’s Seed, the unforeseen cost of civilization

    Geneticist, anthropologist & explorer Spencer Wells identifies some surprising consequences of the Neolithic shift from hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agricultural settlement. I found some of the science to be quite tough going, but the book is not over-long and very worthwhile, especially in the final chapter...

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