Here’s a great video from 6 years ago about straw bale building in Ireland. You can read more about it and find the links for parts 2 and 3 on Rob’s blog: A Blast from the Past No.2: Natural Building
Richard Heinberg's MuseLetter: The Food and Farming Transition
An excellent article from Richard Heingberg – it’s quite long but well worth reading: The only way to way avert a food crisis resulting from oil and natural gas price hikes and supply disruptions while also reversing agriculture’s contribution to
Diversity and Importance of Earthworms
Scientists have found that the UK and Ireland’s common or garden earthworms are far more diverse than previously thought, a discovery with important consequences for agriculture. Here’s a great video made by the biologists who made the discovery:
Meat must be rationed to prevent climate change
Meat must be rationed to four portions a week, says report on climate change • Study looks at food impact on greenhouse gases • Return to old-fashioned cooking habits urged * Juliette Jowit, The Guardian, Tuesday September 30 2008 Link
Lessons from the soil – by Richard Heinberg
An excellent article by Richard Heinberg It’s hard to learn much or do much about sustainability without getting your hands dirty. Link to original article or read it here by clicking below:
100 years to recoup cost of solar panel installation?
Solar panels are one of the least cost-effective ways of combating climate change and will take 100 years to pay back their installation costs, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has warned. Friends of the Irish Environment.
Forestry policy appears as thick as two short planks
The environment and economy both suffer from the way forestry, a key natural resource, is being developed here, writes Fintan O’Toole NOW THAT the boom is over, we have to reflect on two questions. What resources do we have? And
Blight resistant GM potatoes?
What do GM potatoes mean for future blight control? What does GM potatoes mean for future blight control? – 07/12/2006 – FarmersWeekly. This article was from 2006. In September 2008 the Farming Today radio program discussed the issue: [podcast]http://organiccollege.com/dl-blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/farming_20080901-gm-potatoes.mp3[/podcast]GM1 –
Seawater greenhouses to bring life to the desert
The planned project would use solar power to evaporate salt water, generating cool air and pure water thereby allowing food to be grown Seawater greenhouse project could turn deserts into fertile land for food and water | Environment | guardian.co.uk.
Monbiot.com » Strange Fruit
A hard commercial logic dictates that the only way to get good fruit today is to grow your own. Monbiot.com » Strange Fruit