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fifteen hundred quid a year?? That's a lot of smarties...

9/23/2013

A weekend of many, lovely visitors...and multiple and detailed conversations about our energy bills, in a week where the average energy bill is forecast to reach £1,500 a year. Eeeeouch. Our wee solar array would already have paid for itself three times over; and with a little care, even on misty autumnal days we generate enough free power from the big round geezer in the sky for all our needs - even the tappy screeny digital ones. :)
The 1kwh/day house rocks. :)

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The Soil Maker

9/11/2013

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This weekend sees galactic levels of cardboard, horse manure and compost mulching. After much hunting around, our local surf shop (hurray!) has offered us a fabulous mountain of cardboard, and our local stables the same in manure. And I have made our first order of seeds from Higgledy Garden to sow a veritable feast for the senses come the spring and summer...I can't wait. Have decided it's an early birthday present. For my garden, not me. I think it might have to have more than one.

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The C Word...

9/4/2013

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I'm recycling this blog - because it's ace. This guy here wrote it. He's ace too. His name is Richard Heinberg.

"You and I consume; we are consumers. The global economy is set up to enable us to do what we innately want to do—buy, use, discard, and buy some more. If we do our job well, the economy thrives; if for some reason we fail at our task, the economy falters. The model of economic existence just described is reinforced in the business pages of every newspaper, and in the daily reportage of nearly every broadcast and web-based financial news service, and it has a familiar name: consumerism.

Consumerism also has a history, but not a long one. True, humans—like all other animals—are consumers in the most basic sense, in that we must eat to live. Further, we have been making weapons, ornaments, clothing, utensils, toys, and musical instruments for thousands of years, and commerce has likewise been with us for untold millennia. What’s new is the project of organizing an entire society around the necessity for ever-increasing rates of personal consumption. This is how it happened:"

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fifteen hundred quid a year?? That's a lot of smarties...

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