This is my dream: To live as my forefathers once did - in harmony with the land that sustains us. A project to investigate and innovate the creation of a low impact home with methods of living in a form of permaculture designed to sustain my family and improve biodiversity. To leave the land richer than before and in doing so enable others to do so.
Did China block Copenhagen progress to pave way for its own dominance in cleantech?
Posted 25/01/10 by Matt B in the Online category
You hear it all the time, one of the most frequently voiced excuses for Western countries failing to radically cut carbon dioxide emissions: Taking any such action would hand a massive competitive advantage to fast-industrializing China.
Yet evidence is piling up that the very opposite is the case. The main challenge from the world’s new industrial superpower is not that it will continue to use the dirty, old technologies of the past, but that it will come to dominate the new, clean, green ones of the future.
As developed nations fail to put an adequate price on carbon, and thus to stimulate clean-technology development themselves, they risk handing market supremacy to the rival they most fear. Indeed, it could even be hypothesized that China’s blocking of agreement on rich-country emission targets in Copenhagen was intended to hold back the development of cleantech by its Western rivals.
Did China block Copenhagen progress to pave way for its own dominance in cleantech?
Kent County to become factory centre?
Posted 10/01/10 by Matt B in the Urban category
Council in Kent offering all farmland for factory building in 2010 and onwards.Kent, the garden of England, could well loose it's title if one of it's Conservative run district councils gets it's own way.
The innocently named "Policy 25" would offer a way for planners to bypass all country and farm land protection rules by promising lots of jobs as a result of the build. The reason for this push is because the conservative leadership would very much like to build houses on the already desgnated industreal areas such as EuroKent. The companies most likely to benefit from this arrangment include those run by the council's own leadership!
(Local bloggers have more as do the BBC)
This all coming from a council that is never far from the news (for example misleading the public in a FOI request) with complaints about the behavour of their planning officers and irregularities in the way they have carried out certain actions. Not least of which are the significant threats to all the drinking water in the area. Is Thanet in Kent going to become a concreate jungle so that a few businessmen can line their pocket?
Are we stupid or something?
Posted 05/01/10 by Matt B in the Unspecified category
Why is it do you think that instead of putting the very finest ingredients into household consumables that companies put the most damaging and potentially deadly?Because they are cheep. Because we let them. Because no one makes a fuss.
Why is it that we pour a noxious blend of cancer promoting neurological toxins onto even our children's heads just to wash their hair?
It's not because it gets hair clean - it's because it makes the products last longer and so increases profit. Because we continue to use these chemicals and fail to understand the risks we take.
I think maybe we are very silly people.
Straw homes
Posted 28/12/09 by Matt B in the Unspecified category
Musing on the inaccurate story of the three little pigs and the piggy that mad it's home out of straw The Daily Green brings us 10 amazing straw homes.straw homes do really exist, and they are a lot safer and sturdier than their mythical counterparts -- not to mention beautiful and stylish.They tell us. It's true too: read mores
It works even if it is cheesy
Posted 06/12/09 by Matt B in the Urban category
Today's video is totally cheesy so I apologise now for inflicting it on you. However they are demonstrating what I think is an amazing product.It does two things very well.
1. Cleans anything
2. Is ecologically sound
(Vegans look away for a second - maybe skip tot he next paragraph). Sol-u-mel got old felt tip pen out of my cream leather sofa. Admittedly I used it neat rather than diluted but it does the job so what can I say.
Hello to the vegans joining us from the above paragraph. Please don't hate me.
Before we cut to the video I should point out that Sol-U-Mel is a product of Melaleuca Inc. You can only buy their products directly from them if you have an exclusive membership account and you can only get one of them from an existing customer. Lucky for you I am a customer so drop me a line if you are interested otherwise it's time for a little cheese with your greens.
Right! Enough of me talking here is the video.
Why do you do that?
Posted 13/11/09 by Matt B in the Health category
Do you know what goes into every day cleaning products?I recently attended a presentation where I learned some shocking facts. Why are we putting these harsh chemicals on our bodies? Why do that to yourself?
This is not something I want to be doing.
Finding my feet
Posted 02/11/09 by Matt B in the Green Moral category
For all the blogging I do I more often than not need to play about with the format, the tempo and the content before I find the passion that drove me to make the blog to start with.With this topic, for example, I am deeply in love with the dream to found an eco village. I am deeply moved by our need to be more ethical in our dealings with the planet. I am profoundly moved by the blindness we all exhibit.
I think the problem is that being green is a doing thing not a talking thing and I need to find some way to talk about the doing. While I am doing that please forgive me if I do not update all that often.
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