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.
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Making waves
Posted 25/03/08 by Matt B in the Online category
Often we do not consider the impact of global weather change as they might result locally. Often this is because we are too used to thinking of the "big picture" such that it can become abstract and distant. One brave Kent blogger took the opportunity to examine an incoming storm and consider the effects locally.In a post entitled "High tides Ramsgate surges and global warming" Ramsgate business man Michael Child examines the increase in higher than normal tides, their causes and the implications.
Furthermore he has a video of the dramatic waves the storm kicked up along the coast where he lives.
The clock is running down for life on this planet
Posted 21/07/08 by Matt B in the Unspecified category
According to the Green New Deal Group, humanity only has 100 months to prevent dangerous global warming.
That amounts to less than 8 and a half years. Not the tens we usually like to think we have. 8.5 years till the timer runs out.
Ouch.
How Green Are Green Cars?
Posted 30/10/08 by Matt B in the Urban category
In today's guest post Charles Cridland takes a critical look at "Green Cars" and asks how green are they realy?How Green Are Green Cars?
By Charles Cridland
With the issue of global warming taking on international importance in recent years, unsurprisingly the focus has fallen on car drivers, with cars seen as one of the major contributors towards global warming. Green cars have been held up as a potential solution, one that motorists should be embracing.
But are green cars actually 'green'?
Firstly, let’s take pure electric cars. Unfortunately these electric cars are anything but good for the environment. The electricity that they run on is produced in power stations, where only 30-40% of the energy is converted into electricity. Transferring this electricity along electric cables then results in a further 30% being lost to heat energy. So by the time this electricity reaches an electric car a huge amount of the energy has already been lost. Good for cutting down inner city pollution but efficient it certainly isn’t.
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