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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Cure for cancer but you can not have it!
Posted 29/04/08 by Matt B in the Health category
A New Approach to Wind Power
Posted 28/04/08 by Matt B in the Unspecified category
Plant a tree at no personal cost
Posted 27/04/08 by Matt B in the Online category
I've not talked before about how great stumble upon is as a service beacuse talking technology in an ecology blog just seems a bit odd. However, here is a chance to improve the world a little bit by planting a tree. It will cost you nothing and all you need is a free account with a great service.If you want to start adding friends then add me this is my pofile page. See you there.
Using up less
Posted 22/04/08 by Matt B in the Online category
One of my aims is to use less. This means that I need to reduce my addiction and reliance of stuff so that should the chance to change my lifestyle dramatically come up then we can. Part of this is the need to live more simply.Living with less on the blog at beekerswords.com addresses this issue and gives some useful suggestions like time limits on showers and not using lights when you don't need to.
All good ideas.
What do you do (if anything) to live with less?
What replacements are there for main water?
Posted 20/04/08 by Matt B in the Questions category
You no longer trust the mains water but you live in a flat - what can you do?» Read More: What replacements are there for main water?
Keeping your cool
Posted 19/04/08 by Matt B in the Feeding Yourself category
off all the challenges of my dream of a back to nature lifestyle the set of problems provided by "replacing the things we take for granted" has vexed me the most. For example fridges and freezers are hungry beasts and don't sit so well with the idea of living off grid. Get a few hot but cloudy days and there might not be enough juice to keep the food cool.Actually this has never been a problem for me as I have had a solution based on unglazed pots in my head for a long time. The theory is this - you fill an unglazed pot with water and put it in the shade. The water will seap through and eveperate and the remaining water will be very cold as a result. That should adapt to storing food nicely.
Apparently I'm not the only one that has been thinking these thoughts. The people that need it most are now benefiting from the idea. The idea is not mine - I picked it up from a tutorial on what the Bible was on about when it spoke about giving someone a "cup of cold water". So now you know too.
About Coppicing
Posted 16/04/08 by Matt B in the Woodlands category
Instinct might say that this would kill the tree but in the years that follow new shoots will emerge. After a number of years (which varies based on possible use and species of tree) the cycle can begin again and the coppiced tree, also known as a stool, is ready to be harvested again. Only this time not there is a great deal more wood available. The wikipedia says"The cycle length depends upon the species cut, the local custom, and the use to which the product is put.". The humble Birch can be coppiced for what are called faggots every 3 or 4 years but the mighty Oak can only be coppiced over a cycle of 50 years for poles or firewood.
Coppicing can be used to creat long straight poles of wood or thicker "logs" as required and the tree will live like this to many times it normal age. In this way it outlives many generations of "woodland managers". The wikipedia says "Coppicing has the effect of maintaining trees at a juvenile stage, and a regularly coppiced tree will never die of old age – some coppice stools may therefore reach immense ages."
» Read More: About Coppicing
Stop pollution - save lives!
Posted 15/04/08 by Matt B in the Health category
Only recently did I report that my local district had the highest rate of lung disease in the country due primarily to social and economic factors when the BBC also comes out with a story that the twin evils of polution and poverty may have caused more pneumonia than previously thought: Pneumonia 'linked' to pollution.A few things are clear to me. Poverty kills and pollution kills just as fast. Stopping one or both saves lives!
The Jurors Create Donation Fund for Victim
Posted 14/04/08 by Matt B in the Unspecified category
Courtroom Jurors Create Donation Fund for Crime Victim says the headline. The story is a sad one ending in something of a first."Sadly, the courtroom couldn't do much to help Bryant, who is now $40,000 in debt to the IRS for cashing his retirement plan early. But the case's jurors made a surprising decision: They would help Bryant themselves by creating a donation fund for him."
Sometimes it's acts like that that give you back a little faith in people.
Back to life...
Posted 13/04/08 by Matt B in the Online category
Thankfully all that nasty technical stuff is over with and I can get back to talking about the subjects I care about most. The spammer and his efforts have been mitigated - he's still at it but now he is causing so little strain on the server it is hard to tell he is there at all.Yes I am a green geeky guy and I love it.
Expect more regular green life and green living content right here very soon.
Service to resume shortly
Posted 05/04/08 by Matt B in the Online category
The server that hosts this blog has been experiencing a massive spam attack and it is threatening to take the server out of action. I am trying very hard to make sure that this does not happen but I am warning you now so that you know I will be back. Sorry.Your poo cured my asthma
Posted 03/04/08 by Matt B in the Health category
This post is special if only because it inaugurates a whole new subject - health.I came upon this story on the blog entitled Abandon All Fear which I read from time to time. The title of the post is When The Cure Is Worse Than The Disease and is not a story for the faint of heart. But we eco types are made of sterner stuff than that... right?
How to cure your asthma or hay-fever using hookworm - a practical guide (May 01, 2006) is the personal story of an American so tortured by Asthma and breathing troubles that he researched and acted on a theory that might make you feel a bit ill.
The tale involves walking in other peoples poo and traveling around the world to do so...
» Read More: Your poo cured my asthma
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