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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The Green Moral Directory
Posted 29/05/08 by Matt B in the Online category
I have started working on a directory of sites and related blogs. While I don't want to get in to a situation where every Tom, Dick and Harry is begging for a link (been there, done that - was not so nice) this one time I do want to enable people to suggest sites.I would prefer it if you suggested other people's sites for inclusion as such a recomendation is worth infintly more than self promotion. However I fully realise that the most important site to us is our own...
See the directory here.
OpenID at the Green Moral
Posted 27/05/08 by Matt B in the Online category
Hello, you might notice one or two minor changes around here. Especially if you plan on commenting. I have been experimenting with OpenID.What OpenID allows you to do is so simple it is amazing - you sign up once but log in everywhere with the one identity.
What that means here is that all your details can be remembered for you so all you need to do is sign in and start commenting. Currently you need to provide a web address if you want it used but other than that it is all good to go.
I will be trying to integrate a little better with the base system so that the experience is even smoother so please be patient as I explore the code in use and get things running nicely. All the code is Open Source and I will be giving it back to the community when I am done.
Eat the tree
Posted 26/05/08 by Matt B in the Feeding Yourself category
Part of my personal quest has always been to be self sufficient, earth right, ecologically friendly, hi technology and happy. I still think this can be combined into a happy synergy of lifestyle and technology.A step towards that is the growing of foods in a sustainable way. Such a way might be to plat permanent crops - that is plants that don't need to be replanted every year. This is exactly what one group are doing according to treehugger.com
The reason that the group is concentrating on nut trees is their potential to outgrow cereal crops in terms of carbohydrates, and to utilise poorer soils with fewer inputs.
Pissing in your own well?
Posted 19/05/08 by Matt B in the Urban category
Following on from the question What replacements are there for main water? is a story from Thanet (where I live). Local Thanet District Councillor for the Eastcliff ward in Rmasgate, Thanet (Kent, UK) posts on blogspot "Save Thanet's Water where it quickly emerges that not only is the airport right on top of the area's main drinking water supply but a huge planned building project is due to be placed there too.This has led to the creation of a blog dedicated only to this topic. Save Thanet Water Supply says that there is potential for significant pollution of the aquifer to occurr and that the building work will take place on agricultural land (not brown field). The area in question is subject to "Source Protection Zones" of which I know very little but I understand this to mean that any liquid allowed to fall to the ground (or seep through) must be fit for drinking.
What has worried a number of people is that the selfsame council has a financial stake in the building work and full authority to grant itself planning permission where none other would gain it.
"I am not qualified to comment on how the project will affect the amount of water collecting in our aquifers but building on water catchment areas, inevitably reduces the water that reaches the aquifer. In dry years it is not inconceivable that water reserves will run out."
savethanetswatersupply.blogspot.com
Do any readers know of similar events and how they worked out?
What do you want most?
Posted 04/05/08 by Matt B in the Online category
A fellow geek and Internet business man by the name of Mark over at 45n5.com recently posted about the desire to be self sufficient. To grow his own food and basically find contentment in doing so. It's a desire I can fully understand as it is something that I truly want to do too.The post is called Veggies, Fruits, And Goals and you can read my reply in the comments (it's signed Lord Matt because that's the online name I picked back when I started and I'm kinda stuck with it now).
Mark reminded me about why I started the Green Moral. It was not to make money (I've never exactly pumped this place with adverts or targeted keywords or any of the other stuff marketers do). It was to document my quest to live in a permaculture style environment integrated with the fruits of modern technology and science.
If that sounds "far out" then maybe it is but it is my dream and I don't exactly plan to give it up anytime soon. The idea of a lifestyle that is in harmony with my surroundings to the point that I am part of the ecosystem rather than an enemy of it is something I am now so taken with that I could not stop dreaming about it even if I wanted to. I think it would fair to say that this is something I long for.
It is why I work. It is why I blog and it is why I get up in the mornings.
So a general question to my readers (you few that find me interesting on this topic) - what drives you? What are your passions?
Going Green When The Economy Fails
Posted 03/05/08 by Matt B in the Questions category
How do you "stay green" when money is tight?» Read More: Going Green When The Economy Fails
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