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.

What Matt did next

Posted 17/02/10 by Matt B in the Online category

I have more news than a single blog post should rightfully try and hold but here goes anyway.

I have been working out more and have been checking out health supplements. Additionally I have been looking into getting a small allotment patch with a friend towards which end I have purchased a shed load of books. Furthermore I have taken up a new role as guest blogging in residence here and will be willing to guest blog for others too.

Phew... one day I might even get to blog here on a somewhat regular basis.

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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?

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Gordon Brown - defender of the earth?

Posted 21/10/09 by Matt B in the Online category

Gordon Brown (the UK PM) has told some of the worlds leading nations Once the damage from unchecked emissions growth is done, no retrospective global agreement, in some future period, can undo that choice he added that The costs of failing to tackle the issue would be greater than the impact of both world wars and the Great Depression combined (source).

So why is the head guy in the UK choosing now to stand up for the planet?

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Post Greenbelt 2009 Random Links.

Posted 04/09/09 by Matt B in the Online category

I've recently gotten back from Greenbelt 2009 and will have something new for (both of) you soon.

In the mean time here are a few interesting links that you might like to follow.


Could we see TLD .eco soon? (if so I want one).

Lord Matt (info) a web version of my CV.

Hybrid cars are not sustainable it seems

@LordMatt - my twitter account - let's chat.

Eco Geek report on a new solar power plant.

Join my Squidoo Fan Clud

Could this be the first sustainable new settlement?<>/a>

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Diagram of a low-impact development.

Posted 30/07/09 by Matt B in the Online category



Found via FlickR

MIT Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Matt's Big Garden

Posted 14/06/09 by Matt B in the Online category

Frustrated by my lack of garden, field or woodland to care for I have started to act without them. I have talked a friend with a house into letting me run his soon to be vegetable patch and have signed up for a gardening project that is entering it's second week.

I will be tagging the posts .

A tag is just a way of letting engines know about a keyword that one wishes to associate with the blog post or item. So far the before pictures are going up but the during and after images are starting to be ready too.

We are turning this

a garden full of junk

Into something nice.

Wish us luck.

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Posted 07/04/09 by Matt B in the Online category

Comments are closed for today. This is to stop a massive spam attack taking down the server. I will re-enable them shortly.

Sorry to cause you any delay in giving feedback or chatting.

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