Sunday, 26 June 2016
Friday, 3 June 2016
Tuesday, 29 October 2013
Eco-building and Kevin McCloud
Earth-sheltered house in Brittany, loads of recycled materials and stuff from on site:
The Smallholding, crafted with more time than money, from onsite, local and scavenged materials, could have been smaller but magnificent, innovative and barely a straight line in sight. Never mind the destination, feel the journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZuru0O7j50
Kevin McCloud - One Man and His Shed.
think ManLab, with Scrapyard Challenge, Victorian Farm, The Good Life... and just a bit of Grand Designs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axlnUQX4KWk very first, 23rd Sept 2012 (explosives to split timber, biodiesel from fatbergs for light, making shingles, bark beer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz3Oywjc_W0 30 Sept 2012 (metal safe to woodburner using a thermic lance, making glass from sand, floor from milk, subsoil, chalk, hair and straw, animal (rabbit skin) glue)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua0eM38p4Aw 7 Oct 2012 (the biodigester, reclining chair from tractor parts and scrap from magnetic canal fishing, leather making and tanning with a difference, cornflour bed? willow bed, poo party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w1AoeUVXoo 14 Oct 2012 (jet engine hot tub, alpaca fleecing and bathrobe nmaking, drop down veranda)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGtG8O5fMOI 29th Sept 13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOvaMBDwQIc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnI_voETBsc penultimate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFOzmAueamM last
play the lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axlnUQX4KWk&list=ELemRy7CO7cKc
More info on the Channel 4 Scrapbook - http://scrapbook.channel4.com/programmes/kevin-mcclouds-man-made-home
The Smallholding, crafted with more time than money, from onsite, local and scavenged materials, could have been smaller but magnificent, innovative and barely a straight line in sight. Never mind the destination, feel the journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZuru0O7j50
Kevin McCloud - One Man and His Shed.
think ManLab, with Scrapyard Challenge, Victorian Farm, The Good Life... and just a bit of Grand Designs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axlnUQX4KWk very first, 23rd Sept 2012 (explosives to split timber, biodiesel from fatbergs for light, making shingles, bark beer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz3Oywjc_W0 30 Sept 2012 (metal safe to woodburner using a thermic lance, making glass from sand, floor from milk, subsoil, chalk, hair and straw, animal (rabbit skin) glue)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua0eM38p4Aw 7 Oct 2012 (the biodigester, reclining chair from tractor parts and scrap from magnetic canal fishing, leather making and tanning with a difference, cornflour bed? willow bed, poo party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w1AoeUVXoo 14 Oct 2012 (jet engine hot tub, alpaca fleecing and bathrobe nmaking, drop down veranda)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGtG8O5fMOI 29th Sept 13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOvaMBDwQIc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnI_voETBsc penultimate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFOzmAueamM last
play the lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axlnUQX4KWk&list=ELemRy7CO7cKc
More info on the Channel 4 Scrapbook - http://scrapbook.channel4.com/programmes/kevin-mcclouds-man-made-home
Saturday, 7 May 2011
Thursday, 30 December 2010
Sarah Phillips singing
This is the song by Paolo Nutini that she sang movingly at her mum's funeral
And this is her latest beautiful song, written by Terra Naomi
Proceeds from sales go to researching cervical cancer - see http://www.debbiefund.org/
And this is her latest beautiful song, written by Terra Naomi
Proceeds from sales go to researching cervical cancer - see http://www.debbiefund.org/
Evo proposes a global referendum on real solutions for climate change
During his presentation at the UN Climate Conference, President Evo Morales Ayma of Bolivia proposed a global popular referendum that would tackle the root causes of climate change. Below are the questions he proposed.
1) Do you agree with re-establishing harmony with nature while recognizing the rights of Mother Earth?
2) Do you agree with changing this model of over-consumption and waste that the capitalist system represents?
3) Do you agree that developed countries reduce and re-absorb their domestic greenhouse gas emissions so that the temperature does not rise more than 1 degree Celsius?
4) Do you agree with transferring all that is spent in wars to protecting the planet and allocate a budget for climate change that is bigger than what is used for defence?
5) Do you agree with a Climate Justice Tribunal to judge those who destroy Mother Earth?
see http://portalmre.rree.gov.bo/cumbre/Referendum.aspx
1) Do you agree with re-establishing harmony with nature while recognizing the rights of Mother Earth?
2) Do you agree with changing this model of over-consumption and waste that the capitalist system represents?
3) Do you agree that developed countries reduce and re-absorb their domestic greenhouse gas emissions so that the temperature does not rise more than 1 degree Celsius?
4) Do you agree with transferring all that is spent in wars to protecting the planet and allocate a budget for climate change that is bigger than what is used for defence?
5) Do you agree with a Climate Justice Tribunal to judge those who destroy Mother Earth?
see http://portalmre.rree.gov.bo/cumbre/Referendum.aspx
Me, I'll stick to two wheels on the ground...
Cyclist Danny MacAskill on the streets, rails, fencing, architecture, etc of Edinburgh...
Environment Friendly
You can be:
Dog Friendly = friendly to dogs
Child Friendly = friendly to children
User Friendly = friendly to users
Customer Friendly = friendly to customers
Environmentally Friendly = Friendly to the Environmentally
Come off it! The phrase is 'Environment Friendly'.
Have a think about it on the loo...
Test your reactions...
Housing Crisis? What Housing Crisis?
Why do we need more houses in the UK? Why are house prices sky-high, and unaffordable by essential workers? Why do kids, old enough to move out, stay at home and spend their quite reasonable earnings on booze and cars? Why are more elderly people living on their own, necessitating carers to drive round in cars? Why are cars so necessary?
I'm sure if you add up all the bedrooms in the country, you'd find a surplus.
Surely, if people opted for sharing their homes, or move into shared homes, we could instantly get more accommodation. Young people can share, old people can share, mixed ages can share. Single households generate more waste per head. Single households need more heating energy per head. It's hard work maintaining a house on your own, especially if you need to work, or if you're elderly.
Government specs for new developments aim to cram them in - great for squeezing them onto brownfield sites, but pathetic for gardens, which are breathing spaces, places for drying clothes, composting waste, growing food, appreciating nature.
Shared housing shares burdens and costs, provides company, provides security, provides care when you're down. People in shared housing find they can afford to work part-time; they can downsize on their personal material comforts, upsize on their social and shared comforts.
Divorce is another issue - I blame lack of conversation in this busy-busy-busy lifestyle. The more you have, the more you have to look after - so cut it out. Axe telly-time, talk. And don't dream of winning the lottery - it won't happen, and any charity will benefit more by direct donation. If you've got a dream, work towards it - dreaming won't help!
In a large group, you can have babysitters, granny-sitters, dog-minders, specialists, and hearty entertainment - jam-sessions if you're musically minded! And how many cars do you need? Not many.
Comments:
http://quosac.blogspot.com/2007/07/housing-crisis-what-housing-crisis.html#comments
I'm sure if you add up all the bedrooms in the country, you'd find a surplus.
Surely, if people opted for sharing their homes, or move into shared homes, we could instantly get more accommodation. Young people can share, old people can share, mixed ages can share. Single households generate more waste per head. Single households need more heating energy per head. It's hard work maintaining a house on your own, especially if you need to work, or if you're elderly.
Government specs for new developments aim to cram them in - great for squeezing them onto brownfield sites, but pathetic for gardens, which are breathing spaces, places for drying clothes, composting waste, growing food, appreciating nature.
Shared housing shares burdens and costs, provides company, provides security, provides care when you're down. People in shared housing find they can afford to work part-time; they can downsize on their personal material comforts, upsize on their social and shared comforts.
Divorce is another issue - I blame lack of conversation in this busy-busy-busy lifestyle. The more you have, the more you have to look after - so cut it out. Axe telly-time, talk. And don't dream of winning the lottery - it won't happen, and any charity will benefit more by direct donation. If you've got a dream, work towards it - dreaming won't help!
In a large group, you can have babysitters, granny-sitters, dog-minders, specialists, and hearty entertainment - jam-sessions if you're musically minded! And how many cars do you need? Not many.
Comments:
http://quosac.blogspot.com/2007/07/housing-crisis-what-housing-crisis.html#comments
MEP Hits Out at Media over Climate Change Doubt
Green MEP Caroline Lucas has hit out at the media after a poll revealed that a majority of people in the UK believe that scientists aren’t agreed about the facts of climate change – or that it is being caused by human activity.
According to latest figures by pollsters Ipsos-MORI, some 56 per cent of respondents agreed with the statement: “Many leading experts still question if human activity is contributing to climate change”. Just 22 per cent disagreed.
Dr Lucas, who is a member of the European Parliament’s Environment and Climate Change committees, said: “This is very worrying. Politicians will never take the steps necessary to cut emissions unless voters demand that they do so, and they won’t demand it if they remain sceptical about their role in changing the climate in the first place.
“The media are, at least in part, to blame: their obsession with appearing to be balanced means discussions of climate change tend to have a naysayer arguing either that climate change isn’t happening, or that it isn’t manmade, as though there is a serious ongoing scientific debate about this.
“But the fact is that there is an overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change: almost every scientist in the world agrees that climate change is happening, that it is being fuelled by human activity, and that our best chance of ameliorating its worst impacts lies in dramatically cutting global greenhouse gas emissions.
“By suggesting otherwise the media is, albeit inadvertently, promoting dangerous scepticism about climate change – and undermining our chances of doing anything about it.”
Dr Lucas, who was named Politician of the Year in the recent Observer Ethical Awards 2007, likened climate change scepticism to holocaust denial.
“The media’s attempt to seem balanced is in fact distorting the public’s understanding of perhaps the most pressing issue facing us all today – and it’s tragic. It doesn’t make any sense: would the media insist on having a holocaust-denier to balance any report about the second word war? Of course not - but by insisting on giving so much airtime to climate change deniers, it is doing exactly the same thing.”
July 5th, 2007
And it's definately nothing to do with the Sun! Temperatures have been rising of late, while the Sun's output's been falling. See the Guardian reports at http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2119695,00.html
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2123448,00.html
According to latest figures by pollsters Ipsos-MORI, some 56 per cent of respondents agreed with the statement: “Many leading experts still question if human activity is contributing to climate change”. Just 22 per cent disagreed.
Dr Lucas, who is a member of the European Parliament’s Environment and Climate Change committees, said: “This is very worrying. Politicians will never take the steps necessary to cut emissions unless voters demand that they do so, and they won’t demand it if they remain sceptical about their role in changing the climate in the first place.
“The media are, at least in part, to blame: their obsession with appearing to be balanced means discussions of climate change tend to have a naysayer arguing either that climate change isn’t happening, or that it isn’t manmade, as though there is a serious ongoing scientific debate about this.
“But the fact is that there is an overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change: almost every scientist in the world agrees that climate change is happening, that it is being fuelled by human activity, and that our best chance of ameliorating its worst impacts lies in dramatically cutting global greenhouse gas emissions.
“By suggesting otherwise the media is, albeit inadvertently, promoting dangerous scepticism about climate change – and undermining our chances of doing anything about it.”
Dr Lucas, who was named Politician of the Year in the recent Observer Ethical Awards 2007, likened climate change scepticism to holocaust denial.
“The media’s attempt to seem balanced is in fact distorting the public’s understanding of perhaps the most pressing issue facing us all today – and it’s tragic. It doesn’t make any sense: would the media insist on having a holocaust-denier to balance any report about the second word war? Of course not - but by insisting on giving so much airtime to climate change deniers, it is doing exactly the same thing.”
July 5th, 2007
And it's definately nothing to do with the Sun! Temperatures have been rising of late, while the Sun's output's been falling. See the Guardian reports at http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2119695,00.html
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2123448,00.html
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