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Archive for November, 2009
Infinite Uses of Vinegar
Posted in around the home, tagged distilled, uses, vinegar, white on 26 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Angela Palmer’s Ghost Forest Art Project in Trafalgar Square
Posted in carbon neutral, tagged carbon, change, climate, deforestation, forest, ghost, neutral, square, trafalgar on 22 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wish I’d had a chance to see this myself.
The Ghost Forest is an art installation on the Trafalgar Square aimed to highlight deforestation and climate change.
Learn more about the artist Angela Palmer and why she had embarked on this project. In case you’re wondering, the tree stumps fell naturally from adverse weather from a reserve [...]
Bet You Didn’t Know: Corked Wine is Better for the Environment
Posted in carbon neutral, tagged WWF, FSC, forest, wine, cork, plastic stopper, screw, caps, oak on 16 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We love a good wine (don’t we all?). And we do have a bias for corked wine instead of the screwed-on ones. We just think the corked wines are better in quality. That and we’re just traditionalists at heart. Uncorking the bottle adds to the drama and rituals of wine drinking. (So, yes, we steer clear of New Zealand [...]
Turning unused land to veggie garden
Posted in General, tagged allotments, dump, grow, sites, vegetables, veggies on 12 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I would love to see this done across London. I see too many little plots of land turned dumping ground or overgrown with weeds just on the way home. And to think it takes years to get an allotment!
Read on – Dump sites used for growing veg.
Scenes from the Walthamstow Farmer’s Market
Posted in organic, tagged organic, walthamstow, farmer's market on 9 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The damage :
“organically reared rare breed Suffolk redpoll beef” minced beef £3.58/0.45kg and “organically reared rare breed Tamworth pork” pork chops £4.24/0.42 kg from Muck & Magic Farming Ltd
turkey sausages with fresh cranberries £2.84/0.40kg and free range chicken thighs £3.20/0.39kg from Pastures Poultry Farm
ginger and spring onion sausages £3.86/0.39kg from The Giggly Pig Company
2 half-loaf cakes (banana [...]






