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Harvest timber without destroying forests

April 9, 2019

Harvest timber without destroying forests A prehistoric squirrel, it is said, could have scampered from Norway to Singapore without touching the ground, so dense was the carpet of trees that stretched across the world. Similar forests stretched across North America and many other parts of the world – all of them providing a home to […]

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The world-changing potential of hot composting

February 20, 2019

The world-changing potential of hot composting As long as there have been humans, we have taken the parts of plants we don’t eat and thrown them back onto the soil again, knowing it would turn back into soil to create more plants. Until we modern people came along, that is.  Now we take our food […]

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Making charcoal

August 14, 2018

Making charcoal   Growing up I knew charcoal as the square, chemical-soaked briquettes people bought in bags and poured into the barbecue grill once a summer. Like so much else in our lives it came from a store, wrapped in plastic and pre-treated for shelf life, with no sense that it shared a name with […]

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What science fiction ought to be

June 22, 2018

What science fiction ought to be Science fiction has become the dominant genre of the last four decades – the biggest film of the year has been sci-fi almost every year in my lifetime. Of those, some are simply swashbuckler fantasies set in space, like Star Wars, while others are the very entertaining superhero fantasies […]

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Community-Supported Agriculture

May 22, 2018

Community-Supported Agriculture We think of innovations in cars or computers, but rarely of innovations in farming and food. Yet a new type of farm has caught on rapidly in recent years, in both America and Europe – Community-Supported Agriculture, or CSA. CSAs are small farms owned, jointly, by a nearby community, and that supplies food […]

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Wormeries

January 18, 2018

Wormeries Several years ago a study commissioned by the United Nations found that, at a time when the world has more hungry people than ever before, one-third of all food is wasted. Consumers in rich countries waste almost as much food, 222 million tonnes, as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa. A previous […]

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Weather that reminds us to give thanks

January 4, 2016

Weather that reminds us to give thanks As many times as I’ve seen the wind whistle across our land in the Bog of Allen, I’ve never before felt as nervous as I have today, as the giant trees around our property are bending alarmingly in the gale. Our cement house has actually groaned in the […]

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