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  I'm so glad we didn't decide to fit a wood burner when we bought our current house. Instead we took the chimney out and eventually...

 In previous post I talked about writing about an idea, an idea to start a movement. I suggested a very simple aim: To leave the world in a ...

 Some things are simple, fairly inexpensive things we can all do to reduce our carbon footprint. Some things fall into a more expensive cate...

 This is a generalised "I" because it's really about what we can do, but it can't be me prescribing a list of things for y...

 This blog has always been a bit of a mixture of things. I've talked about woodwork, railway modelling, theology and probably a few thin...

Apparently I might have dropped my council in it as a result of my innocent enquiry about plastic roads. I wrote a short email to my local r...

Screenshot from the Macrebur website I often wonder if studying Environmental Science in the late seventies was a decade or two too earl...

I used to cycle a lot. Well around 120 miles a week, but that is a long time ago. I actually came to cycling quite late, never having a bike...

There are many reasons why I've been following the story of the oil disaster impacting the Gulf Coast in America. As someone who has a b...

You see these bicycle racks all over Barcelona. For a fee you can get access to these bikes. From what we saw, you enter a key-code and the ...

Today was a plumbing day. I don't mind plumbing, but it can be quite stressful. The object today was to add some long needed control to ...

A few weeks ago we were out shopping when we came across an exhibition about environmental things. Among the exhibits was a new, electric S...

It's very easy for Christians, especially those of us from an evangelical perspective, to become complacent about the environment. Afte...

I came across this through another site via a blog entry elsewhere.... The internet is a wondrous place for "rabbit trails" of th...