http://www.how-green.com Live Green and Sustainably, Grow Your Own Food, Keep Chickens Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:07:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, at the end of the first major summer (Southern hemisphere) growing season, the scoreboard stands at Local Wildlife 3 Family 1. The score was calculated on the proportions of who got to eat what - basically the wildlife got to eat 3 times as much as we did. Basically anything not ... http://www.how-green.com/grow-your-own-food/suburban-food-growing-feeding-the-family-or-the-wildlife/ The majority opinion among scientists is that the largely man-made stock of greenhouse gases has now built to a level that is causing global average temperatures to rise and thus leading to changes in the climate. There's still much uncertainty about the accuracy of the figures involved, but the common view ... http://www.how-green.com/inconvenient-truths/emissions-climate-change/ Industrialization: Prelude to Collapse by William Catton (Excerpt from Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change) -------------------- Editor's Notes: This article and many other useful ones can be found at http://www.dieoff.org Unfortunately, this article doesn't offer any solutions, so if you're looking for good news you won't find ... http://www.how-green.com/over-consumption/industrialization-prelude-to-collapse/ Nanotechnology involves manipulating material at the molecular level. The scales involved are billionths of a metre, and with change smade at this level substances can behave in unpredictable ways and take on new properties. However the Soil Association says there has been insufficient study on the impact of nanotechnology on the ... http://www.how-green.com/nano-technology/health-risks-nano-technology/ SPEECH BY AL GORE ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE DECEMBER 10, 2007 -OSLO, NORWAY Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen. I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years. I have ... http://www.how-green.com/inconvenient-truths/al-gore-nobel-peace-prize-acceptance-speech-10-dec-2007/ Well unless you've been living in a cave, or on Mars in recent times, you must have picked up on the debate about environmental damage, most likely climate change as one particular aspect of that, as mapped out in Al Gore's movie "An Incovenient Truth". So a while back I said to myself, here I am ... http://www.how-green.com/inconvenient-truths/your-kids-arent-going-to-make-it-how-were-mortgaging-the-future/ Copyright acknowledgement:: This excellent article is from http://www.alternet.org/environment Thanks to global warming, pollution, population growth, and privatization, we are teetering on the edge of a global crisis. Our Drinkable Water Supply Is Vanishing By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. Posted October 11, 2007. Thanks to global warming, pollution, population growth, and privatization, we are teetering on ... http://www.how-green.com/inconvenient-truths/vanishing-water-supplies/ It looks like the eco message is going mainstream based on the number of ads that say something like: "Buy this car/air conditioner/fridge/<name your product> and save the planet". The latest edition of the marketeers phrase book must have a good selection of eco phrases for cutting and pasting into ads. You can ... http://www.how-green.com/over-consumption/save-the-planet-i-dont-think-so/ Ultimately, our behaviour is driven by our belief systems, which are incredibly powerful, energetic constructs. We know people are more than willing to die, or kill for their beliefs e.g. "My God is the only true God, or my country is the one that is right and I'm willing to kill you to prove it". Some ... http://www.how-green.com/sustainability/belief-systems-are-the-key-to-sustainability/ When I was growing up in England in the Sixties, my mother and Father used to have a vegetable garden with a whole host of produce. Potatoes, green beans, peas, raspberries, apple and pear trees, carrots, cabbages, rhubarb and so on. Most neighbours had at least a few fruit trees even ... http://www.how-green.com/keeping-chickens/growing-your-own-food/