Crafted from natural materials with care taken over form as well as function, vintage technology has a soul which is lovely to behold. Add to this the tendency for vintage items to come without packaging and the fact that they are often easily repaired and it becomes easy to see why vintage is becoming the…
Tag: environment
The Beauty Of Zero Waste – part deux
Having a family can certainly add to the waste we produce, an estimated 1/2 tonne of disposable nappies are produced every year per child- nappies in landfills take up to 500 years to degrade and around 200, 000 trees are lost each year to make disposable nappies for babies in the USA alone. The arrival…
The Beauty Of Zero Waste
Alternatives to plastic are usually far more beautiful as well as kinder to the pocket and the environment. According to the Greenpeace Energy desk news, the UK government quietly reduced recycling targets for plastics last year- meaning that even more plastic is finding its way in to landfill. Concern over plastic in our food is…
A Little Village with a big heart sends a special Valentine
A small village in North Lancashire is preparing to send an extra special Valentine in 2016. Knott End, a small village tucked away on a peninsula north of Blackpool, famed only for its brief connection to the painter L.S Lowry (he painted the Knott End ferry during his holidays there) is preparing to demonstrate how…
Why the issue is so much bigger than fracking
The energy industry would have us believe that fracking is a safe procedure which would ensure our ‘energy security’ . Our government is enthusiastically promoting fracking as an answer to our energy needs, pushing forward new licences for much of the UK. For a fossil fuel company, such as Cuadrilla, its one imperative is to…
The Age Of Stupid
If you have an hour spend it wisely….watch Franny Armstrong directs Pete Postlethwaite in an extraordinary piece of film – a profound epitaph for Mr. Postlethwaite.
Trust
* Trust is rather thin on the ground of late as the bankers and politicians seem to self-justify ever growing bonuses and (in Cameron’s case) a relaxation of our planning laws. In our village a large, early Victorian house has been bulldozed to make way for three ‘executive’ homes with the justification that the building was in…
