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Oil has jumped nearly a dollar, so am wondering if we have now seen the bottom? Unlikely I think. First we need a few high profile bankruptcies to reduce production. Once the price starts going up it may quite high quickly, i.e. above $100, as the losses may restrain investors for a while. Admitted...

Flooding maybe?

Come and see us sometimes in East Cornwall

Good points, I also believe we will all live in multi-generation houses in the future - and some are rather unwillingly doing that now.

My point was about the price of houses and the relationship to credit availability

These are not solution, these measure just tackle the symptoms. What is needed are measures to ensure that houses cost only as much as it costs to build them. The only way I know would be to allow unlimited house building - anywhere, anytime. Not an entirely appealing prospect. Or return all freeho...

vtsnowedin you should checkout http://www.cottagefarmorganics.co.uk/blog/. I run a farm, house, lifestyle, water supply, heating, farm machinery and transport exclusively on renewables. In addition we export enough electricity for an estimated 50 additional houses. It is definitely possible, even i...

Since we've exceeded our carbon budget with respect to global warming it doesn't matter whether it's gas, fracked or unfracked, coal, British or Polish, or any other form of fossil carbon. It all has to stay underground. But that will never happen. Do you seriously believe that any government will ...

These are not solution, these measure just tackle the symptoms. What is needed are measures to ensure that houses cost only as much as it costs to build them. The only way I know would be to allow unlimited house building - anywhere, anytime. Not an entirely appealing prospect. Or return all freehol...

vtsnowedin you should checkout http://www.cottagefarmorganics.co.uk/blog/. I run a farm, house, lifestyle, water supply, heating, farm machinery and transport exclusively on renewables. In addition we export enough electricity for an estimated 50 additional houses. It is definitely possible, even if...

That's a point. In days of yore you could argue, well if it's a UK AgriCorp it's subject to UK laws and paying tax to the UK. These days that's no longer the case: transnational corporations aren't answerable to anybody, except their shareholders. If the TIPP goes through, they won't even be answer...

Since we've exceeded our carbon budget with respect to global warming it doesn't matter whether it's gas, fracked or unfracked, coal, British or Polish, or any other form of fossil carbon. It all has to stay underground. But that will never happen. Do you seriously believe that any government will ...

This all sounds very familiar, speaking from a personal experience. Here in Cornwall we have some 20+ Transition groups of which perhaps 3 are still functioning on some level. It makes me think that perhaps the whole concept is unsustainable. The problem is human nature. We are, like it or not, natu...

Hi We are selling a 8.3 acre organically farmed piece of land with a large lake (30x45m) in Cornwall. Here is the link to further details: http://www.stags.co.uk/properties/6125841/sales As it happens, there is also an unrelated house for sale right next to the land: http://www.stags.co.uk/propertie...

There are some counter-examples to your proposition: wolves, for example, limit their own procreation to the alpha pair and do not allow (usually) sub-alphas to procreate. The same applies to other species, often those with no natural predators. It does not however apply to humans, as we are all wit...

Interstellar travel is basically impossible assuming our understanding of physics is anywhere near correct. But we haven't heard anything either - radio waves travel in straight lines at the speed of light, but neither radio astronomy nor seti has detected anything that could be an organised signal....

I'm fairly pessimistic about whether their is any point in the UK trying to control CO2 emissions. We humans will eventually burn all the extractable fossil fuels (including peat) anyway and then eventually the CO2 levels will then reach some much higher equilibrium level. Whether that level means ...