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My wife, despite being very aware and proactive on the whole energy issue, has a real problem turning off lights. Sometimes I come home to find the whole house lit up like some sort of Christmas tree and I'm getting fed up chasing her around turning all the lights off. Having two young sons who also...

Is there anything that I could get planted this weekend that might yield something this year From June to the end of July you can still sow the following: Bean (French and Runner) Broccoli Cabbage Carrot (just about if you do it now) Cauliflower Kohl Rabi Lettuce Pepper (Sweet and Chilli) Pea Radis...

having made the totally stupid mistake of trying once more to convince my neighbour of some of the issues - I found this thread and thought that other new PO's might be in a similar situation and would gain faith from these pearls of wisedom. Pippa, I quote from " A Life Stripped Bare my year ...

I took this picture at Windsor railway station when they were acting out their myopic strategy of pulling up all but one of the railway lines to turn the station into another undercover shopping mall. This image hasn't been doctored in any way; clearly things have become so desperate for the railway...

isenhand wrote:
BTW, we don?t actually have ?democracy?

Sometimes it feels like we have a "hypocracy" rather than a "democracy".

An interesting article in the Guardian about the American obsession with the automobile:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/columnis ... 77,00.html

John Travolta's house:

http://www.greatestjournal.com/users/delcj/11646.html

It seems to me that nuclear fission and other energy technologies such as photovoltaics and wind turbines are top of the food chain technologies. They are like the big cats; top of the pyramid and utterly dependent on the rest of the energy, resource and technology pyramid below them. From their inc...

I have a question regarding fusion, I hope it hasn't been asked already. I have a fairly basic understanding of the fusion reaction and process. What I don't understand is how it will be powered. How much power will be required to get the fusion reaction going? How much power will be needed to susta...

yeah, and in a few years when you're old and decrepit you can come and move in with us dad.

On the subject of UK food production and carrying capacity:

http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.af.tab2e.hmt2a.xls

A few people have mentioned saving seeds from their vegetables and fruit for next year. The main issue to be aware of is that certain plants may be hybrids and will give inferior seedlings. It is in the seed 'manufacturers' interests that you buy new seed each year. I know it's not expensive but if ...

I use a propagator on my kitchen window sill for growing the seedlings when it?s cold, then transfer to pots on my drainer, then into the ground when it gets warm enough. Due to the cold weather, the drainer is getting a bit crowded now however. It's about now that you should be hardening off the s...

newmac wrote:I've got a Brompton fold up so the trailer might not be all that practical.

Have a look at the Bike Hod http://www.bikehod.com/index.html

They say "It's become something of a favourite with Brompton owners, because the machines work rather well together".