No better time to start growing your own
With it being widely reported of late that food staples are going to cost us more and more from 2008 onwards, there’s never been a better time to start growing your own fruit and vegetables. We cannot continue to eat more than we grow because it follows that food will become increasingly expensive and many more people the world over will starve. With a modest-sized garden only partly given over to crops, it’s possible to grow a diverse range of produce and, with a little careful planning, ensure you’ve got fresh food available the whole year round. You’re unlikely to end up self-sufficient but you will undoubtedly save money while, in the spirit of the Blitz, ‘doing your bit’.
If space is an issue, it’s possible to grow herbs in pots on the windowsill, or potatoes in old dustbins in your back yard. And why not grow edible flowers and brightly-coloured brassicas to ensure the garden stays decorative while becoming more productive? To reclaim the slogan of one of the biggest supermarket chains, every little helps.
tags: carbon footprint, carbon rationing, environment, food, food miles, fruit and vegetables, horticulture, organicThe biggest bomb in human history and the long-drawn-out scream
Not a day has gone by over the past five years without another climate change prediction being highlighted in the world’s media, and reactions to the reporting of computer models and physical evidence vary depending upon where you live, and what your already established views are. The question is, have most of us in the West already taken sides in the debate?
Those who believe climate change is real divide easily into two groups—those who say nothing can be done, and have already given up, and those who are already taking steps from large to small to limit their personal carbon emissions, waste production and overall impact on the environment. As for those who deny and dispute climate change, if they haven’t yet changed their position it seems only a massive physical change to the world will bring them on board—which many argue will mean it’s too late for all of us, that by the time the doubters have their collective epiphany we’ll have already by that point seen millions of people die in countries like Bangladesh and environments such as the Arctic ice gone forever.
tags: carbon footprint, carbon rationing, environment, extinction, global warming, paradigm shift, Time
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