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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Wasting Water

I’ve been doing a bit of reading around and figured out the following on water useage around the home - and my calculations seem to go along with the ‘official’.
If a household has two people living in it, here’s the weekly toll…
3 baths each per week - 420 lit
2 Showers each - 140 [...]

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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Natural Woodland, Nature’s Balance

I remember visiting my birth town of Sevenoaks not long after the Great Storm of 1987 when hurricane winds devastated many parts of Kent.
Trees came down, roofs, fences were lost and six of the seven oaks on Sevenoaks Vine Cricket Ground came down and made international headlines when the town was reduced to ‘Oneoaks’.
I drove [...]

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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Building Road and Rail

There’s the old saying ‘Not in my backyard’ and I guess the same would partly apply to me if I were ever confronted with the building of a railway line or motorway at the back of my house. But it seems to me there are two sets of rules about road and rail with local [...]

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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Is it easy being Green?

I’ve just finished watching the repeat of the TV series ‘It’s not easy being Green’ in which the Strawbridge family show us their skills of transferring themselves to an almost 100% green existance.
It’s the second time I’ve watched it, finding it just as interesting as the first time around and I certainly take my hat [...]

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