C Robb's blog

I like the ethos behind the Venus project quite alot.

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Check out this excellent article over on celsias about the "other" waste products coal combustion is poisoning us with.
Green Coal? | Use Celsias.com - reduce global °Celsius
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Here in the UK we have a movement called Transition Towns. It has spread to become an international movement and offers communities a path towards resiliency in the face of peak oil and climate change. Read more...

It's 10am, do you know where your electricity has been? Does your  provider buy electricity from power plants using coal sourced from mountain top removal, MTR, operations. Read more...

Yesterday I was reminded of a song from the musical Annie, "The sun will come out tomorrow".
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Sustainability usually comes down to personal behaviour at some point, we can lobby for renewable energy, support organic agricultural policies, protest coal fired power plants but most of us are also looking at how we live our lives. Some of us make big changes, some of us make small ones. Here is one that is really easy. Dress sensibly! When it is cold wear layers, even in the house. Read more...

Sorry to say this FFPD has been a total failure on my part, moving house, living in two places at once, and excessive busy-ness are the excuses I claim. All of which are characteristics of the modern hurry up consumerist lifestyle I had hoped FFPD would help me overcome! Can't win em all, I will attempt to do one next weekend to make up for it.

$10, 533,580,803,241,82
That's the US debt as of 26 Oct 2008 at 08:35:16 AM GMT.
Thanks to the US National Debt Clock.
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