Sydney’s Sustainable House on CNN’s Spanish TV
You can watch the report on Sydney’s Sustainable House on CNN’s website. The one about this house is called “Una casa verde”. Give it a few seconds to load then Click on it and enjoy… right after the advert. I’m dubbed into Spanish of course. Enjoy, M Read More
Trends in natural disasters
Trends in natural disasters. (2005). In UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library. Retrieved 04:49, June 24, 2010 from maps.grida.no/go/graphic/trends-in-natural-disasters…. This graph from the UN matches my sense of things. M Read More
Pine Street raised bed garden
Raised bed gardeners, L to R: Zac, me, Sam, Helen, Rachel, Luke (holding a pot of Herb Robert) On Friday about 8 of us worked on the road gardens and we: turned the compost bins in Peace Park and in the streets took about six wheelbarrows of compost from the bins to put onto the new Pine Street Road raised bed garden in front of Don and Helen’s house installed a leaky drain for the new raised bed garden planted some lemongrass (offcuts from... Read More
Splitting my bee hive
On Monday 20 September at 10 am Peter Clarke will show me how to split my native stingless bee hive, set up the new (second) bee hive, and harvest honey. It will only take about ten minutes. A photographer (the wonderful Saima Ali who has done the terrific photos for the second edition of Sustainable House) will join us to get some shots to show how it’s done. Does anyone know someone who would like to video it for a little Youtube or to go... Read More
How to cancel phone books
My heart groaned when I saw the plastic-covered White Pages on my front door. I’ll recycled them un-opened. I don’t use them. A neighbour, Steven, just sent me a link where I’ve been able to cancel the White Pages and all the other phone books I get but don’t want – the cancellation lasts for three years. If you wish to cancel any one or more of your phone books, go to: www.directoryselect.com… M Read More
