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A Year in the Kalahari
Kalaharis, meerkat, South Africa, desert, zoologist, Kuruman River, Lion King, …
October 8, 2005
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Kalaharis, meerkat, South Africa, desert, zoologist, Kuruman River, Lion King, …
Pamela Stephenson, Billy Connolly, Mintel, Sea travel, early retirement, baby boomers, …
Hugh Sawyer, Ditchmonkey, Sotheby’s, Observer, Woodland Trust, …
Energy investment, Solarworld, Conergy, Vestas, ErSol Solar Energy, Crystalox Solar, Renewable Energy Corp, ILEX, …
Ben LAw, Woodland Way, Ecohouse, Woodland House, permaculture, living in the woods, …
Irrigation, American Indians, Water Harvesting, conserving water, gardening, mulch, …
tree-house, trees, Winston Churchill, John Lennon, Mohammad Al Fayed, David Beckha, Duchess of Northumberland, Jonathan Ross, David Attenborough, John Terry, Eamonn Holmes, TreeHouse, …
The Woodland Way is one of those rare books that bridges the gap between the theory of conservation and its practice, and does it well. It sets out author Ben Law’s thesis and original vision for sustainable woodland management in Britain. It is an inspiring book in its practicality and “do-ability”.
The Woodland Way: A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland Management – Buy it from Amazon US
The Woodland Way: A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland Management – Buy it from Amazon UK
(NOTE: WOODLAND WANTED – PREFERABLY IN UK – CARPENTER WANTS 2 ACRES TO TURN INTO SUSTAINABLE HIDE-OUT. WRITE TO JULIENNE@OFF-GRID.NET)
The author, writes from the heart and has a very deep commitment to practical sustainability. In fact he lives in his own woodlands, ‘Prickly Nut Wood’ in Lodsworth, UK …
John Locke, whose philosophy influenced the US Constitution, introduced the notion of individual rights and individual property to its pre-eminent place in Western political thought.
According to Eric Brende in his fascinating book Better Off Flipping the switch on Technology, Locke’s approach had the unintended consequence of raising property, and hence technology, to the same legal status as people, with rights and responsibilities of their own. As a result we have become enslaved by the technology we created.
Buy the book from Amazon. Buy the UK edition here.
Logically this argument is flawed, but that does not matter since it is Brende’s intellectual journey we are interested in, rather than Locke’s. Whatever the reason, we have become enslaved by some aspects of our technological existence. Brendes course in the sociology of technology at MIT leads him on an experiment, to go live in a back-to-the earth religious movement in Maine and see how little technology he really needs to enjoy life to the full.…