by Ashley Green | May 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
A permaculture garden is not a quick fix. But, it is satisfying at a deep level And it is rewarding and ecologically sound. No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you Desire a fig, I answer you that there must...
by John Clarkson | May 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
While people holiday around the Kremlin, there exists a war in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine, a stand-off in Georgia and high tension in the Baltic States, with thousands of troops in the region. All of this is happening in Europe, 74 years after World War II...
by Ashley Green | Apr 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
Natures own heat pump – vastly more powerful and more untameable than anything we can yet control. But have you ever wondered why we don’t seem to use the heat of the earth? We know the earth is hot beneath its crust. Maybe you have luxuriated in a hot thermal spring...
by Ashley Green | Mar 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
Have you checked your electricity bill recently? Does it seem rather on the high side? Would you like to reduce it? Do you remember the Winter Storm called Diego which rushed into California in the winter of 2013-2014? When power was cut off, flights traffic snarled...
by Ashley Green | Feb 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Biomass heating? It seems an attractive proposition – to produce heat using waste products. But just how viable is it? Biomass can be used to heat and to generate electricity (or a combination of the two) but its main use is to provide heating As we are becoming...
by Ashley Green | Jan 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Energy from High Altitude Balloons Image reproduced with kind permission Altaeros Have you ever watched high clouds scudding across the sky, and maybe wondered, “Where they are going and where do they come from”? And have you noticed how they seem...
