The eco map needs you!

I’m compiling a map of broadly ‘eco’ places – anything that is involved with a low impact, sustainable approach to life, from Transition Towns to permaculture farms, and interesting buildings. Other than the ones I already knew about, finding...

Building with waste

ThisTED talk by Dan Philips is fantastic. In it he discusses why consumers, the building industry, and society at large need to break out of the comfortable patterns that lead to massive waste, and how he makes use of that waste to create unusual, and highly personal...

Un-consumerising Christmas

This Christmas is different from those that have gone before, for a variety of reasons. First, we don’t have a lot of space here in the truck. Second, we do have pretty much all we need. Thirdly, it’s tough out there people, and we don’t want anyone...