Experiments in Living
Posted in Environmental Issues on Oct 16th, 2008
Any excuse for a bit of Hendrix. But seriously, this scene is repeated in cities across the planet. I sit in a traffic queue every evening for the best part of ten minutes, which is nothing compared to some. Of my 12 mile journey to work, the 3 miles getting out of town take [...]
Posted in Environmental Issues, Vegetarian and Vegan stuff on Sep 7th, 2008
People should consider eating less meat as a way of combating global
warming, says the UN’s top climate scientist.
Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), will make the call at a speech in London on Monday
evening.
UN figures suggest that meat production puts more greenhouse gases into
the atmosphere than transport.
Full story at BBC [...]
Posted in Environmental Issues, Vegetarian and Vegan stuff on Aug 31st, 2008
This is yet another report about the impact of meat production on global
warming. The study has been published online in German by a non-profit
organization known as Foodwatch based in Berlin (foodwatch.de)
All published reports seem to report the same text. The text below is copied
from Yahoo.
Giving up meat could drastically reduce your carbon footprint, with
meat-eaters’ [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 27th, 2008
My recent stumbles, bookmarks and other online discoveries.
Blogs - favourite articles
How to stay focused: vision maintenance and the minutiae vacuum at Pick the Brain. Goodness me, all my work-avoidance strategies are here, all that’s missing is “I’ve got an assignment due - must clean the bathroom first”.
Five ways keeping a journal can change your life [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 20th, 2008
Photo by Kowitz
Today my humble little blog is celebrating a whole year since its inception. My very first post talks about the issue of time management, and my use of the timer (especially as a tool for limiting the time I spend online!). I rate the Flylady system, but all those emails (10+ per day) [...]
