by convergency | Apr 22, 2009 | environment, farming, gardening, self-sufficiency
Bees pollinate a third of the food we eat. They are essential for farming and if we wanted to do the pollinating work ourselves – it would take a workforce of 30 million. And that’s just for food – bees also pollinate most wildflowers. In the United...
by convergency | Feb 21, 2009 | environment, farming, renewable energy, self-sufficiency
I am sure I am not the only one who found last nights episode of Natural World – A Farm for the Future incredibly important and somewhat frightening. If you didn’t see it – do have a look – it is available on iPlayer (for those in the UK at...
by convergency | Feb 2, 2009 | anthropology, environment, politics, renewable energy, self-sufficiency
The Age of Stupid: final trailer Feb 2009 from Age of Stupid on Vimeo. I often have ideas, that I mull over and never get around to doing anything about (man cannot live on ideas alone!), but in this case I am glad somebody else did it first 😉 I was thinking…...
by convergency | Nov 17, 2008 | anthropology, environment, self-sufficiency
I just saw this video which was referred to on Keith’s ‘Unsuitablog’ I love this video – and it pretty much sums up why I feel so uncomfortable with the level of greenwash that we are subjected to on a daily basis. The whole...
by convergency | Nov 16, 2008 | anthropology, blogging, computers, environment, gardening, housing, open source, philanthropy, self-sufficiency, web stuff
I have been using a great little WordPress plug-in called ‘Quotes Collection’ on this blog – it’s great for grabbing those quotes you see popping up over the web and adding them to your blog. It is my favourite aspect of my own blog actually...
by convergency | Nov 10, 2008 | philanthropy, self-sufficiency
I just saw this and was moved, no introduction needed really… even if it is ‘rooted’ in the work of the Nike Foundation… (time to put some sweat shop profits to good use?). By Girleffect.org
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