Monthly Archives: April 2009

Living Sustainably in the Country

20 April 2009 – 9:26 am

Alastair McGowan writes:
One of the major issues in sustainability is how we can live in the countryside with less dependency on transport and other economies that city life brings.
BBC Radio Four dealt with the issue this week in the Open Country series, focusing on Canon Frome Court in Herefordshire where a number of families are [...]

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Goosanders on the River Wye

6 April 2009 – 5:12 pm

Michael Hancock writes:
In the middle of March, looking out of the window of The Watershed, the MA SDA’s base in a renovated building on the south bank of the the Wye, I noticed that there were no Goosanders (Mergus merganser merganser) bobbing in the current down river of the old Wye bridge. The Goosanders [...]

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Change is in the Long Tail: Change is Now

6 April 2009 – 10:48 am

Alastair McGowan writes:
I believe that the days of centralised power are numbered, and that a re-tribalisation of society is an inevitable, if sometimes painful, process. The applied theories of politics, economics and industry have made a sick society; it is time for new approaches. We live in the post-industrial world, and have an immense amount [...]

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