One of the things I’ve been getting more into recently
is riding my bike. You might have gathered that from my post of
4 March 2013.
Yes, of course there are environmental benefits from riding a bike. These include things like: Continue reading
Is your energy consumption eating you up?
Does the sight of an energy bill shock you and fill you with dread?
Are really worried about what climate change will mean for your children and grandchildren? Continue reading
Like most teens, mine would like me to be their personal taxi 
service. Their ideal would be for me (or them) to drive them anywhere at the drop of the hat. Despite what I’ve taught them over the years, they now frequently want to drive for short distances.
But our car is not like a taxi. A taxi runs nearly 24 hours a day…so its engine is running hot and therefore fairly efficiently. Continue reading
For those of us living in cool temperate areas spring 
is well and truly here, especially if you’ve had lots of rain like we have.
And that means that everything in the garden (and outside the garden!) is growing.
So it’s now time to plant seeds and seedlings for the main summer crops. Continue reading
