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Waterloo Meadows Community Orchard planted
…and we even got some press coverage for it…. Get Reading article on our Waterloo Meadows Planting. Slightly cheeky of Alan to get the Econet banner in the photo, but they were covering us in the warm glow of their insurance. I quite like cheeky, anyway.
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True Food Bakery
A group of True Food members are trying to come up with a plan to set up a Real Bread bakery (no artificial additives) in Reading as part of True Food. They have put together a survey to gather info about what people would want from a bakery. You can take the survey by following…
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Draught-Proofing
Is your house draughty and cold? Is it expensive to heat? Transition Town Reading’s draught-busting project may be able to help! The materials could be paid for by a grant from Reading Borough Council if you meet certain conditions and the work is done by the end of March. The work should only take a…
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One orchard planted (Prospect Park), one to go (Waterloo Meadows)
TTR kicked off its project to plant Community Orchards in public spaces around Reading on Saturday, by planting 40 trees near the mansion house in Prospect Park. We had a beautiful sunny day for it, and the turnout was very good. Oonagh from TCV covered us in the warm glow of her insurance and, after…
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The Achilles’ Heel of Algal Biofuels – Peak Phosphate. – An Update.
The following is an update to a previous posting http://ergobalance.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/achilles-heel-of-algal-biofuels-peak.html If anything, the situation might be worse that I had concluded then, but the issue of phosphate rock reserves is more complex than I had deduced. So, this article is as written before, but with a few more numbers worked through, to account for “real”…
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“Peak Oil” is Nonsense… Because There’s Enough Gas to Last 250 Years.
The title is a condensate of the latest rendition from Nigel Lawson, who served Margaret Thatcher’s government, both as Secretary of State for Energy and Chancellor of the Exchequer. In a recent interview, published by the Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2244822/Thought-running-fossil-fuels-New-technology-means-Britain-U-S-tap-undreamed-reserves-gas-oil.html), Lord Lawson makes various assertions, each of which invite some consideration and question. At bold face,…
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The Bunker Mentality.
One hundred feet below the Essex countryside lies the Secret Nuclear Bunker at Kelvdon Hatch, intended to house up to 600 military and civilian personnel – which may have included the Prime Minister – for 3 months, to coordinate the surviving population of London and its environs in the aftermath of a nuclear war. The…
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“Get Involved Reading” Event – Accessing Local Media.
Get Involved Reading – Accessing Local Media, Thursday 22 November, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon. 5 Queens Walk, Reading, RG1 7QF. Today’s event was attended by Ornella, Chris B and myself, and was a great success. Alan Bunce, the Community Editor of the Reading Post and James Ashford, its Web Editor, were there as instructors…
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TTReading’s Community Orchard Project
It’s been an encouraging couple of weeks for TTR’s dreams of setting up community orchards around the town. While I don’t want to take anything for granted, and our application is still in progress, we recently got agreement in principle to fund a project that will see us plant 5 community orchards in public parks…
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Global Warming as Seen from the Standpoint of Fundamental Physics and Chemistry.
This is academic and a bit “heavy-duty” admittedly, but the most basic analysis from physics accords with the inevitability of the carbon/climate link. This is work by myself and a good friend and scientific collaborator, Alexander Koewius. Essentially, even without highly complex computational models, basic physics “proves” that connection. How – precisely – the Earth…