A message from PARIS!
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HOW TO START A TRANSITION INITIATIVE IN A BIG CITY
October 18, 2008 – 7:29 am
Dear friends around Europe,
October 14, 2008 – 11:21 pm
Put your name to the urgent letter calling on Europe’s heads of state to support the European Parliament’s bold action plan to tackle climate change.
Tell Them Now!
Last week, we flooded the European Parliament with tens of thousands of emails and phone calls in the hours before the crucial vote on the EU climate and [...]
PIERRE RABHI, An Introducation
October 10, 2008 – 1:31 am
Pierre Rabhi is one of the most eminent ecologists of our time
He was born in Algeria, the son of a blacksmith and brought up by a European couple. He received a French education, at the same time staying in touch with his North African roots.
During the Algerian war he worked in Paris but left, with [...]
DANIELLES ALMOST A-Z OF FAVOURITE VEGETABLES Part Two.
September 14, 2008 – 4:23 pm
C Stands for cabbage, carrots and cucumber, all of which I love.
I can hardly stop eating carrots. Always raw. Just as they come out of the garden .And, of course , I like to eat them the French way too. Grated with a light vinaigrette, with white wine vinegar.
Cucumber the same. I eat it every [...]
THE BLOG THAT SAYS IT ALL
September 6, 2008 – 4:12 pm
THE PARADOX OF OUR AGE
We have bigger houses but smaller families ;
More conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees but less sense ;
More knowledge but less judgment ;
More experts, but more problems ;
More medicines but less healthiness.
We’ve been all the way to the moon
And back, but have trouble in crossing the street
T0 meet our new [...]
Interview with Ninian Stewart of Falkland Estate and Keeper of Falkland Palace
August 22, 2008 – 10:14 pm
I understand that you’re the man behind The Big Tent Festival, now in its third year? How did it all begin? What prompted you to start? How do you see it developing?
Big Tent emerged out of some work that Pete Ritchie, myself and others initiated to create the Falkland Centre for Stewardship, an organisation that [...]
THE BROADBEAN EATERS. Part tree.
August 21, 2008 – 3:15 pm
She liked flowers but trees even better. One day she decided to plant an orange tree.
In deference to my superior gardening experience in this area, the matter was duly discussed between the two of us.
As luck would have it, I had, for some time now, coveted those shiny, deep green leaves ,massed together on perfectly [...]
THE BROAD BEAN EATERS – part Two.
August 19, 2008 – 3:18 pm
Come evening time, when the sun had gone to rest behind the mountains, he would walk slowly down the garden path in his blue workman trousers, light blue shirt and heavy boots, all the way along the tiny path covered in vines, to the lavoir. The wash place, a rectangular concrete basin with two compartments [...]
A WEE STORY
August 18, 2008 – 3:20 pm
Here’s a wee story for a change. It bears some relation to the previous three blogs. The list of my favourite vegetables.
Being a child in the village. It was deliberately written as seen through the child’s eyes. Makes for lots of fun and freedom in the writing.
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DANIELLES ALMOST A-Z OF FAVOURITE VEGETABLES Part Three.
August 16, 2008 – 3:21 pm
And now we come to …the top of the pops… the supreme.. the almighty…the extraordinary…wonderful …onion. I mean it! When I was a kid , if anyone offered me cake, any sweet things at all I’d always rather eat a piece of bread with raw onion. At this point most Brits start to cringe. Can [...]