Halloween falls on the 31st October every year and some of us like to spend the evening running around the streets in ’spooky’ costumes scaring others for no other reason than it is what we are told is traditional. Others of us resolutely shut ourselves inside refusing to answer the door to all those pesky More…
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Seasons Passing
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Food 2030 Have Your Say
Thursday, October 1st, 2009As previously posted here and on Ecomonkey, Defra (department for environment, food and rural affairs) are running an online interactive discussion in conjunction with department for health and food standards agency to plan our future food system.
It is not entirely clear how much of a consultation process the discussion will turn out to be More…
Future Dreams
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Remember when we were younger and we’d think about ‘the future’ which seemed an impossibly long way away? We would imagine how it might look, feel, taste and how we’d prefer it to be. What did we dream of then? Was it a magical world full of vibrant, colourful people and places? Was it one More…
Non Commercial House Free Shop
Thursday, August 27th, 2009Communities such as Freecycle have been running efficient exchange programmes for some time and become increasingly popular. The idea of giving away items no longer needed rather than selling them for cash has proved to be as attractive to us cash strapped or anti-commercial punters as picking up items we need for free.
Without money to More…
The Future Of Our Food
Monday, August 17th, 2009As part of their Food 2030 project, Defra would like to hear our views on improving our food system. If you have ideas or opinion on how a re-designed system can improve our environment, health, wellbeing or the economy, or want to see what others have suggested, go the forum to have your say before More…
Idle Musings
Monday, August 3rd, 2009They say the devil makes work for idle hands. They talk a lot but is there some truth to the statement? Or is the reality, perhaps, that we – ‘the common people’ – are easier to control when we are too busy with the burden of constant duty, with all consuming workloads and the frantic More…
Midweek Dilemma: New Kitchen?
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009The Dilemma: Being a bit of a visionary, Ecomonkey is addicted to planning ahead and today we are mostly imagining having just moved ourselves, along with bags of enthusiasm, into a lovely new home of our own. In our dreamscape, the pad is brim full of potential but currently houses a rather scruffy, ill-proprtioned and More…
Eco Lifestyle Part III – How Do I Get One?
Friday, April 24th, 2009Desire to live a life based on high ethics and sustainable values is the first step on a wonderfully fulfilling road. The second is to put that desire into action by questioning every aspect of our current lifestyle, analysing the benefits and weighing up the ethics and sustainability of our behaviour – actions, non-actions and More…
What The Future Papers Say
Friday, March 27th, 2009Those clever folk at Reclaim The Sheets have been busy distributing copies of FT2020 in London today. With their special link up to journalists living in 2020 – that’s the future to you and I – Reclaim The Sheets have managed to tele-transport several copies of FT back to 2009. Pick up your copy from More…
Super Speedy Soda Bread Recipe
Thursday, March 19th, 2009Fed up with the profusion of plastic bread bags that would sit in a drawer until we reused them to wrap other food, but then had to rinse and dry before storing again (oh the painful memories!) as well as a desire to know exactly what goes into our food, the Ecomonkey household decided a More…
