Spring time, bird songs, first rays of sunshine … and super streaky grey windows. I guess it isn’t just the cultural expectation of cleaning and renewing your house, your life, your body with the new season. There is, shall we say, a physical necessity to scrape off the dust and dirt of the long winter [...]
At first I thought it was just me. It seemed that over the last few years more and more moths have been invading my house. Granted, my home and wardrobe are full of natural textiles, soft furnishing and clothes – it comes with the professional territory. In other words, I live in the moth [...]
I saw it on the BBC News last night. There is water on the moon … lots of it! Concretely this means that one day the moon will/could/might be able sustain human life. As this news clip followed many more news clips on recession, nuclear armaments, climate change, terrorism and military conflict, this seemed like [...]
I’m on the 4th plinth this Sat. throwing tennis balls and hoping to explore opportunities around climate change and peak oil with people around the plinth. I’ll still have a Greenfibres style rant about the evils of conventional cotton, and the solutions organic cotton can provide, but I hope to have some fun doing it too.
Having spent the last 2 weeks travelling and visiting family on the continent I delight in coming back to my organic bed. Nothing beats the pleasure of snuggling up into natural materials and crisp organic cotton. As a matter of fact, I like taking a small Greenfibres organic wool pillow with me and make sure [...]
“As an existing customer I am impressed with your reliability and fairness in your dealings with me. FYI: The same cannot be said of my experiences of ** with whom we no longer trade – between my daughter and myself we have been sadly disappointed in at least 5 orders (phone an 0870 number if [...]
In Memoriam: U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D – NJ). Sen. Lautenberg fought valiantly to reform the weak laws protecting consumers in the US from chemical incursions in their lives. He introduced the “Safe Chemicals Act of 2010”, which was defeated, but followed up with the “Chemical Safety Improvement Act” which has been endorsed by […] […]
I ran into some interesting ideas that seem to display why we should not immediately discredit new science – like genetic engineering or nanotechnology – because it might well provide clues to how we can continue to live on this planet. So rather than taking a global stand against GMOs or nanotechnology perhaps we should […] […]
I’m happily planning what will be my new organic kitchen garden, and I keep thinking about agriculture and how it relates to Fritjof Capra’s statement that we are all part of a vast interconnected universe – one that is constantly in flux. And I also keep returning to the subject of how agriculture, as practiced […] […]