If you, like me, tend to get depressed when the light disappears, this might help cheer you up.
Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Bright Yellow Flowers
Posted in General, tagged bright, cheerful, flowers, light, yellow on 31 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Do plants have feelings?
Posted in Animal rights, General, Veg'anism, tagged animals, eating, feelings, plants, sentient on 26 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Meat eaters sometimes claim that plants have feelings, not so they can avoid eating them, but so they can ignore the fact that animals most definitely do have feelings. This article discusses the possibility of plants being sentient.
Top Ten Reasons I Won’t Date a Meat-Eater
Posted in General, Veg'anism, tagged date, film, meat-eater, vegan, video on 8 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Look at this video to see what those are. I can only agree. There are probably more reasons, but these will do.
Low-cost Multipurpose Minibuilding Made with Earthbags
Posted in Environment, General, tagged article, building, cheap, earth on 2 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just read this cool article. I’m always on the lookout for ways of adding to my home and the yard. For instance, I’ve been missing a root cellar at my place. This might beĀ a way of getting one. Definitely worth a try.
75 Things You Can Compost, But Thought You couldn’t
Posted in Environment, General, tagged compost, garden, surprising on 2 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Informative and useful article about what you can put in your compost. I’ll bet there’s stuff on this list you didn’t know. I know I didn’t.
Our own little microcommunity
Posted in General, tagged community, discussions, green, microcommunity, shoutem, twitterlike, vegan, veggie on 12 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’d like to take this chance to promote our own little microcommunity – working in connection with our Ning network – a ‘big’ community – or quite independently of it. It’s a Twitterlike microcommunity – ShoutEm – where we discuss veg*anism, animal rights, human rights, feminism, the environment and more, and we share veggie recipes [...]
Cool ad
Posted in Animal rights, General, Veg'anism, tagged ad, Jamie Bamber, peta on 24 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another (slightly late) update about Tibet
Posted in General, Human Rights, tagged dam, kill, police, protest, shoot, Tibet on 31 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chinese police shoot dam protesters. Six women killed. You’ll find the news here.
Workmen… We’ve had such problems with workmen. First they don’t want to work for us at all. Then, when you can get one to come, they don’t want to do what you ask them to, and above all, once they’ve finally started, they don’t want to stop. In the end, they’ve gone far beyond the [...]
Our garden again
Posted in General, tagged flowers, green, paprika, pepper, plant on 4 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our paprika/pepper from last year is recovering! This is the beginning of our garden in pots, and there will be more later, hopefully. We’ll see how much we’ll get round to.




