Freeconomy Blog - April 2008
Mon
28 Apr
I can't write this morning...
I was about to sit down to write this blog this morning and set about it in my usual manner. One part of my blogging process is to research the tonnes of stuff people send me every week, to see what I can add to my own thoughts. This week one such link I received in my mailbox was an online documentary called Earthlings (click on link to watch). So, as normal, I watched it to see whether or not it is was worth relaying to all you wonderful people.
Sun
20 Apr
Why did I take the red pill…?
Sometimes, just every now and then, I wish I had taken the blue pill. You know that scene in The Matrix, where Morpheus offers Neo a choice between two pills; if he takes the blue bill, he carries on existing habitually in a zombie like state, accepting everything he has been conditioned to believe since he was born into this world. However, if he takes the red pill, he has the opportunity to seek truth, but he must give up every one of the myths he had previously based his whole life on.
Wed
16 Apr
The Transition experiment expands beyond just food...
I’ll be honest with you, I am not much of a movie man. I would like to say it is because the embodied energy of most modern day movies is the equivalent of roughly five thousand long haul flights. But the truth is that they rarely excite me.
Sun
13 Apr
Even I wasn’t expecting it this soon...
I don’t know how many of you have been reading the news this week – I don’t usually, I find that its focus on the negative tends to, surprisingly, have a depressing and paralysing effect on me. However one of the main stories this week really caught my eye – the food riots that are occurring all over the world, some of which have brought down the Haitian government.
Mon
07 Apr
For those of us who still aren't money-free...
I’m fast becoming an expert on the country of origin of every product on the shelves of UK health food stores – I’ve just spent the last few days trawling through products, squinting at the small print where it inevitably says ‘Produce of Turkey’ or worse, ‘Produce of more than one country’. On the plus side, I’ve learned that safflower and hemp seed oil is pressed from local crops, which solved one of my concerns about it all.
Sat
05 Apr
The local food, no plastic, no bin experiment...
After writing my last blog and realising that my food bill was almost half of my estimated annual costs for this year, I realised that working an allotment was not only something I really wanted to do, but a money-free imperative. So whilst applying for a plot on my nearest allotment site, a friend from the gardening world popped over to offer me his patch.