Freeconomy Blog - March 2009
Fri
27 Mar
More of the positive, less of the negative...
I had a bit of a realisation last weekend. For a while I have been in a little bit of a negative head space, looking at the world around me and seeing the not-so-good stuff – the wars, the sweatshops, the factory farms, and all the other symptoms of a world where we don’t have to see the direct and indirect consequences of what we consume.
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Fri
20 Mar
Should this Blog become the Community Blog?
When children are born they are initially dependent on their parents for almost everything. However, as kids gets older, this dependency fades, and by the time the little rascals are four years old they want to be off doing their own thing, though still having the security of having a parent around.
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Sat
14 Mar
Stop giving the banks a hard time!
The banks have had a rough year in many respects; their share prices have plummeted, they have had to go cap in hand to the government and they are rife with toxic assets, bad debts, and greed. And apparently the worst is still yet to come, as many of the root causes of the credit crunch have still not been dealt with. Yet they still give themselves huge bonuses regardless of the fact that many of them have made losses of billions of pounds!
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Sun
08 Mar
The Top 10 skills for the future...
I was talking with Fergus Drennan yesterday, a mate who came over from Canterbury to run this week's Freeskilling evening, a weekly event put on by the local Bristol Freeconomy Group, where he showed a large audience how to make foraged toothpaste, paper and card out of mushrooms, plasters and a razor strop from a Birch Polypore, and even pillows and insulation out of wild reed mace, amongst a host of other amazing foraging hints and tips.
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