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Alex
Aug 10, 20232 min read
To hell with sustainability!
"To hell with good intentions" was an address given in 1968 by the Austrian philosopher Ivan Illich. In it he chastises a well-meaning...
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Alex
May 16, 20212 min read
The Church of Zero Carbon
Poor old carbon, the second most abundant element in our bodies. A key part of ourselves and the backbone for global transformation in...
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Alex
Nov 11, 20202 min read
Letting go of your lawn
Lawns and gardens go hand in hand, like salt and chips or Paul Hollywood and St. Tropez.
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Alex
Aug 28, 20201 min read
Address the cause not the symptom
Or put another way: prevention is better than cure. I've been coming back to this principle as assistance on the climate change debate...
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Alex
Feb 29, 20202 min read
The importance of organic practices in gardening
We are familiar with the term 'organic' for food production, for plants that we eat. For plants that we buy and grow for aesthetic reasons
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Alex
Jan 29, 20201 min read
Don't put your garden to bed
Through well-intentioned acts of cutting everything back to bare soil and stalks or ignoring the potential of winter-flowering plants we mi
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