I've been working on info for our website today. C has a program she paid for to make simple-ish websites and she'd done a fair amount of work on it but hit some walls because she needs my input and work. I haven't worked on it in awhile so today I wrote up some general info about categories and stuff ( Read more... )

The Greens have an interesting proposal to set up a single buyer to negotiate power prices for people, similar to how Pharmac negotiates & buys medicine. NZ Power would also encourage energy efficiency & the development of green energy sources. It sounds like an interesting proposal, particularly right now with the current govt selling Might ( Read more... )

This looks like an interesting documentary: "Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?".

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I saw it in an article in the NZ Herald. They also had a link to this pamphlet for Trees for Bees. It's NZ-specific but it's got some interesting recommendations for planting bee-friendly flowers, including things like when you plant flowers don't ( Read more... )

Important news for everyone ( Read more... )

I put a post over at Pinepig's Garden about harvesting the jicama last weekend. Here's a small taste of it:

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I've been wanting to put up a few of these articles but usually forget, get tired and/or have too much to say and don't want to make a Post of Doom.

1500 year old church found in Israel about an ancient Byzantine church that has been uncovered. Antique thieves have already started plundering it so archaelogists are recording and Doing ( Read more... )

There's a lot that's gone wrong with the whole BP Deepwater oil spill, I don't know where to begin. The spill itself is a start, the half-hearted attempts to stop the spill so they could instead try to harvest oil. Many of you have heard about the comments made by the company's officials and by it's head about "the small people", how the CEO ( Read more... )

I think this is important for people to watch. It's a video of Phillipe Cousteau and a news reporter diving into the oil spill. Even if BP's mud solution stops the flow of oil so much destruction has been done to the ecosystem. Sadly, this will affect us all. Look at the thickness of the mess of oil and dispersants. This is now in the world's ( Read more... )

Short post, exhausted ( Read more... )