The idea of curling up in a warm, sunny corner on a cold winter’s day to bask in the screen glow of a Kindle instead of a good, paper book might sound, well… unorthodox…

The Alternative Technology Association has produced a useful little book to help renters reduce their energy and water consumption. There’s something missing, however…

David Arnold and Michele Margolis have been busy preparing next year’s Permaculture Calendar and Diary for you…

Always doing something interesting and useful, Rosemary Morrow’s new booklet on retrofitting her house for energy and water efficiency, and food production, has already inspired others…

TerraCircle Inc’s Australian project — a community sustainability action guide for local government…

JAMES BOYCE’S BOOK, Van Diemens Land, is a tale of how geography and environment can influence culture. The culture in question is that developed by convicts who were landed at the time that the colony was founded in 1803. Until the 1820s, when things changed to become harsher for convicts, they formed the majority of  Read more »

I’ve just finished reading William Gibson’s Spook Country, his most recent novel. Having now put it aside, I guess I’m trying to gather some thoughts about it. That remains a largely incomplete project and scenes from the book buzz around my head in a largely disconnected and somewhat random way. Gibson is noted as a  Read more »