15
Apr
2007
indoor greenhouse
I’ve been talking about this to anyone who will listen for ages now!
I have an enormous bay window in my living room that gets blasted by the sun between about 5am and 1pm everyday. it seems a shame to waste all that energy on the two ropey plants that came with my flat, so I’ve got myself a grow bag and some seeds and I’m growing tomatoes. I’ll keep a tomato update going over the summer as they progress.
I think there is probably room for another 2 bags in there, so I’ll grow a few mint plants, in one, but I’m still searching for ideas for the other one.
This takes the idea of local food to a whole new level!
11
Apr
2007
my global footprint
| CATEGORY | GLOBAL HECTARES |
| FOOD | 1 |
| MOBILITY | 0.7 |
| SHELTER | 1.1 |
| GOODS/SERVICES | 1 |
| TOTAL FOOTPRINT | 3.8 |
| IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 5.3 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON. WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON. IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.1 PLANETS.  |
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that doesn’t fill me with optimism!
this is supposed to be the best carbon footprinty thingy around, and although I’m well below the national average, I’m still almost double the goal of 1.8, thank goodness there are poor people in third world counties that don’t use their full quota!
if you want to try it, it’s here
30
Nov
2006
new website
the old notion parallax website was never realy well formed enough to get tired, but it need a bit of a spruce up.
the plan is to branch out from here, so we’ll see were it goes.
if you want to get to any of the old content then it’s still here