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Why your world is about to get a whole lot smaller

March 28, 2010

You would expect Jeff Rubin’s “Why Your World is About to get a Whole Lot Smaller” to go into a great deal of depth on the issue of peak oil but his exploration of peak corn, food and natural gas are well written and interesting escapades. His writing style makes a whole heap of stats […]

Does it have to be rocket science?

November 30, 2009

Working in an industry where innovation is all too often applauded for its own sake, it makes me wonder to what extent we are all drawn to the shiny and new, even when the old and reliable is still, well, reliable? Some recent thinking on Cloud Whitening may be about to confirm my thoughts. It […]

The River Cottage Cookbook

November 30, 2009

Tremendous stuff. Really. This is right up there with one of those weekends when you turn on the TV at 9am only to find it’s wall to wall Whittingstall as far as the eye can see. Don’t expect too many recipes here, they really do take back seat to pages of prep and animal husbandry. […]

Is being green a new religion?

November 9, 2009

There are the obvious stereotypical parallels: a penchant for sandals, a preponderance of beards and a professed love of world peace, but recent events at an employment tribunal go some way to suggesting a green lifestyle might more properly be thought of as tantamount to religious, or certainly, philosophical in their nature. In the case in […]

The Urban Hen

September 1, 2009

With piles of books still waiting to be read, there really was no reason to pop into Borders on the way back home this bank holiday on the off chance that I could resist buying yet more. But that’s exactly what I did – pop in, not resist, naturally. Indeed, as many have said before […]

Novel gym membership idea from Waitrose in disguise?

August 26, 2009

Can’t help but wonder if tricks are being missed all over the developed world. People are spending large amounts of pounds (£££) to divest themselves of large amounts of pounds (lbs), largely because they’ve spent too many of the former on eating too many of the latter in the first place. The easy answer is not […]

A kilo of soup

August 19, 2009

Does anybody really need a kilo of soup? Eat has treated me very well of late but I can’t help wonder why, having a 12oz and 16oz offering, they felt the need to introduce another size up – and went for 32oz? Is there something fundamentally offensive about 20oz or even 24oz? The 32oz portion, […]