In March 2010, global scientists and engineers will convene in California, to talk about trials of radical ideas, such as putting mirrors in space to divert the sun’s rays to fertilising the ocean with iron to kick start carbon sucking ecosystems. They will do this because despite what some people still think, the planet is [...]

Update : Isle of Wight festival here I come.  (The Elderflower Champagne exploded today). If one thing gets my attention it’s cheap alcohol.  I’ve had a few experiments with brewing my own alcohol over the years, but these have been from cans of prepared mix and never from straight from mother nature. Elderflower champagne has [...]

Ostrich, snails, aligator, usually the stranger the better for me, just check out my fun with bacon (http://greenguysglobal.com/blog/meat-bu … ng-smoking). Looking for 20 other meat-eaters to join me between Fri 12th – Mon 15th JUNE and try out vegetarianism. NO MEAT FOR 4 DAYS – EASY? SIGNUP http://www.pledgebank.com/4DayVeggie OR text ‘pledge 4DayVeggie’ to 60022 (in [...]

A few years ago I visited the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, USA,  ‘Pigs. If you ever need to be self sufficient, Pigs are what you need.  Eat anything, and the whole animal can be used’.  That was the message of one of the colonial actresses as she made up another batch of lard scones on [...]

For some time now I’ve tried to reduce the amount of meat in my diet, knowing full well, meat can be expensive in price and cause greenhouse gas emissions. In fact UN figures suggest that meat production puts more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than transport. (1) I’ve been sea fishing since I was a [...]

I’m no gardener. Well I wasn’t until about a year or so ago. Having preached to all my friends for years about the environment I felt it was time to stop talking the talk and start walking the walk.

But why “dig for victory”? Surely you can dig all you want and still end up with nothing to eat.

What do Food and Climate Change have in common? Well if you look at this Cars=13% of all carbon emissions and Livestock=18% of all carbon emissions eating less meat or even going Vegetarian/Vegan is better than switching to a hybrid car and even better if you go vegan and own a hybrid! About 5 months [...]

Frankenstein foods, biodiversity loss, corporate takeover of the countryside. These have all been given as reasons to hate GM. That’s my experience in the UK. Some Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in poorer countries support the use of GM crop. These NGOs see it as another problem: the gap between the rich and the poor, between [...]

According to research behind a recent BBC Panorama programme called ‘Bottled Water – Who needs it?’ (1), a litre of a well known French mineral water, generates 600 times as much Carbon Dioxide as a litre of London tap water. I’m as guilty as anyone when it comes to buying the stuff. Ironically I only [...]