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Green Hour – it’s kids and nature

I’d like to introduce you to a site called Green Hour. Green Hour is run by the National Wildlife Federation and it’s all about bringing kids and nature in contact with each other. The premise is that by setting aside just one hour per day for children to interact with nature we can bring about [...]

5 Tools for Planting a Vegetable Garden

When it comes to planting a vegetable garden, I’m a lazy gardener, and also a little bit fussy. I like to have the right tools, but the right tools are not power tools. They are basic, down-to-earth, robust items which I love the feel of and which will last me for years. They are tools [...]

Five Lazy Ways to Compost – Part 2 – Worms

Last week when I posted Part 1 of Lazy Ways to Compost a couple of you commented that the easiest way to compost was to just pile compost up and do nothing. This is certainly a valid point, which I will come back to. The idea of being pretty inactive about the whole process reminded [...]

Five Lazy Ways to Compost – Part 1 – Tumbling

For some time now I’ve been planning to start composting. Now, this is not the first time I’ve thought of this, or even tried it. The trouble is that I’m lazy. I’m ashamed to say that one time I went as far as buying several large trash cans that I thought would do the composting [...]

Sticker Shock on Saving the Earth

While traveling at the weekend I had two interesting book experiences.

Firstly, I had a good old sticker shock experience. I was browsing around one of those newsagent bookstores looking for a good book to read. To my dismay, and surprise, the average paperback book price was $14.95. Since when did that become the average paperback [...]