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Actually some people call it the chicken palace - I call it IKEA because it can be flat-packed I haven't been blogging for a while and now you know why! I have been spending every spare minute creating a chook pen so we can get a cycle of life going...
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Just a short note to start - here is a cool frog who peeked his head into what I was doing in the garden. He's hanging off the branch of a tree fern. Looks like a baby tree frog. Frogs are a good sign that something is right in your garden. They are...
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As a first time mum, it didn't take me long to notice the massive amounts of used disposable nappies heading for landfill each week from our place. And while disposables are an amazingly useful (and absorbent) invention when it comes to changing a...
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Well it's been a long time between posts but I have been very busy - both at work and around the house. Most of my time has been spent creating a chook-house for our new chickens - more on that in my next post. I thought I would make a quick post...
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It is now many months post-launch of Small Footprints and I finally made it a priority to sit down and write my first ever blog post! And so I begin with a bit about me. My life as a mountain kat, (aka KittyKat), is abundant and full....... I am greeted...
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It can seem in the busy, busy life of the Noughties, that environmentalism is just another sticking pin in the race-track of our daily schedules, tripping us up as we race around the A4 page of a timetable; expressing dismayed, disapproving looks over...
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Imagination seems a lost art in our age of information technology, so let’s take a few minutes to indulge ourselves. Imagine if the whole world was blind. Just for a second. Imagine by closing your eyes, lifting your face, and taking a deep breath...
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True sustainability Part i. Introduction - Sustaining the earth “sustain … v.t. bear weight of or support, esp. for a long period; endure, stand; undergo or suffer (defeat, injury, loss, etc.);…uphold; substantiate or corroborate;...
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It is well into winter now and the garden is starting to come along. I'm growing: lettuce, kale, brocolli, cabbage (red and drum), radishes, turnips, rhubarb, spinach and a few other things in these beds. As you can see from the pics, organic gardening...
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Get ready for higher oil prices. A new study by CSIRO (Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) titled " Modelling of the future of transport fuels in Australia " has found that in any scenario, the cost...
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A new research paper by a respected climate change scientist points to the fact that a specialised synthetic chemical used in the manufacturing of flat-screen tvs and notebooks could be a large contributer to greenhouse gas emmissions. Professor Michael...
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A new study by the consumer group choice has found that running a computer or games console in your home can be more expensive to run than other major whitegood appliances. They compared a number of computer products and games consoles to determine the...
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Empowering Yourself We finally took the plunge and took advantage of the many rebates on offer to have a grid connect solar system installed at our home. Too much of the media at the time was concentrating on industry wide solutions to the energy crisis...
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