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 Topic: Where recycling pays |
cab
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 Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Fri Mar 18, 11 10:52 pm Subject: Where recycling pays |
"Having no incentive to reduce waste is poisonous to your aims. We have a separate, visible fee that is intentionally not embedded within a local tax."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/ ... |
| Topic: Air pollution images |
cab
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Thu Mar 17, 11 9:48 am Subject: Air pollution images |
For anyone interested:
http://tinyurl.com/64bkmb2 |
| Topic: Libyan crisis, rising oil price, and over-due realism |
cab
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Tue Mar 15, 11 8:44 am Subject: Libyan crisis, rising oil price, and over-due realism |
| Faffing about with speed limits is worthwile, but its playing about at the edges. The fundamental problem is that we've made transit by anything other than the private car absurdly difficult, we've pu ... |
| Topic: Libyan crisis, rising oil price, and over-due realism |
cab
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Tue Mar 15, 11 8:26 am Subject: Libyan crisis, rising oil price, and over-due realism |
| Speed limits aren't so widely ignored (was it over 90% of motorists when surveyed admitted regularly breaking them?) that you can't effectively do much to change behaviour without improving enforcemen ... |
| Topic: Mead Yeast |
cab
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Tue Mar 15, 11 7:57 am Subject: Mead Yeast |
| I use champagne yeast for mead. Gives a mead with a cleaner taste, and it matures well in the bottle. |
| Topic: Libyan crisis, rising oil price, and over-due realism |
cab
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Mon Mar 14, 11 9:21 am Subject: Libyan crisis, rising oil price, and over-due realism |
It appears that the green groups brought in to vet new policy directions think very, very little of the governments plans...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/mar/13/greenpeace-attacks-gov ... |
| Topic: Woodland plants - identification please! |
cab
Replies: 54
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Mon Mar 14, 11 8:58 am Subject: Woodland plants - identification please! |
that pale shiny green does look like newly sprouted ground elder but the bobbly bits for me make it a definite dogs mercury id.
cab- the bobbly bits - paler greenish yellow -are clearest on the ... |
| Topic: Woodland plants - identification please! |
cab
Replies: 54
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Mon Mar 14, 11 8:55 am Subject: Woodland plants - identification please! |
Bobbly bits?
It'd be easy enough to be sure though, the two smell rather different, and in hand they're not at all confusing. |
| Topic: Woodland plants - identification please! |
cab
Replies: 54
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Mon Mar 14, 11 8:42 am Subject: Woodland plants - identification please! |
Could be a fine example of me wandering up to a patch of tasty plants with an expectant look on my face, only to be disappointed. Only happens once or twice on every forage 
Dunno though, look ... |
| Topic: Fruit I D Please ? |
cab
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Mon Mar 14, 11 8:41 am Subject: Fruit I D Please ? |
| Very small and very red for chequers. If you get a chance, wander around Oxford botanical gardens at some point, they've got some very fine examples of chequers. |
| Topic: Foraging without damaging |
cab
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Mon Mar 14, 11 8:29 am Subject: Foraging without damaging |
This is a discussion we've had here in the Foraging section a few times.
Its important to forage responsibly. Do no harm. The huge increase in foraging for sale and for the restaurant trade is putt ... |
| Topic: Woodland plants - identification please! |
cab
Replies: 54
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Mon Mar 14, 11 8:22 am Subject: Woodland plants - identification please! |
Probably cow parsley, but it would be foolish to try to identify such a thing from a picture alone.
And the bottom one looks quite like ground elder from where I'm sitting.
The top one has been ... |
| Topic: Anyone grown Mitsuba |
cab
Replies: 7
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Fri Mar 11, 11 3:50 pm Subject: Anyone grown Mitsuba |
I only grew mitsuba once, and it was no more affected by snails and slugs than ordinary parsley, i.e. they more or less left it alone. I didn't grow it again though because I didn't really like it.
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| Topic: Silver Birch |
cab
Replies: 14
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Fri Mar 11, 11 2:17 pm Subject: Silver Birch |
| Try a little birch sap instead of water with whisky. Surprisingly good. |
| Topic: Silver Birch |
cab
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Fri Mar 11, 11 11:44 am Subject: Silver Birch |
| I'm glad I've made birch sap wine. One day I'll do it again. It isn't so amazing that I feel an urge to do it often though. |
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