I never would have thought, until I had spent some time immersed in the world of permaculture and growing my own, that a large pile of rotting manure could be a source of such pleasure. There is something utterly magical about the biological processes that go on in a pile of decomposing organic matt...

Guardian: New year cheer is pretty hard to find in the recycling industry and council waste departments. The annual deluge of post-Christmas cans, paper and bottles for recycling can seem overwhelming, but this year's short-term problem is compounded by a dismal world market. Problems for recycling ...

Guardian: New year cheer is pretty hard to find in the recycling industry and council waste departments. The annual deluge of post-Christmas cans, paper and bottles for recycling can seem overwhelming, but this year's short-term problem is compounded by a dismal world market. Problems for recycling ...

(Image: Rich Pedroncelli/AP) On the homepage of the Container Recycling Institute is a counter clocking how many beverage containers have been landfilled, littered and incinerated in the United States. This year alone the counter has tallied over 125 billion bottles and cans. Amazingly, the average ...

Yesterday morning, while chivvying my kids along to eat their breakfast and clean their teeth (not simultaneously), I had one ear on a piece on Radio 4’s Today programme about the economy and recession, prompted by Marks and Spencer’s dismal drop in share price, and its CEO talking of &#...

Idaho Statesman - I love you... I read you every day. INL, INEL, INEEL - however you want me to call you, I think you guys are awesome! Gov. Otter - I dig you, I may not fully understand you,......

So, ‘Sex and the City’ wasn’t the only film I saw this week, as it turns out (amazing how many comments that piece generated!). I also had the pleasure to see the excellent new film ‘Garbage Warrior’ which focuses on the life and work of Michael Reynolds, who developed ...

I have to confess I had never really thought about this before. I strive to be mindful in daily life of not using more heated water than I need to, to keep energy bills and CO2 emissions down, and also of not wasting cold water, particularly for watering the garden, due to its being a precious resou...

At a time when it is entirely self-evident to anyone who takes an interest in these things that the Age of Cheap Oil is over, that the world is about to enter an unprecedented energy transition and that we are led by people with no idea what to do about it, I was intrigued to be given a clipping fro...

I had the enormous misfortune on Saturday to visit a garden centre. You might think that an avid gardener like myself would feel as home in a garden centre as I do in a record shop. However, modern warehouse-like garden centres have as little to do with gardening as Virgin megastores have to do with...