Bitterjug’s blog

I think it’s a great idea to use a web site, influding a Facebook page, to petition the Prime Minister to make an address to the nation on Climate Change. Whether or not you believe that politicans are able and wiling to make a difference, I believe it will bring the debate to the attention [...]

After an hour or so, I found myself among those preparing porridge and tea for the campers who had remained in line matching the police cordon. As I think about it again now, I am struck by the potential of a standoff like this, between campers and the police, to meet many needs

Is climate camp, perhaps, dependent on the police? Would it be as effective without them? Effective as a media phenomenon? Effective as a demonstration of solidarity and self-organization for sustainable living?

After a couple of days of re-sealing tent seams and adjusting the gears on my bike, the bike-trailer is full of sleeping bags and mats and the packed lunch is ready. Bitterjug is cycling to climate camp, leaving in three hours time.

Despite my recent challenge to self to do something about the state of the planet, I neither wrote here what it was that I wanted to do; and neither, in fact, have I done it. What’s that all about?

Karen called me a gardener a month ago at Schumacher college, because I had found my garden. I replied that we were not real gardeners until we had eaten from our garden. That time has come. I

I recently gave a talk at Schumacher College, as part of my Certificate in Education course there, on free and open source software, the Creative Commons, wikis and ending up with Wikipedia. Copyleft licenses like the GPL and Creative Commons share-alike encourage creative people to share their work for use and expansion by others, and [...]

I’ve been writing a load of stuff about serious issues here lately; it’s time for a bit of fun. Since I have a YooChube account now (since the garden video) I am able to upload odd bits of video I might find on my hard disk. Here, thanks to Jerome for taking it, is [...]

Sunday evening I watched Escape From Suburbia. A Peak Oil movie with, reportedly, a more upbeat message than The End Of Suburbia (which I haven not seen and, probably won’t be rushing out to watch).
If this is upbeat, I need syncopation.

I have decided that my notebook is a cool place and I would like to visit it more often. In particular I’d like to go read it sometimes and not just write in it. I opened it today, looking for a list of questions that I remember writing on a train going somewhere, and [...]