Of all the Literary Festivals I’ve appeared at this year, Ways With Words at the beautiful Dartington Hall in Totnes is the one that has given me the biggest squidgy feeling in the pit of my stomach.
The annual festival takes place from July 10-19 at Dartington Hall in South Devon and my slot is carved into the [...]
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I’ve Got Rubbish ‘Ways With Words’
Posted in General rubbish, Household rubbish, Rubbish Q&A, Rubbish celebrities, Rubbish events, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish news, tagged Dartington Hall, Devon, Green Books, Literary Festival, Rob Hopkins, Shaun Chamberlain, Tamzin Pinkerton, Totnes, Tracey Smith, Ways With Words on 12 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rubbish Videos – What’s Coming Soon?
Posted in Rubbish movies, tagged Add new tag, beat the credit crunch, British Antarctic Survey, Channel 5 News, Eco Balls, Essential Oils, Get Started with Compost, Get Started with Wormery, How to Grow Tomatoes, How to Make Flatbreads, How to Make Fresh Pizza, money saving tips, Rob Hopkins, Soapnuts, Soda Crystals, Sustainable Living, Transition Town, Work / Life Balance, You Tube on 11 August 2008 | 2 Comments »
What better way is there to get a message across, than to actually show it to you?
I love making films and have a little stack of them being edited as we speak (well, write, but you know what I mean)…
Over the coming weeks, I’ll be showing you: -
How to make flatbreads [...]
The Rubbish Solution’s in Transition
Posted in Rubbish activism, tagged Climate Change, Community, Obsolescence, Peak Oil, Rob Hopkins, Rubbish, Sustainability, Transition Town, Womble on 1 August 2008 | 4 Comments »
So what is a Transition Town (village, city, forest or island for that matter)?
In their own words, it is: – “A community working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question: “For all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?”
It sounds like a bit of a mouthful at first I know, but once you get your head around the concept it’s pretty straightforward and by heeding it’s recommendations, you can make an immediate and considerable difference to reducing your rubbish too!