Posted: 05 Oct 2011 in
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Key ingredients, biodiversity & farming blog
Just think, if every time you brought a plastic bag home from the shops you buried it in your back garden, you would soon be accutly aware of their impact on the environment and wondering why you needed all these plastic bags in the first place – surely a reusable bag would have done the trick!
Posted: 29 Sep 2011 in
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Bad policy will lead to bad development which will blight out towns and cities for decades to come. Promoting development for developments sake surely cannot be sustainable in the medium to long term. We need development that supports local communities and businesses and enhances our towns. Many prominent organisations such as Friends of the Earth, The National Trust and the Daily Telegraph are mounting campaigns against the draft NPPF in order to help protect our countryside and heritage and urge you to get involved.
Posted: 17 Aug 2011 in
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Blaencamel Farm, an organic vegetable farm in west Wales, has recently become one of the first carbon neutral farms in the country according to Farmer’s Weekly.
Posted: 17 Aug 2011 in
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Here at Saffron Organic we don’t believe GM crops are the answer and as such you won’t find any GM in the products we sell. But what about growing GM crops for fuel instead of food or beauty?
Posted: 15 Aug 2011 in
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Drawing inspiration from nature, where animals such as spiders, create incredible complex structures that do not drain natural resources, require toxic processes or produce waste, can provide us with solutions to numerous problems. For example, architects can adapt buildings to be more flexible to cope with the impact of earthquakes.
Posted: 04 Apr 2011 in
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Sustainability is all about using the natural resources available responsibly for the benefit of the environment, society and the economy. Two weeks ago Monsanto announced their latest genetically engineered crop which it hopes to bring to market. Monsanto say the new product will help in weed control and “deliver peace of mind for growers”.
Posted: 04 Apr 2011 in
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This week BBC presenter Kate Humble was praised for pointing out that schools should take pupils out to the countryside, but as Clive Aslet points out in his article in the Telegraph, this is surely common sense?
Posted: 04 Apr 2011 in
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A new generation of pesticides used on 2.5 million acres of UK farmland known as “neonicotinoid” pesticides have triggered growing concerns as the Government’s most senior scientific advisor, Professor Robert Watson, orders a review of the evidence used to justify their safety.