I was given a copy of the Al Gore documentary on climate change - I know it's been around a while but I've only just got to watch it now. It's something you want everyone to watch. An image I couldn't get out of my mind after the film is that of the polar bears they have found drowned because they are having to swim further and further to find ice to land on. If you haven't yet seen it (or was I the only one?) then make an effort to get hold of a copy.
I have introduced the 'Piss Bucket' in the bathroom which means we don't need to pull the chain on the toilet anymore which requires the electricity to power the water pump to refill the toilet. Instead we use the bucket and empty the contents on the compost heap - anything else we still use the toilet for until we build our own dry composting toilet. I'm looking forward to reading my next copy of Permaculture Works as there is an article on what to do with our urine.
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I thought you were supposed to put urine on your compost heap so that all the nitrogen could active the bacteria there and break the vegetation down. Easier for a boy to wee on a compost heap than a girl though. As for the inconvenient truth, those pictures of polar bears drowning weren't anything of the kind but I suppose it made for a good picture. There's always a new end of the world story in the papers, it sells copy, gains research grants and gives politicians new reasons to tax us and boss us around. I'm still waiting to die of bird flu or get cancer from mobile phones, never mind worrying what the weather's going to be like in a hundred years time.
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