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Tim Barry:hermit with a publicist

Tim Barry has been rockognised.

The singer songwriter from Richmond VA lives back of his girlfriend’s house in a shed with a busted kerosene heater – not great at this time of year, but ok, really, when you are wearing camouflage coveralls to fight the chill.

Winter has been harsh but the shed balances Barry’s queasy relationship with fame. Since the early ’90s, he’s fronted the speed ’n’ scream punk rock band Avail, but he isn’t always as comfortable with the attention.

He’s a hermit with a publicist.

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Soccer’s swampy bugs out

January 15, 2010
Soccer’s swampy bugs out MANCHESTER United defender Gary Neville is building an earth sheltered eco home that promises to become one of Britain's leading environmental showcases.

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Living for free

January 12, 2010
Living for free 27-year-old Katharine Hibbert is a nice middle class girl. She writes book reviews for the Times Literary Supplement, and volunteers for the Food not Bombs group which finds food in dumpsters and turns it into free meals in London. For the last two years she has freed herself by living for free,and writtten a book about it (we hope she got an advance from Ebury Press). Free: Adventures on the Margins of a Wasteful Society (click to buy) describes how she walked away from all her possessions (books, music and other treasures stored in mum's garage), found a squat, and lived on food discarded by cafes and supermarkets.

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Real-life Canute fights coast ruling

November 26, 2009
Real-life Canute fights coast ruling A retired engineer who built his own sea defences is trying to reverse a legal judgement which would result in his home being washed into the sea. 78 year old Peter Boggis has spent seven years and over fifty thousand pounds of his own money constructing a kilometre long sea wall from 25,000 tonnes of compacted clay.  He is trying to stop the sea eroding cliffs just a hundred yards away from his home at Easton Bavents, north of Southwold in Suffolk, UK. Mr Boggis started the work without planning permission.

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A Freegan Feast for 500

November 11, 2009
A Freegan Feast for 500 There can’t have been anything like it since the beardy bloke in Galilee fed the five thousand with some loaves and a few fish. British campaigners are planning to mark Buy Nothing Day later this month with a ‘freegan’ feast for up to five hundred people. Not only will the guests pay nothing for their three course meal -with drink, nor will the hosts, because every item on the menu will be foraged, found or donated.

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Peak Oil is now says IEA

November 10, 2009
Peak Oil is now says IEATHE world will have to find four Saudi Arabias by 2030 if it wants to maintain its oil consumption habit, says the International Energy Agency’s chief economist, Dr Fatih Birol. “The reality of peak oil is fast approaching,” said Dr Birol (whose figures are used by governments everywhere to forecast their own future oil budgets. He said that to an Australian newspaper last week.  And he had told the same thing to the Guardian in an article last year. - True, he had to have it dragged out of him by eco-writer George Monbiot, but Birol  eventually confessed that the rate of decline in oil production, which was stated by the IEA in 2007 as being 3.7%, was in fact  6.7% and would lead to a “temporary supply crunch,”as he put it. So it is strange that the Guardian today has announced two IEA whistleblowers “claim it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.”

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Under the Dome – book preview

November 7, 2009
Under the Dome – book preview Stephen King's latest novel is about a small town that is suddenly and mysteriously taken off the grid.  Events gives the town bully free rein in this dystopian tale, titled Under the Dome , to be released on November 10, 2009. It is a rewrite of a novel King attempted twice before, under the title The Cannibals. As King stated on his official site, these two unfinished works "were two very different attempts at the same idea, which concerns itself with how people behave when they are cut off from the society they've always belonged to. " From the material originally written in the 1980s, only the first chapter is included in the new novel." The New York Times review says: 

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Shoestring Survivalism – book review

October 20, 2009
Shoestring Survivalism – book reviewThis is the third book I received from Paladin Press to review. I appreciate the chance to read and review these books, I have enjoyed them immensely. This book is about survivalism on a budget. Being on a budget is a full time occupation for most of us.  With these uncertain times, it's good to have backups, ways to get along if things go wrong. It's ludicrous to think the government will step up and take care of us, your best bet is to be your own best advocate, take care of yourself and your family. With the knowledge gained from this book, even someone on the tightest of budgets should be able to implement many of the ideas in this book with little or no financial output.

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Dismal UK energy prospects will boost DIY power

October 11, 2009
Dismal UK energy prospects will boost DIY power FoE's Robin Webster: "useless"Micro-generation suddenly looks a better bet in the UK after an official report painted a dismal picture of insecure energy supplies and yo-yo prices over the next decade. In a tacit admission that the private sector and the national grid are failing to deliver energy security, the study by UK energy regulator Ofgem predicts that consumers could face price volatility with energy price spikes of up to 60 per cent within the next 7 years.

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