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June 2005

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Home Exchange Holidays

home exchange, house exchange, home swap, homelink international, intervac, house swap, life swap, free holiday, house exchange agreement, First Home Exchange Alliance,

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International Space Station

outer space, space, underwater, living in space, NASA,International Space Station, Biomass Production System,

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The Green Dream

tree-house, tree house, arboratory, thetford forest, Alex Shirley-Smith,

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Ollie, row the boat ashore

Ollie Hicks, Allelujah

With three sets of oars, two months’ worth of provisions and one seriously tricked-out rowboat, a 23-year-old British adventurer is behind schedule in his solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.

Ollie Hicks pushed off from a marina dock about 20 miles south of Manhattan May 27th in a 24-foot open rowboat, hoping to become the youngest rower ever to make the 3,000-mile trip alone. His destination: Falmouth, England, an estimated 400,000 strokes away.

Hicks’ red boat is no fishermen’s dinghy. Equipped with a satellite telephone and a computer, it is a self-righting vessel with watertight cabins at the bow and the stern.

And he has packed its cargo holds with creature comforts, including a desalinator that makes seawater drinkable, an iPod music player, a small gas stove, a cache of dehydrated food and a six-pack of Yuengling beer. And of course, he figures he’ll have a chance to fish, so he brought along a pole.

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Sites to help eat cheap

cheap food, organic food, food, grow food, grow your own food, organic gardening, organic web sites, Trees for Life, Green thumb, ecoroof,

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Cheap laundry – eco-balls

Eco-balls reduce laundry cost by 75% Eco-balls are a way of doing the washing without using detergent or soap. If you live off-grid that means you can reuse water more easily, and if you live on the grid, it means you are adding less to the world’s pollution especially water pollution, while saving a bit of money. And yes, they do really work. We were sent a free sample by Insight EcoStore in Brighton, and so far have used them in 30 washes with no ill effects on the clothes or the machine. The clothes come out softer than with fabric softeners and there’s none of that yucky sludge to clear out of our washing machine. They are less sparklingly white, but we are not worried about that. No more hassle and expense of carting bulky powders and liquids home from the market!

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The Woodland House

Ben LAw, Woodland Way, Ecohouse, Woodland House, permaculture, living in the woods,

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The Real Good Life

ITV, reality TV, ecology programme, UK TV, Good Life, Talkback,

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World Environment Day & other events

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World Environment Day

Today is World Environment Day — actually it lasts a week. Details of this and other events this month:

Jun 1-5, 2005

World Environment Day 2005
San Francisco, CA, USA
The World Environment Day theme selected for 2005 is Green Cities and the slogan is Plan for the Planet! The agenda is to give a human face to environmental issues; empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development; promote an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes towards environmental issues; and advocate partnership which will ensure all nations and peoples enjoy a safer and more prosperous future.
1 415 355 9905 / info@wed2005.org

0393308359-01-_scthumbzzz_-7156249If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth – READ THIS BOOK – Buy it from Amazon

Other events follow

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