There is much talk of desertification of the countryside in France, with people leaving for the big towns and cities; doctors are difficult to find in small communities, jobs are rare, and city lights…
Isolation and Reciprocity Read Post »
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Green gas : winds of change in France Read Post »
[multilanguage_switcher]‘Base muleteers of France… dare not take up arms like gentlemen!’ (Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI, III.ii.68.)
Mules and muleteers have played a key role in the world’s economic growth; without their hard work, stam…
The Royal Jack and the Knight of Malta Read Post »
A messy subject, but important for our environment and economics. Manure is still massively under-exploited. Alone, it is a fertilizer full of pathogens which get spread back onto the fields. But put through a methane digester under anaerobic c…
Mess, manure, and anaerobic digesters Read Post »
The snow fell quietly, covering the settlement in a thick white blanket. The shaman had told Okwana she’d recognize the singing hut by the large narwhal ivory which jutted up out of the roof; it whistled when the wind raced over the ice, he’d said. …
Arctic Shaman's Seance Read Post »
Two expert reports on the state of the environment in France were published this July, one by the French National Agency for Health Security Anses (Agence nation…
France's environmental dilemma Read Post »
A half crazed warrior Thorgeir and his poet brother Thormod were in the Icelandic mountains picking angelica for their soups, salads, and medicinal remedies. At a place known as Thorgeir’s ledge, near Hornstrandir in the Western Fjords where the …
Archangels and Angelica Read Post »
In Iceland, vast swathes of silvery moss spread over endless stretches of land which has been ripped up by volcanic shifts and eruptions. Unlike the chaotic, jagged basalt boulders and the ravines beneath, the moss lies like a smooth blanket, or …
Feast and Famine: Icelandic "Moss" Read Post »
The ban in France on neonicotinoids takes effect on 1st September 2018. Dispensations for farmers will be possible up to July 2020. Industrial giants Bayer and Syngenta warn of economic and agricultural deadlock while there are no plausible
France votes in ban on neonicotinoids Read Post »
[multilanguage_switcher]The five-acre field up our road stretched out like a yellow pall under the sky, desiccated. The local farmer had sprayed it before re-ploughing and sowing his next crop. He sprayed it with glyphosate – what dosage we’ll ne…
Glyphosate: the War on Weeds Read Post »
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I'm All Right Jack. What the French say about Brexit. Read Post »
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Spot the Bee with the number plate in London Read Post »
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