A Sussex-based forest gardening project has overcome adversity to celebrate its 20th anniversary, writes Jan Goodey. And now it features one of the most eco of eco-builds in Britain, using all local timber, clay, straw ... and wine bottles.
… using all local timber, clay, straw ... and wine bottles. The Brighton-based Moulsecoomb … reduce the need for naked flames, there's a wine bottles set into the walls for …
A little-known licensing scheme allows over 100 Chinese companies to trade in wildlife products like tiger skins, ivory, bear bile and musk deer glands. Vicky Lee shows how the system provides cover for the lucrative illegal wildlife trade to reach wealthy buyers.
… which to make 'health' tonics (tiger bone wine). EIA was shown the head of the tiger and …
In 2010 Parisians sacked the private water companies. Now they are reaping the benefits of public cownership and control, writes Stephen Struthers - and it's high time for the UK to do the same.
… things the French do better than us - like wine, camembert and the romantic whispering of …
Eating wild plants and mushrooms is a pleasure we should all indulge in, believes open air gastronomist Humphrey Birley - and this new edition of 'Wild Food : a complete guide for foragers' is just what's needed to get us exploring woods, hedgerows, meadows and salt marshes in search of edible delicacies.
… nuts and fruits , and Teas, beers and wines. Recipes ... plus etymology, history, …
How we farm matters, writes Pat Thomas - not just for water, insects, birds and the wider environment, which benefit from organic farming, but also the nutritional value of our food. It's time to value the quality of what we eat, instead of prizing quantity above all.
… vegetable and grains (as well as baby foods, wine and seed oils). Had the authors also …
One hundred years ago this August, guns rang out as a Europe made unstable by hatred, nationalism and a complex web of treaties went to war. Now the entire world appears poised for conflagration, writes Guy Horton. But where are the leaders to pull us from the brink?
… ended up talking like this after a bottle of wine, he added. The Guns of August reverberate …
As well as being masters of water engineering, the Romans also engaged in a long distance trade in water across the Mediterranean - embodied in grain, oil, wine, cloth, metals and other goods. They also discovered the food-water-energy nexus - and not in a good way. We need to heed the warnings from Roman history.
… the Mediterranean - embodied in grain, oil, wine, cloth, metals and other goods. They also … response to climate change is deeply entwined with a sustainable untangling of the …
Hot date? Annie Levy shares some bitter-sweet, spicy secrets for a very special Valentine's night ... guaranteed rhino horn free, and not tested on animals.
… is wonderful for certain people. As is nice wine. And of course gestures of love, of help, …
For the US fracking industry - and for Vice-President Joe Biden - fracking is more than just a way to bring in vast amounts of cash, writes Steve Horn. It's also a key weapon in the US's long war with Russia, as Biden made clear this week in Kiev.
… in the making. In other words, it's ' old wine in a new bottle '. Gas 'support package' …
A new GM bacterium can produce bioethanol from coarse switchgrass, rather than using food crops like maize, writes Tim Radford. It does this by 'digesting' the tough cellulose that yeasts are unable to break down.
… yeasts turn barley into beer or grapes into wine. "Given a choice between teaching an …
Scotland's native forest remains in only a few fragments, but Trees For Life is working to restore it, and almost all of the work is done by volunteers. Philip Mason joined their newly expanded long-term volunteer programme for two months last autumn.
… The smell is earthy and sharp, like some wild wine fermenting. Seed gathering feels like the …
The IPCC's latest report makes a stark contrast with Osborne's recent budget, writes Molly Scott Cato. It was all about sacrificing our future for short term benefit - when as the IPCC makes clear, what we need is the precise opposite.
… shares in non-trading companies, empty wine cellars in Bordeaux, never-to-be-built …
The tree-clad hills of Spain's Sierra de Huelva retain their beauty, wildlife and traditions, writes Jan Nimmo, who has speant a decade exploring the area on horseback. Just one thing is missing: the throngs of people that once inhabited and managed the land.
… afford rural tourism, jamón serrano or fine wine with corks. The cork industry is under … by petro-dollars - and New World and European wine makers whose corporate lobbyists have …
Europe's periphories are meant to be in a state of collapse - but not so the Shetland Isles, where Thembi Mutch found a land of open skies, howling storms, historic traditions, and an active, growing community of notable individuals ...
… from recycled boat timbers and old wine bottles. It houses a telescope, bee …
In California, water no longer runs to the sea - it runs towards money, writes Will Parrish. Most of the state's water is already controlled by agribusiness elites. Now, backed by politicians, they are planning to grab the little that's left, leaving nature and indigenous communities high and dry.
… out of existence thus underway, the premium wine industry began to reemerge here. Today, …