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Tash [alan lodge] | 14.03.2008 17:15

A group of Nottingham people, making a short film to highlight the issues surrounding food waste and recycling.






















A group of Nottingham people, making a short film to highlight the issues surrounding food waste and recycling.

In front of an invited audience ..... the event was cast in a gameshow style. A cross between Ready Steady Cook and Scrapheap challenge!

People provided their enthusiasm for this thoroughly exciting project. An they help eat the muchies at the end of the gig...... Yum!

I find it particularly galling, that the idea of recycling the contents of a skip, to actually be an offence under Section 60 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 !!

Now I ask you, in all sincerity, WTF?

Silly me, I would have thought that environmental law, should support the idea of recycling. It’s a complete nonsense. In what way does any government think that this offers any kind of commitment to recycling???

Environmental Protection Act 1990
 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1990/Ukpga_19900043_en_1.htm

Sect 60 Interference with waste sites and receptacles for waste
 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1990/ukpga_19900043_en_8#pt2-pb5-l1g60


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Additional Reading.

The £20bn food mountain: Britons throw away half of the food produced each year
20m tons of food is chucked out from homes and supermarkets, enough to meet half of Africa's food import needs. By Susie Mesure. The Independent  http://tinyurl.com/2626my

Britain is throwing away half of all the food produced on farms, according to the starkest estimate yet of the amount of edible produce we waste. About 20m tons of food is thrown out each year: equivalent to half of the food import needs for the whole of Africa. ......

Immoral, or What?

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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email:  tash@indymedia.org
Member of the National Union of Journalists [No: 014345]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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Tash [alan lodge]
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Wow,gud show,Peak oil&finance crisis maybe vvsoon, shops pass on edible food now

15.03.2008 17:03

Peak oil& finance crisis could be vsoon, shops need to pass on edible food now.
Write a formal letter copying the above to your local supermarkets managers at hq, even cooperative demand this & ask for it to be sent to a registered charity or voluntary organisation.
Dont waste your food & go veggie it takes upto 10times less energy to produce

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Dont lose the plot & get an allotment& grow

15.03.2008 17:08

Dont lose the plot & get an allotment& grow your own, nowt better& or use your garden+ put on a green roof. With a decent hand juicer or blender you can even eat grass as long as it hasn't too many chemicals.During world war 2 some people lasted on this better than troops.

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Fruit & nut trees are great

15.03.2008 17:24

to get them from a local supplier try Phil Corbett at cool temperate. Raw,fruitarian food takes less energy to produce+cook & is healthier.
Though if u insist on cooking use a dehydrator which only uses 2 lightbulbs to cook food or speak to people at Sumac who made cookers from veg oil canisters with curved chimney in middle to put wood in like a irish storm kettle which has vermiculite or other unburnable material like some wood barks,kevlar etc maybe.
Even trees unedible tree can give you food like birch, just tap them with a nail into a bucket for syrrup stock which you can boil if u want, make sure tree is a foot in diameter or this may kill it.
Also stop working for bloody unsustainable oil companies or bankers who create most wars & refugee crises
& get onto the nottingham transition website & make a energy descent plan now!

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Iam not taking the piss out of my compost,honest

15.03.2008 18:33

Wee on your compost if your a bloke, it contains phosphorous essential for plant growth. If u need to be discrete do it into a bottle with a tight wide lid, like a dettol bottle or old water bottle, label & pour on compost. Which needs lots of chopped up paper or leaves+ turning every 2 weeks to make it aeroiate.The hotter the faster it bakes so add insulation especially over the lid.
If your really cold & cant afford geothermal etc, half fill a hot water bottle & tie it around your neck, keeps u warm all the time & strengthens your neck. Strong necks are vital in a fight, hopefully peak oil wont come to this. kids then old people will have to be take priority for normal heating.
Hopefully it doesn't get so bad we have to go Ray Mears, get your house sustainable now!
Also stop working for bloody unsustainable oil companies or bankers who create most wars & refugee crises
& get onto the nottingham transition website & make a energy descent plan now!

This info was gleaned via transition gurus Sue,Necki & Brian Davey, resident at ecoworks & Sumac nottingham+. Meet ICC 1st & 3rd thursday of month at International community centre, mansfield rd, where part of notts army of martial artists train. Transition town is unalligned politically though in my opinion becoming a member of international cooperative alliance & green party helps more towards social change & a free society known as libertarian municipalism using consensus, delegation & mandates upto an international level.

e-mail:  info@transitionnottingham.org.uk
- Homepage:  http://www.transitiontowns.org/
Also google permaculture gardening & earthships+ check www.oilempire.us
 http://www.k-clements.fsnet.co.uk/dehydrator.html

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Please don't hit nails into trees, you'll kill it, To tap a tree...

17.03.2008 14:16

To tap a tree:

This can be used for sycamore or birch, and probably field maple.

A Tree should be a least 10 inches in diameter and 4 ½ feet off the ground before tapping. Tap in spring when the sap is rising. Drill a hole the size of your tap (a hollow wooden spile) and 1 ½ inches deep. Knock in your tap hand tight, place bucket underneath.

Then add sap to a pan and boil, as it boils down keep adding more sap, keep the sap above 1 ½inches in the pan. Bottle To tap a tree:

A Tree should be a least 10 inches indiameter and 4 ½ feet off the ground before tapping. Tap inspring when the sap is rising. Drill a hole the size of your tap and1 ½ inches deep. Knock in your tap hand tight, place bucketunderneath.

Then add sap to a pan and boil, as itboils down keep adding more sap, keep the sap above 1 ½inches in the pan. Bottle while hot. This is a Glucose/Fructose/ Sucrose combo.while hot. This is a Glucose/Fructose/ Sucrose combo.

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Cheers queen,Ive heard of people using nails

19.03.2008 08:09

In spring of course,sorry.
Ive never seen a nail kill a mature tree, yet I hear brass can sometimes, in fact Ive seen trees grown through railings.
A small tap sounds like a great idea, you can turn it off & stop the bleed, can you just turn it on again the next year?
I just cut some more ivy off a tree almost at the crown, good siteworkers & hedgelayers always take ivy off when its near crown to save the tree. Ive cut ivy off at STAA& allover nottingham all year round for many years as ivy really does kill & weaken trees+ adds to what aborculturalists call the fringe effect.
If you cut away afew feet at base it saves the tree & ivy doesnt die straight for ages, plus the dead ivy provides nest material etc.Ivy on ground also can kill everything!though its not always bad.

Only takes afew moments, though becareful about carrying a pruning saw around near nervous coppers on demo's or when travelling abroad even in luggage.They get the wrong idea.A wire saw, like a cheese wire cutter available at good outdoor stores & ebay can work well& easier to carry.
PLant trees not bombs

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