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	<title>Martin's Rants</title>
	<link>http://www.ecraftsmen.co.uk/blog</link>
	<description>Trying to let the grass grow under my feet.</description>
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		<title>Food and Cities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An excellent video from the TED series.



Related posts:Food for thoughtSoon, you may have a choice &#8211; eat food OR drive a carFood crisis will take hold before climate change, warns chief scientist


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://www.ecraftsmen.co.uk/blog/2006/09/01/food-for-thought/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Food for thought'>Food for thought</a></li><li><a href='http://www.ecraftsmen.co.uk/blog/2007/10/31/soon-you-may-have-a-choice-eat-food-or-drive-a-car/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Soon, you may have a choice &#8211; eat food OR drive a car'>Soon, you may have a choice &#8211; eat food OR drive a car</a></li><li><a href='http://www.ecraftsmen.co.uk/blog/2008/03/07/food-crisis-will-take-hold-before-climate-change-warns-chief-scientist/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Food crisis will take hold before climate change, warns chief scientist'>Food crisis will take hold before climate change, warns chief scientist</a></li></ol>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecraftsmen.co.uk/blog/2009/10/08/food-and-cities/</link>
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		<title>The bold plan for electric cars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So how would you run a whole country without oil?
The bold plan for electric cars&#8230; is coming to country near you soon (or should that be not soon enough).
Fascinating, enlightening and though-provoking speech made at a TED conference by Shai Agassi about electric cars. He took apart the usual issues (physical and monetary) and developed [...]


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		<link>http://www.ecraftsmen.co.uk/blog/2009/07/28/the-bold-plan-for-electric-cars/</link>
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		<title>Life&#8217;s twists and turns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago, my mum-in-law was diagnosed with cancer. She&#8217;d had breast cancer 4.5 years ago and had been fine since then, but a persistent pain in her back gave her doctor cause for concern and she had a blood test and eventually a scan. She has some breast cancer cells in her [...]


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		<link>http://www.ecraftsmen.co.uk/blog/2009/07/24/lifes-twists-and-turns/</link>
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		<title>Thoreau on conformity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An extract from &#8216;Walden &#8211; a life in the woods&#8216; by Henry David Thoreau:
&#8220;If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.&#8221; By doing these things, men may find happiness and [...]


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		<link>http://www.ecraftsmen.co.uk/blog/2009/07/23/thoreau-on-conformity/</link>
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		<title>The &#8216;Natural&#8217; Tiny House Top 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The wonderful people at &#8216;Natural Homes&#8217; blog (naturalhomes.org), have compiled their &#8216;Natural&#8217; Tiny House Top 10, featured some of the nicest, cutest and most environmentally friendly little houses around. Enjoy&#8230;
No. 1 Glass bottles, collected from a dump, were included in the cob walls of this tiny house in Romania. The large south facing window was [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://www.ecraftsmen.co.uk/blog/2005/10/01/cob-cottage-at-cae-mabon/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Cob Cottage at Cae Mabon'>Cob Cottage at Cae Mabon</a></li></ol>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecraftsmen.co.uk/blog/2009/05/14/the-natural-tiny-house-top-10/</link>
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		<title>Wooden Bowls and the Heritage Crafts Association</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been interested in &#8216;hand-made&#8217; products for ages, especially wooden stuff. A couple of years ago, I got a pair of wooden plates made by a chap called Tony Wrench (who infamously lives in a hand-built roundhouse in Wales and has been the subject of a lengthy planning battle &#8211; but he won! http://www.thatroundhouse.info).
The plates [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://www.ecraftsmen.co.uk/blog/2009/02/09/where-does-the-wood-come-from/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Where does the wood for wood burning stoves come from?'>Where does the wood for wood burning stoves come from?</a></li></ol>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecraftsmen.co.uk/blog/2009/04/09/heritage-crafts-association/</link>
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		<title>Vegans, Iraq &amp; Human Sheilds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Way back in February 2007, I attended a meeting of Birmingham Vegetarians and Vegans. The guest speaker was a lady called Helen Asea, who, in 2004 had travelled to Iraq to become a &#8216;human shield&#8217;. 
Thinking that this could be an interesting talk, I recorded it on my second-hand (ebay bargain) minidisc recorder and have finally [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://www.ecraftsmen.co.uk/blog/2006/06/30/what-does-it-mean-to-be-vegan/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: What does it mean to be Vegan?'>What does it mean to be Vegan?</a></li></ol>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecraftsmen.co.uk/blog/2009/02/19/vegans-iraq-human-sheilds/</link>
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		<title>Where does the wood for wood burning stoves come from?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is something very special about wood-burning stoves &#8211; mention them in conversation and people tend to &#8216;ohh&#8217; and &#8216;ahh&#8217; as they dream up romantic images of cuddling up by their warmth and glow on a cold, dark wintery night.
I know someone who distributes wood-burning stoves here in the UK. Over the past six months, [...]


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		<link>http://www.ecraftsmen.co.uk/blog/2009/02/09/where-does-the-wood-come-from/</link>
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		<title>Rethinking Economics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most adults in the UK, and I guess the &#8216;developed&#8217; world are aware of the economic recession that is in progress, along with some of the unprecedented actions that governments are taking to ease us out of this situation (but hopefully not back into the one that created the problem in the first place).
David Korten, [...]


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		<link>http://www.ecraftsmen.co.uk/blog/2008/11/26/rethinking-economics/</link>
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		<title>Foraging for Wild Edible Plants &#8211; Print Your Own Pocket Handbook</title>
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If you&#8217;re anything like me, do you walk through the lanes, pathways and woods and see the lush green growth that nature has provided, and wonder what plants you can eat or might be useful in some other way? The answer comes in the form of this handy and inexpensive downloadable guide that you can [...]


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		<link>http://www.ecraftsmen.co.uk/blog/2008/08/07/foraging-for-wild-edible-plants/</link>
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