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I’ve never been without a bike until recently. As far back into my childhood as I can remember, I always had one. A bike was always part of my life, part of me. Neither my town nor my family had much money, and by the age of eight, my friends and I (or ‘me and my mates’ as we would have said) all had bikes that were made up of bits of other b ....
I’m too busy to have a vegetable garden. I don’t have the mental energy to think about when it’s time to buy seeds, to plant them, water them, prick them out into pots, dig the garden, plant them, and then continue to water them, weed them and harvest them.
Don’t get me wrong – I’m not saying that these are unpleasant activities. ....
The Phone Co-op is the UK’s only co-operative telecoms provider. 100% member-owned, they have a democratic internal structure and no external shareholders. You can just become a customer, or you can become a member too, and have a say in the way the co-op is run.
Click here and here for more information about the Phone Co-op.
We have our br ....
This is the last in a series of articles to help you to jettison Windows and corporate software generally. The other articles are:
How to switch to free / open source software
How do download Linux onto a datastick to use it alongside Windows
Learning to use Linux
Installing Linux on your hard drive
Plus there might be one more – ....
This is the latest in a series of articles intended to help you become Windows- and corporate-software-free. So far I’ve switched to free / open source software on Windows, then I’ve downloaded the Linux operating system onto a datastick, then I’ve familiarised myself with Linux on the datastick, and now that I’m happy with Linux, I’m ins ....
Remember the previous two blog articles about switching to open source / free software? The first was about switching to free / open source programmes whilst still using Windows, and the second was about downloading the Linux operating system onto a datastick so that you can play with it and familiarise yourself with it, but keep Windows in the mea ....
A while ago I blogged about the various open source programmes I'm using. I'm absolutely non-techie when it comes to IT. I have no interest in the technical underpinning of what I want to do with my computer, and this makes it difficult for technical people to explain things to me. It's baby language or nothing. However, I'm guessing that most peop ....
You may remember that we blogged an interview last summer with Guy Dorrell, who set up a 'fishbox', or 'community-supported fish' project, called 'Faircatch'. After interviewing him, my partner and I signed up to his scheme to try it out. I'm now reporting on how the idea worked for us, what meals we cooked, how it worked out price-wise, and what t ....
We've wanted a living willow 'fedge' for a while. We have a firepit and a couple of compost 'daleks' at the end of the garden, and we wanted to cordon this area off, and hide the compost bins. A fedge is a cross between a fence and a hedge, and it's alive. See here for more on living willow structures.
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I've found that learning about how to change to open source software can be difficult for non-techies. Yes, you can easily find the websites that contain the information you need, but it's almost never written in a style that non-techies can understand. A lot of knowledge is assumed, and often, non-techies give up and have to wait until a techie fr ....
My partner's mother lives in Hounslow, under the Heathrow flight path and next to a dual carriageway. But she has filled her front and back garden with flowers, trees, bushes and vegetables. When she visits, she often brings pears, plums, spinach, tomatoes or flowers from her garden. But when we visit her, and take a walk around Hounslow, it's a bi ....
We had solar panels installed on our flat roof on a London terraced home one year ago. The panels are attached to plastic tubs filled with ballast. During the daytime, we use the electricity as it's generated, so we make sure we use the washing machine / charge phones / anything else we can think of during the day - plus it powers the fridge and a ....
I Iive with my partner in a terraced house in London, and we have a garden. So we have to work out what we want the garden for. Do we want to use it to impress people, to give it a 'make-over', to make it orderly and tidy, or to produce food? We've decided that mostly, we want to use it to let nature have a place in the city. We've put in a couple ....
I lived at Redfield Community for 13 years - it's where Lowimpact.org was born - but now I live in London, and so I'm assessing my options for living as low-impact a life as I can. The idea for Lowimpact grew out of the things that were happening at Redfield. Redfield is a registered housing co-op of usually around 15 adults and a smattering of kid ....
Perhaps these days most commonly associated with the garden, there’s more to the humble wheelbarrow than you might think. Sophie Paterson explores its potential, past and present, as a low-impact form of transportation.
The traditional European wheelbarrow pictured above has been the faithful friend of gardeners, farmers, builders, miners, mar ....
"Man is the only creature that seems to have the time and energy to pump all his sewage out to sea, and then go swimming in it." - Miles Kington
What is low-impact sewage treatment?
It’s any kind of treatment of sewage that attempts to minimise pollution and the use of water, energy and synthetic chemicals, and to turn our waste into something ....
I am Andy Reynolds, a long-term practitioner of low-impact living, smallholder, author, forester, teacher, carpenter, builder. I've been working with Lowimpact.org since the early noughties, and I'd like to share my philosophy on self-reliance with you.
I've had a keen interest in self-reliance from an early age, realising that given a large eno ....
So after much effort edition three is now published. Renewable energy technology is changing quickly and so a couple of years ago I contacted Dave Darby with a view to updating edition two. As it turned out it was much more than an update (you know what its like when you get your teeth into a project). It's also full colour. You can buy the third ....
I think we all have stories about mad conversations we've had about Brexit since the referendum (or is it just me?). I was called a racist, for example, for suggesting that the UK is nowhere near the top of the league of 'most xenophobic countries', and I've been amazed by the vitriol this has stirred up on both sides.
However, I think that repo ....
Goodbye old website (left), hello new website (right) - and with the new website comes a new name. Since we started in 2001, we've always had a bit of a problem with our name. The long-hand version was too much of a mouthful, and many people didn't seem to notice that LILI was an acronym for Low-impact Living Initiative, and so we were sometimes ....
