2010/12/11 19:14
Danish media are reporting that stocks of road salt are running low:"Britain is the big culprit. They use too much [salt]", says Per Nygaard.He justifies this with the country's road network, where A roads are narrow and bad. This means that in his view, all it takes is just a little bit of snow on the roadside before they begin...
2009/06/18 14:01
Am I the only one who loves the taste of pineapples and mangos but finds them a pain?Pineapples are far too complicated to get into, and mangos have this horrible big stone in the middle.All fruit should either be very easy to peel, like bananas, or have edible skin, like apples, and they shouldn't contain any stones or seeds.Why are...
2011/09/14 10:50
EUobserver has published an essential article today about the necessity of eating insects to save the planet.
It quotes a Dutch academic who believes that ‘insects are the sustainable, healthy and environment friendly foods of the future. “There are so many benefits to the eating of insects compared to conventional livestock, and, nutritionally, insects are exactly the same as conventional meat.”’
It appears that there are now several insect farmers in the Netherlands, concentrating on three species: ‘There are about 1,800 edible insects in the world. But for “scaling up” it has to be possible to raise the insects easily, which leaves mealworms – the larvae of darkling beetles – crickets and locusts.’
Insect products might soon be coming to a supermarket near you, given that there is a ‘team of four PhD students with €1 million for research focussed on extracting protein from insects. This is something of a holy grail […] as it would give all of the goodness of insect protein without the off-putting exoskeleton visuals.’
In case you’re getting hungry from reading this, the article even provides a recipe: ‘the novice insect-eater should start off with insects in a wok with rice and soya sauce, with garlic, pepper and salt: “This is really good.”’
Bon appétit!
2010/10/29 14:58
East Renfrewshire have now decided that we need to put food waste into a separate bin.This means that we need to fit six bins into our kitchen:Compostable waste (fruit, veg and egg shells)Other food wasteMetal and glassPaper and cardboardHard plasticEverything else(I'm excluding from this list batteries, medicines, electrical equipment and other items that shouldn't be thrown into the normal bins at all, but which still need to be collected somewhere in the house until we find the time to go...
2010/08/11 15:05
During our stay in Devon, we went on a daytrip to the Eden Project near St. Austell in Cornwall.It's supposed to be one of the UK's main tourist attractions, and most visitors did look very happy.I thought it was an eery place, however.Basically, it's supposed to be "a living theatre of plants", and its "mission is to tell the world...
2009/03/13 23:13
A scientist called Ning Zeng is proposing to bury trees (in Danish, scientific article in English here) to remove carbon from the atmosphere.In many ways it's a fairly obvious idea, given that coal and oil are the result on plants...
2009/03/04 23:37
There is an alarmist article by Gaia Vince in the latest issue of New Scientist, called "Surviving in a warmer world".Its basic message is that a global rise in temperatures of just 4 degrees would lead to most current subtropical...
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