Just a short note on an interesting e-mail I’ve received today on the ecosanres Yahoo!Group on ecological sanitation: The (dutch NGO) WASTE “on behalf of the Programme Board of the INTEGRATED SUPPORT FOR A SUSTAINABLE URBAN ENVIRONMENT (ISSUE) programme” puts out an open tender for Knowledge Centres with tasks related to sanitation and waste mangement.
This [...]

What you see here is my more or less successful attempt at making Daifuku-Mochi – “a Japanese confection consisting of a small round mochi (glutinous rice cake) stuffed with sweet filling, most commonly anko, sweetened red bean paste made from azuki beans.”

You know I’d found Mochi from Taiwan on sale at an Asia Shop in [...]

There are those maps out there which are based on statistical data – assumed, accumulated and unproven figures that may indicate a certain trend and/or just show what the situation has been when the data was collected.
When we look at today’s map of Firefox 3 downloads worldwide in just 24 hours (for a world record):

…I [...]

…on why waste = food.

“The goal is very simple and technical. And the goal is a very delightfully, safe, healthy and just world with clean air, soil, water and power, economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed.”
Enjoy! :-)
(disclaimer: a) just found this while searching for the Silent Spring link on my previous post, b) Braungart [...]

I’ve (eventually) just watched “The Inconvenient Truth” for the first time and learned that:
Apple MacBooks (Pro) seem to be great.
Seriously, what’s so special about this documentary?
[The film's director] Guggenheim, who was skeptical at first, later saw the presentation for himself, stating that he was “blown away,” and “left after an hour and a half thinking [...]

What’s this?

How do I explain this?
Those tables full of bananas should be interesting enough for a blog post (at least to me), but maybe I should start with my own little story:
Last year in March upon returning from Kenya, I realized I should cough up some mbeca and invest them into a good pair of running [...]

So today is World Environment Day and I had actually planed not to cover this special day as I am dealing with environmental issues almost every day and would actually have to blog on it every day then. Just similar to what World Water Day means to me (not much as a *special occasion* from [...]