I do not know how many readers of this blog will actually have known, or known of, my great friend the environmentalist David Fleming, who died very suddenly in November 2010. We mourned him greatly and mourned even more the fact that Lean Logic, the massive work which had …
Environmental Issues
Mobile phone masts banned!
But not in the UK..... In the Punjab! So if they can take a risk aware approach in Chandigarh, why not in Bromley – or Bradford – or even Battersea?.... I was sent this cutting (which dates from February) this morning by the Resource Centre for Development Alternatives in …
Selling breast milk – should you or shouldn’t you?
A fascinating article in the New York Times ten days ago, pointed out to me by John Scott. Andrew Pollack investigates a rapidly growing industry turning excess breast milk into a high protein product to be fed to extremely premature babies, with the possibility of its uses …
Remembering Clarissa
Yesterday I went to a delightful memorial service for Clarissa Dickson Wright who died just over a year ago. I am sure that many of you will remember her from her Two Fat Ladies cookery programmes – but she was so much more than just a rather splendid fat cook!! Amongst other …
Good news for electro-sensitives – well, French ones anyway…
Very good news for French electrosensitives! Last month a new law came into force which not only made great strides in protecting young children from wifi radiation but has introduced some serious monitoring of radiation exposure in public places. Not only has it given powers to …