Monthly Archives: October 2016

Things You learn: red tape every where.

I’ve spent so much time understanding liquour licensing, meat processing, planning schemes, waste water regulation, carbon emissions and the bloody like I hadn’t considered the need for a permit to sell fruit and veg.

Turns out you need a license. If you want to do anything to the fruit and veg its an expensive licence.

Permit (from the […]

By |October 31st, 2016|Uncategorized|

The disposable economy from houses to shoes to greenhouses.

For decades our economy has been driven by consumption. Consumption of increasingly disposable goods. This may be unavoidable for some classes of products but why does every thing from shoes to houses to greenhouses have to be disposable?

This post was inspired by this article in the guardian. I can understand that for many electrical goods it […]

By |October 30th, 2016|Uncategorized|

Local Food isn’t always better.

Its great to see such passion and interest in reforming our food system but these issues are complex. Sometimes obvious common sense solutions are not actually what is best. A good example of this is the belief that local food is always best.

For example in America there is a huge amount of interest in vertical hydroponic […]

By |October 25th, 2016|Uncategorized|