thegreenmoleforum For a sustainable Mole Valley
‘Everyday Organic’ is the theme for this year’s Soil Association ‘Organic Fortnight’ held this month, encouraging people to try something organic daily.
Reasons to choose organic – controversial additives (eg. aspartame, tartrazine, MSG), pesticide use and genetic modification are banned, better animal welfare with a free- range lifestyle, and plant, insect and bird life is up to 50% greater on organic farms.
If you intend to grow organically, you might like to seek advice from the Surrey Organic Gardening Group (SOGG), a collection of people who enjoy many aspects of gardens and gardening. They hold regular monthly meetings, often with guest speakers, and arrange group visits to public gardens and other places of interest.
The One Pot Pledge® aims to
get 30,000 people who’ve never grown anything before giving it a go. One pot on a window ledge is all you need to get started. Do sign up!
Talking of biodiversity, Transition Bookham is continuing its work on St Nicolas Pastoral Centre’s garden, with a ‘bug hotel’ being the latest addition! Do help out if you can. As well as their open meeting, last month, they held their first social at the Windsor.
If you’re intending to buy a new registration car, it might be worth holding off... the US military is forecasting oil shortages in a few years time!
You could always wait for an air powered car – Tata Motors of India is launching one soon, there’s the human power HumanCar® due 2011 or, if you’re keen, you can modify your existing one to run on water, following instructions to be found on the internet!
Thinking of running a vehicle on biofuels? An EU report reveals that crops grown for fuel produce more CO2
pollution than fossil
fuels. Increased demand for soy, sugar cane and beat, palm oil and rapeseed leads to imports of other food crops and more land use, often through deforestation.
Of course there are other ways to get around and European Mobility Week aims to encourage these, culminating in International Car Free Day, Wednesday 22 .
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If you’re bored of regular radio stations, why not try listening to ‘PASSION for the PLANET’ on DAB, a PC or WI-FI. Wimbledon based, they play a wide range of music interspersed with insightful interviews and features on health and the environment.
The Green Mole Forum team
www.greenmoleforum.org see Look Local at left for links and Contact at top Local events for September 2010 see Events at left on website Fridays 10:15-11:30 Bookham Country Market – The Old Barn Hall, Bookham 3rd
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Soil Association’s Organic Fortnight – Events throughout the UK -22nd
19:30-21:00 Transition Bookham biodiversity garden project – St Nicolas, Bookham 19:30-21:30 Transition Bookham open meeting – St Nicolas Pastoral Centre, Bookham European Mobility Week – including International Car Free Day on the 22nd 11:30 LETS trading morning – Dorking
info@lets-mole-valley.org.uk
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