ICE CAPS AND GARDENS

It's no surprise if you missed the minimal reports in the mainstream news of this massive iceberg, three times the size of London, splitting from the Larsen C shelf in Antarctica. It gives me the heebie-geebies though, as the Larsen C shelf may be acting as a dam, holding back much more ice...

Roll on to July 2017, and the A68 iceberg, 12% of the Larsen C shelf, is on the move. Easy to feel powerless against a trillion tonnes of ice but in fact our individual attitudes and actions ripple out and change the whole world.

It was reports of vanishing ice back in 2006 that made me get off my backside and start exploring the eco world.
"SO WHAT'S A SUSTAINABLE WAY OF LIFE LIKE?"
Looking for answers to that question set me off on a journey to Portugal and around the UK,
visiting people and projects, living and helping on small farms, small holdings, co-ops, on community projects and all sorts of gardens, helping to develop and run permaculture courses, and trying to integrate my therapist's insights into why people do or don't get along into the process. It's been a fascinating, inspiring journey and lots of fun too. I've been writing about it all on my blogs: ians eco blog and ianwatt.blogspot.co.uk. Really we know a lot of the answers, in pattern if not in detail. Some of it is easy to do and right under your feet. We can do a lot to make the inevitable transition to a low-impact way of life easier for ourselves, one of the most important places where we can do that being our gardens.
NEXT POST: SO WHAT CAN I DO? GARDEN!

Our caravan and garden at Treflach Farm