Building DIY Gardening

Today had fun planting 12 sakura cherry blossom at Miami Green Condos Penang Malaysia for Earth Day. This is the ‘watering ceremony’. The gardeners got there first and put them in, which was not the plan, but keeps people employed. These are around the main entrance with the waterfalls, and a few other places. See […]

Eco Workshops are to help self builders, DIY people and renovators understand the green issues affecting them and their projects. Dave Hilton an eco expert is giving a talk, along with many others. This is at Buildstore exhibition centre at Swindon off M4 junction 16 >. For a ticket see here > See also our […]

Penang is a UNESCO world heritage city but has an over supply of high rise condos while many old buildings are left to rot, or even worse, turned into swift houses (or swifthouses) (where swifts are factory farmed for bird nest soup ingredients – the nest – in old buildings that no one can afford […]

Manhattan’s High Line is an old railway track that has been out of use since 1980, now greened over with a long park and path. Friends of Manhattan’s High Line > It was used as a freight line, so it is emblematic of the way modern cities are converting urban architecture, like the Tate Modern […]

Go see Spider babies running around video > Just saw these on the shed – very cute. They are all hugging together in a ball, about 2 cm, each spider is about 1.5 mm, if you disturb them at all, they all run off, ie the ball expands and the spiders descend downwards. Then they […]