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December 2009

Happy, Healthy & Wintery Holidays to one and all…

By Andrea Maguire / 27 Dec 2009
Snow

I’m back in the UK, up in North Yorkshire for Christmas and New Year.  It’s been snowing here, on & off for about a week…

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Climategate & Other Earth Shattering News!

By Andrea Maguire / 14 Dec 2009
Global Warming

It’s been an exciting few weeks in the world of climate change – both for the science and the politics. We’ve had the thrill and…

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Real Reminder

By Andrea Maguire / 5 Nov 2009
Hands

I got a good reminder yesterday – not everything is what it seems! I saw some new hand-soap which called itself ‘organic’ with a very eco-friendly name.  As…

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Death of a Seeds-man

By Andrea Maguire / 24 Oct 2009
Cornfield

Quite bizarrely, my last blog (Just Blown Away) about soil erosion and declining soil quality due to modern conventional farming methods was published on exactly…

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Just Blown Away!

By Andrea Maguire / 12 Sep 2009
Wind

My original idea with this entry had been to expand from the FSA report comment from my last blog into the benefits of organic farming…

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Report Retort!

By Andrea Maguire / 9 Aug 2009
Files

The FSA (Food Standard Agency) released a report last week, the basis of which was to compare the nutritional benefits of organic food compared to…

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