Like a lot of people lately I've been thinking about what I can do reduce my footprint and try to avert some of the scarier prophesies of Al Gore et al, so that maybe my daughter has a planet to live on when she's 21.

I won't go in to all of that stuff here, because, lets face it, we've all heard it, and it's really not fun to think about; instead I'm just going to focus on what I can do.

This blog is intended to chart the process of designing an approach to making my neighbourhood ecologically sustainable. I don't know how yet, and I'm not even sure it can be done - theoretically or practically. But stay along for the ride!

I guess the point of writing this blog is to publish what I learn and design for others to share and to possibly apply to their own projects &/or neighbourhoods. But it is also a way of beginning a dialogue; a conversation which I hope includes advice, criticism, argument and feedback.

Most of the links on this blog will open in a new tab in Firefox, and in a new window in Safari (annoyingly). I have no idea what happens in explorer or any other browser.

In Firefox and Safari it will only open one extra tab/window - each time you click on a link, it will open over the top of the last link you selected (so you won't end up with heaps of windows open). I've set it up this way because it's the way I like to browse...but let me know if you don't like it.