| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| Treacodactyl |
Article sectionsAfter some planned merges I thought it would be best to try and sort out all the headings in one go. After a couple of days someone will try and come up with a poll and we can have a vote on which ones people like best.So we could start with: 1) Reduce, Re-use, Recycle 2) Eat, drink and be merry. Including cooking, home brewing and curing & smoking 3) Wild Food 4) Poultry and Livestock 5) Growing your own and land management 6) Sustainable Building, Energy & Transport 7) Downsizer Life (could also be called "Self reliance" or "Do Your Own") It includes IT, home education, starting out etc. Does nyone think we need sub-categories? For example Eat, drink and be merry: Reviews and Opinions |
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| jema |
it's tough if people do want sub-categories! Mambo will be supporting this in future versions, but does not do so now! | ||||||||
| Treacodactyl |
Or in other words the decision is much easier to make. 
Is seven headings workable? |
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| jema |
We have 13 at the moment. I think we would be crazy not to ditch 3 and preferably need to ditch more than this to get the cosmetics of the site workable. From this point of view I'd seriously want no more than 8 headings. It has to be a balance between looks and logic. At the moment I think we are weak on both counts! |
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| tahir |
8 sounds about right to me | ||||||||
| Mrs Fiddlesticks |
i still quite like the 'does it matter' one - whether thats the right title for serious debate area I don't know, but we need somewhere that is available for that sort of ethical discussion that wouldn't fit anywhere else.
Don't like the idea of sub-catergories, the titles should be succinct enough to do the job. |
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| jema |
Ah, I think you are thinking about the forums. This is not about the forum, it is about sorting the main site sections and categories. | ||||||||
| nettie |
I like it
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| Treacodactyl |
We don't want that sort of reply round here young lady, we want several pages of arguing. 
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| Treacodactyl |
Anyone else have any comments? | ||||||||
| dougal |
Please don't think you can rely on me for this... 
1/ The Main Menu question. On the Home page, in the bottom left hand corner, there lurks a "Main Menu". IMHO, the "6 Leaves" should render this entirely unnecessary. However, there are things that cannot be accessed via the 6 Leaves. Specifically, these are the *Articles* under "News and Comment", the "Web Links" database (which seems broken or empty at the moment), and the "Gallery", and the Tell a Friend email form.. If these things can be found new homes within the 6 Leaves, then firstly the poor little Main Menu can be abolished, AND those things would be much more accessible. I think it would be rational to put the "Comment" articles under whatever Article heading suits best - eg the "Meat" book review with cooking articles. Any "News about Downsizer" surely logically belongs with the "About Us" Leaf. IMHO the Tell-a-Friend might go there too. (Is it used much?) And the Gallery, if its to be piccies of Downsizers downsizing, deserves to be "About Us" too. IMHO Glossary could easily become "Glossary and Links". I feel that this should be done as a priority ahead of, or at least together with any article-category reorganisation - because the new categories would have to encompass the "Comment" articles too. 2/ Sub-categories Given that there's a technical bar to this at the moment, it must be borne in mind when bringing categories together that there is a risk of making some categories very big in relation to others. For example a "Make your own" category would be oversized...! Ideally, the categories should be balanced for size, so that sub-categorisation could be postponed as long as possible. 3/ The Categories and their Names Currently, there's no natural home for "Crafts" (other than food ones) - currently that would be classed in "Starting Out". I like the idea of grouping the "doing it for yourself" stuff together. Starting Out, Home Ed, IT, *and* anything about Charities, Volunteering, etc from "News and Comment". I still think something like "Doing your own" is the right sort of title - potentially covering *any* misc craft or skill, as well as community action, etc. Merging Cooking, Brewing and Curing/Smoking seems like a reasonable move - although this and Wild Food look like being the drivers for sub-categorisation! I'd offer the overall title "Foodcraft" which I dislike slightly less than Eat, Drink and be Merry! 4/ Category Ordering It would be possible to create a bit more order by the "flow" of the categories, an example: Wild Food The Land and Growing your own Poultry and Livestock Foodcraft Doing your own... Sustainable Building, Energy and Transport Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Has a "flow" from foraging, through cultivation, animal keeping, into food, civilisation and recycling. I'm sure other "flows" would be possible... but having some clear logic to the order is worthwhile and costs nothing. 5/ Category Number Seven is an *odd* number, and thereby works against *ever* presenting the list in two columns! I wonder if there's any sense in making an eighth category, for the more philosophical stuff, about lifestyle, emigrating, volunteering... But I certainly don't know what it might be called. "Philosophies" seems a bit high falutin'... |
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| cab |
Re: Article sections
I don't like that. I would generally think that hobebrewing and curing/smoking should be in a seperate section to cooking; there's a divide between preserving (including brewing) and cooking, I think.
Pondering this one... Why Poultry AND livestock? Don't poultry count? That said, I like the mention of poultry in there, the chicken articles are popular. Edit: Wild food could fit in with the cooking section, but in content it's very different to that.
Not bad, but we have to check to make sure the articles all fit.
A better title including crafts in it is needed I think. Seven seems like an unusual number to me too. I'd favour 8, the eigth being either seperate food and preserving/brewing sections or a craft one distinct from self reliance. |
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| Treacodactyl |
I deliberately left it at seven so we could add another (honestly). Having a separate food and preserving/brewing seems favourite and would balance the number of existing articles quite well.
Ordering does need to be looked at once the list is agreed and the names do need a little work. "Why Poultry AND livestock? Don't poultry count? That said, I like the mention of poultry in there, the chicken articles are popular." I've often thought the same but people seem to like it like that and it does seem to work. One comment I have is where do conservation and nature articles go? At the moment "Principles of Designing Gardens for Wildlife" is in Sustainable Building/Energy Efficiency but this can go in "Growing your own and land management " |
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| jema |
Have we got any conclusions yet?
I was hoping last week that with a few clear cut yes/no decisions I would have been given the mandate to get us on the road to reorganising things, but that seemed to get derailed into a lets rearrange it all at once session 
Since the old article addresses will work regardless, I would still prefer to see some movement in the right direction, rather than things being stuck in committee. I reckon that if we did make a few of the moves that were generally agreed on, we would get further in being able to decide the rest quickly. |
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| tahir |
I'd be happy with TD's list (in some shape or form) with the addition of a catch all category for reviews, rants and raves. | ||||||||
| Bugs |
I've been thinking (it's OK, I'm sitting down and I have hot coffee on hand) and I like Dougal's suggestion that reviews etc should go under their appropriate category, as for example I might like cooking so I might read about Jema's samosas and think oooh I'd like an Indian cookery book, gosh, look, there's that chaps opinion on the latest Madhur Jaffrey and so forth.
So - given the forthcoming supermarkety thing - perhaps the suggestion of a final "concepts" or opinion etc category would be good. |
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| jema |
I didn't want to get embroiled here. But here goes, I am against the idea of reviews going in their related sections.
This is for the very simple reason that there is a Mambo "related items" module. I have been considering this one for awhile, and had been having a lot of concerns about server load with it. But with our own server and the mambo caching system and a bit of work, I think it would enable us to have a list of items thumbnail besides and linked within artcles taking people where they should go next 
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| Northern_Lad |
Silly man - you'll only be creating work for yourself.
Told you. Next week will do.
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| jema |
Here is the link:
http://tomh.gdi.cz/mambo/rib_documentation.htm It does look very complex, another reason why I was not yet pushing it until we had got other things sorted. |
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| Treacodactyl |
So would they still have their own section? If so then that's the 8th and all we need to do is amend the names of the list I put up. Anyone wish to have a go at them? |
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| ken69 |
articlesFor what it's worth, I think this site is brilliant, and ranks with Martin Lewis's ..Moneysavingexpert.com..as a must read. Still discovering new sections here.Like an Alladins Cave. |
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| jema |
Actually I think I have reconsidered anyway 
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| dougal |
My glance at the link to the x-ref docs indicated that it is an *entirely* manual cross-ref system. It works on special *tags* entered into the article. All that this module seems to do is to display stuff about the tagged article. Each and every cross reference tag must be inserted by hand. Enter a new article, and *someone* must find every old article that the new one refers to. AND add the new one to every old article that should link to the new one. The work increases exponentially as the number of articles increases. Nice facility, undoubtedly. But lots of work, and ever more in future. AND its something that could be useful WHETHER OR NOT reviews are folded into their article sections. Summarising that lot: nice, an expanding commitment, shouldn't need to impact categorisation. I may be going "back an extra step", but I remain convinced that *all* articles (whether review, rant, practical tutorial or theoretical educational) really should be grouped *together* under "Articles". As to whether "Opinions & Rants" should be a distinct category of article, IMHO, that's of lesser import. (But I'd still put 'em in their category - if there is a relevant one - but an "other stuff" category would round things out to the eight...) |
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| jema |
I think the cross reference is a little less manual than you suggest. But I really need to take it for a test drive to be sure. | ||||||||
| dougal |
It *all* depends on how well you choose the keywords. And review them in the light of other articles. I was misled by the summary: "This bot/module search for related items of actually showed item in others part of your Mambo site e.g. content items or weblinks. What means that two item has relation between each other see this part. You choose where - at the end of content item, inside text or both. Inside text use {mos_ri} or {mos_ri:[ID]} tags." Perhaps you might ask Amiphist to rewrite the documentation!
(And I know that both my czech and slovak are entirely non-existant. The effort is praiseworthy, but its hardly clear.) |
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| jema |
So does anyone want to post a definitive guide to the changes that need making? | ||||||||
| Treacodactyl |
Well this is my stab at the titles and ordering. May I suggest if anyone disagrees then copy the list and make your changes?
1) Growing Your Own I think this can include land management without having it in the title. Producing your own timber is still 'growing your own' 2) Wild Food 3) Poultry and Livestock 4) Cooking 5) Home Brewing & Preserving 6) Reduce, Re-use, Recycle 7) Sustainable Building, Energy & Transport - What about "Sustainable Living"? 8] The Crafty Downsizer (could also be called "Self reliance" or "Do Your Own") It includes IT, home education, starting out, crafts etc. Personally I think Cooking and home brewing & preserving could go in the same section as there's no obvious split, for example a salsa could go in cooking but a pickle in preserving? Anyway, I'm happy with that and I think it gives a reasonable spread. If we don't get this sorted soon jema may be force to hoover the server room and we all know what that means. 
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| jema |
I am getting really desperate to get this sorted, and unless someone kicks up sharpish, the list as TD has given will be done. I think sorting this was getting overdue two months back! | ||||||||
| barefoot_boo |
May as well chuck in my tuppence worth. If it were up to me, I'd be inclined to take a 'less is more' approach and cut back to just 4 umbrella categories (with a view to creating the appropriate sub-categories when the functionality becomes available):
1) Downsizer Life - to encompass Starting Out, Reduce, Reuse & Recycle, Energy Efficiency, Crafts, Home Education, IT, general tips and tricks 2) Green Fingers - to encompass Growing Your Own, Land Management and Landscaping (all plant stuff!). 3) Feathers, Fish and Fur - to encompass Poultry, Livestock, Bee-Keeping, Fishing etc (non-plant living things!) 4) Culinary Creations - to encompass Wild Food, Cookery, Curing & Smoking, Home Brewing (basically anything you stick in your mouth!) |
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| Treacodactyl |
Good titles boo, but I think we have agreed on having 8 sections to balance the front page (I think that's all we've agreed on ).
What do you think of the list I put up? What does anyone else think? Going once..... |
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| tahir |
My feeling is that the reviews should be one of the main Articles categories, where that leaves your list I dunno cos I'm going home now, seeya. | ||||||||
| Treacodactyl |
Well, then we could put reviews at number 8 and merge the cooking and preserving. What do others think? |
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| Jonnyboy |
Merge the cooking and preserving into 'Kitchen Crafts'??? | ||||||||
| tahir |
Agree with that, and JBs suggestion of "Kitchen Crafts" |
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| Treacodactyl |
1) Growing Your Own
2) Wild Food 3) Poultry and Livestock 4) Kitchen Carfts *or* Culinary Creations 5) Reduce, Re-use, Recycle 6) Sustainable Building, Energy & Transport *or* Sustainable Living 7) The Crafty Downsizer (could also be called "Self reliance" or "Do Your Own") It includes IT, home education, starting out, crafts etc. 8] Reviews Cab, do you have any comments about merging the food and home brewing? |
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| tahir |
I've changed the titles to what I think works best, bit worried that 5,6 and 7 are too close, they need to be titled differently to make sense. |
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| dougal |
Sorry to bang the same drum, but the first thing is to find a new home for the stuff on the "Main Menu" under "News and Comment".
What are they? (Aah, so you haven't seen them?) The Herring Article (to Wild Food, like the Mackerel one, or Kitchen Crafts? or where?) Article on food wastage (to Sustainable Living? or where?) Moorland Mousie Trust - pony charity (to Poultry, Livestock & other animals?) or Do your own {charitable bit}? ) And *5* book reviews... Biodiesel review (IMHO to Sustainable Living) and 4 food books (easy, to a combined food section - only tricky thing would be deciding if "Meat" went into the current cooking or preserving section.) Given that I'd like to see the "Main Menu" stripped back, the problem, IMHO, is not so much the importance of keeping Reviews separate, but of whether there needs to be an "Opinions" category (for food wastage, charity pieces, personal rants, etc) and then whether Book Reviews deserve to be in with opinions (to balance the numbers in each category) or in their logical place, depending on their subject matter. |
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| dougal |
So here's my list
1) Wild Food 2) Growing Your Own 3) Poultry and Livestock ("Keeping your own..." ??) 4) Cooking, Baking, Brewing & Preserving 5) Doing your own (includes IT, home education, starting out, crafts etc.) 6) Reduce, Re-use, Recycle 7) Sustainables & Renewables (Energy, Transport, Building) 8] Opinions (& Rants) with reviews wherever they are most appropriate. And I'll try and make that my last word on the subject! (I'll try, really!) |
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| tahir |
I thought we'd sorted that, they're all going to go in Rants & Reviews (aren't they?) |
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| tahir |
I agree with the logic there but I'm not sure on the headings. |
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| dougal |
I still can't see the point in putting the review of the preserving book anywhere other than with the preserving articles... But I would start the article title (for all reviews) with the word "Review:" However, more particularly as Jema says reclassification doesn't break links, ANDthat a cross-reference scheme is in the offing, it doesn't matter nearly as much what category or where an individual piece goes, just so long as "News & Comment is cleared out and can be abolished. Then the task becomes rationalising Events, Links, Glossary, Gallery (and maybe About Us - which *ought* to at least contain "tell a friend") There, I'm done. |
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| tahir |
Wild Food
Grow Your Own Poultry and Livestock Cooking, Brewing & Preserving Reduce, Re-use, Recycle Sustainables & Renewables Rants, Raves & Reviewsor if reviews are wherever they are most appropriate "Rants & Raves". Everything Else |
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| Jonnyboy |
Reduce, Reuse & Recycle is awfully similar to Sustainable & Renewable.
I would rather merge that than anything. |
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| tahir |
True |
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| jema |
Less is better than more.
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| jema |
So have we a conclusion yet  I had been planning to start making changes yesterday, but it all seems to have blown up into the air again
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| Treacodactyl |
I've given up the will to live. | ||||||||
| Jonnyboy |
Here's mine then.
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| Bugs |
Jema/Tahir: is there any easy way to take a list of all the article titles we have? Then we could see which seem to naturally group together and how. | ||||||||
| tahir |
I'm happy woth JBs, RRR could incorporate Energy Efficiency etc | ||||||||
| Treacodactyl |
Right, I've locked myself in a room, put my head in a noose and I've got about an hour before the block of ice melts.
To keep the titles the right length we don't need salting or smoking as they are methods of preserving. We also don't need the word rant as that's an opinion. So how about: 1) Wild Food 2) Growing Your Own 3) Poultry and Livestock 4) Brewing & Preserving 5) Gourmet Downsizer (I prefer Culinary Creations) 6) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle 7) Crafts & Skills 8] Reviews & Opinions |
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| jema |
Welcome to Mambo Latest
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| tahir |
Sounds good to me, I'm still not sure that brewing/preserving should be seperated from general cooking though...., I'm easy on Gourmet or Culinary (I think we could probably do better, but it's not that important.) |
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| Jonnyboy |
tweaks?
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| tahir |
Why can't "Gournet Downsizer" cover all food/beverage processing? | ||||||||
| Treacodactyl |
I liked "Cooking, Brewing & Preserving". Does exactly what it says on the tin. I think Cab didn't wish for them to be merged but has avoided this tread after throwing a spanner in the works. 
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| Bugs |
Thanks for the list Jema. I have categorised them in a way that to my mind seems logical, leaving out Trading Posts and news/announcements about the site, as I think we are talking here about real "articles" that provide advice, information, ideas etc.
Unfortunately I wind up with 7 I will put the rest of my ideas in a separate post because this one is embarassingly long as it is
Growing food In praise of the humble allotment Growing your own Renovating old fruit trees Growing your own Crop rotation Growing your own Gravity fed irrigation system Growing your own Basic home composting Growing your own Growing vegetables with no garden Growing your own Planning your allotment Growing your own Processing food Dealing with a stuck ferment Home Brewing Filing Cabinet Hot/Cold smoker Curing and Smoking Smoking times with portions and a small smoker Curing and Smoking Home wine making Home Brewing The Hydrometer Home Brewing Sloe Gin and Vodka Home Brewing Herb and Flower Wines Home Brewing Basic Stock Making - - Beef, Chicken, Fish Cookery How to... joint a rabbit Wild Food Bread Making Cookery Making Bacon - 3 day cure Curing and Smoking Home Made Pasta Cookery Samosas - Tasty Snacks and easy to make Cookery The easiest sponge cake in the world Cookery Yoghurt making Cookery A basic guide to jam and jelly making Cookery Basic jam recipes Cookery Making jellies and preserving wild fruits Cookery River Cottage Meat Book - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingst... Book Reviews A Taste of India Book Reviews Review - Preserved - Nick Sandler and Johnny Acton Book Reviews Herring: King Of The Sea Food - Production and Distribution The Game Cook Book by Clarissa Dickson-Wright & Jo... Book Reviews Finding food Top Ten Wild Foods for May Wild Food Top Ten Wild Mushrooms for the Beginner Wild Food Top Ten Wild Foods for June Wild Food Top Ten Wild Foods to Gather in Winter Wild Food Ground Elder Recipes - Eat Your Way to Eradicating... Wild Food Top Ten Wild Foods in February Wild Food Top Ten Wild Foods in March Wild Food Top Ten Wild Foods for April Wild Food An Introduction To Freshwater Fishing Wild Food Starting Lure Fishing Wild Food Fungi Phobia Wild Food Paunching & Skinning a Rabbit Wild Food Top Ten Wild Foods for July Wild Food Mackerel - The most underrated fish in the sea Wild Food Top Ten Wild Foods for August Wild Food Raising livestock Chicken Keeping Poultry and Livestock Feeding Chickens Poultry and Livestock Eggonomics or the maths for keeping chickens Poultry and Livestock Chicken Concerns, Problems and Ailments Poultry and Livestock Building your own incubator Poultry and Livestock Keeping Geese…..easy as pie! Poultry and Livestock Beekeeping - What is it? Poultry and Livestock Lambing for beginners Poultry and Livestock Animal aromatics down on the smallholding Organisations & Clubs How I got the best bacon in the world (or, an Eeji... Poultry and Livestock A yarn about the Kerry Hill… Poultry and Livestock The bigger picture - ideas, opinions and your stories on a lower-impact life First steps in finding out about downsizing Starting Out The Bridge Between Modern Living and Downshifting ... Starting Out Real Christmas Spirit - Charity Fund instead of Ch... Reduce, Re-use, Recycle Dustbin or Dinnertable? Food - Production and Distribution Equine tourism - the Moorland Mousie Trust Charities and voluntary groups Carrier Bags are Rubbish Reduce, Re-use, Recycle Going West: An Immigration Story Starting Out Volunteering for HDRA Starting Out A sustainable home - crafts, education, technology, health, shopping, DIY Creating a wood working shop Starting Out Creating a Store-room Growing your own Deck on a Hill Landscaping - get your digger out Building Your Own Home Starting Out Basic Home Electrics Starting Out Food for thought for the downsizing homebuyer Starting Out Going Organic Isn’t Just About Food Starting Out Keeping a fragrant and fresh house Reduce, Re-use, Recycle A New Seat for a Footstool Reduce, Re-use, Recycle Home Made Natural Skin Cream Reduce, Re-use, Recycle Mooncup Memoirs Reduce, Re-use, Recycle Home Education Basics Home Education Basic Guide to Safer Internet Use IT and Home Computing How to make your own washable menstrual pads Reduce, Re-use, Recycle Using Reusable Nappies - it makes sense Reduce, Re-use, Recycle Herbal Beauty Treatments Reduce, Re-use, Recycle How to make a lavender wand Reduce, Re-use, Recycle Soap Making- a beginner's guide Reduce, Re-use, Recycle LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) Starting Out A sustainable world - transport, energy, conservation, recycling Cycling - Load Carrying Transport Cycling - Benefits and Disadvantages Transport A failed first attempt at making charcoal Sustainable Building/Energy Efficiency Big small wind power! Sustainable Construction/Renewables Installing a wood burner Starting Out Wind power to the people! Sustainable Building/Energy Efficiency Fun solar - solar water heating Sustainable Building/Energy Efficiency How To Make Biodiesel by Low Impact Living Book Reviews Don't pay the Ferryman! DIY funerals Reduce, Re-use, Recycle Principles of Designing Gardens for Wildlife Sustainable Building/Energy Efficiency Small Scale Coppice Production Landscaping - get your digger out Hedgelaying Yorkshire Style Landscaping - get your digger out |
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| tahir |
Me too. I think we should go with this andjust wait and see what we do with category no.8 |
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| jema |
My apologies! I gave up looking just before it appears a workable consensus was reached.
I will start to implement this. |
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| jema |
We do need category descriptions for all the categories... |