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(15th September 2008)
The Associated Press has a thing about sewage. A few months ago, it did a very good piece on biosolids and the allegations of ill-health associated with its application to farmland which despite the best efforts of the biosolids industry continue to swirl and rise. (It was supposed to be a series, but nothing else ever appeared, puzzlingly.) AP has also been looking at ...
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(15th September 2008)
One of my refrains is that the neglected world of sanitation needs a celebrity champion who is unafraid to talk about shit. I learn this morning that Greg Wise, best known as Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility, is trying to install biogas digesters in Africa. That's amazing, and it's also amazing that he seems to know what they do. "We don't have a very ...
→ Radio
(11th September 2008)
I loathe to listen to myself on the radio but I suppose other people may not. There is a link in this Media Monkey piece, written by my friend Jason Deans, to Thinking Allowed, a Radio 4 show on which I appeared yesterday. Actually it wasn't that fear of offending my mother stopped me saying "shit": I just forgot.
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(31st August 2008)
An extract from Chapter Three, in the Sunday Telegraph. It includes pictures of the Inax advertising gorilla (in the print version at least) which I never managed to find but I obviously didn't look very hard because here it is and on reflection, much better than TOTO's. Then again, they're equally insane.
Inax gorilla
Toto's crazy rock chick