Natural and Organic Food

Sorry to have to write about this after such a long layoff without writing anything, but this site has recently been hacked by some bastard and a load of malware inserted into a lot of the files.

This cost me a lot of time cleaning it all out, so you’ll have to bear with me while I get this show back on the road at some stage.

At present my writing commitments are too tight to allow me much time at writing any of my blogs at the moment, but whenever I get a break I’ll get back in here and add some more informative organic articles to this place and maybe even spruce it up a little.

Terry Didcott
Organic Sanity

Natural and Organic Food has been given some Google love in the form of a PR2, which came as a bit of a surprise as I haven’t been promoting this site as much as some of my others, but a nice surprise nevertheless.

I’m sure it has a lot to do with the amount of good quality content in here and less to do with the eternal scrabble to obtain back-links from other sites that most marketing bloggers seem to be hell-bent on. Ah well, sometimes it’s good to take things at an easy pace and let things like this happen when they happen!

As for this site in general, I’ve not gone overboard in trying to turn it into a money making machine as it’s not really that sort of site. True, there are a few affiliate books and other bits and bobs here and there that I’ve put up to earn a few dollars from it so it can pay its way and justify my time in looking after it. But in the end, there are my other higher profile sites that can do that much more effectively. That leaves this place to run at a nice, sedate pace - which fits in nicely with an organic lifestyle!

So don’t despair if you notice the odd advertising banner appear here and there - it’s not a sign that tons more will follow, just me trying to make an honest buck from my writing and blogging.

Lastly, hows this for a neat organic tip:

If you’re worried about burning wood in a stove because of the CO2 emissions, don’t. If left to rot naturally in the wild, that lump of wood will give off exactly the same amount of CO2 as it decomposes naturally as it would if your burned it, so in actual fact you are not doing the environment any more damage by burning it and actually saving on other non-renewable sources of fuel like oil.

Terry Didcott
Natural and Organic Food

Ok, that’s my oxymoron of the day!

I’ve just added Organic Sanity to my Technorati Profile, in order to spread the word a bit further into the world of blogging and readers with an interest in an organic lifestyle. Hopefully it will help to generate some more online traffic to my organic door!

But how far off the truth am I with that title?

In fact, there are ways of getting around that are totally organic and could quite genuinely be described as traffic. I’m talking about pedal power on two wheels - the bicycle!

Ok, that’s not the only one - for the lazier traveler there are electric vehicles around that don’t put out any pollution into our atmosphere. That’s good. What’s not so good about them is they aren’t very recyclable as the batteries they use contain corrosive acid and heavy metals (lead) or worse (nickel-cadmium).

But then you could go crazy by running down all the modern attempts to cut down on pollution in order to keep our transport system going. At least many of them are rather better for the environment than the carcinogenic exhaust fume producing internal combustion engine!

And even that environmental nightmare has a good side - the diesel engine was originally invented to run on heavy oil - vegetable oil in particular. And it really will - with a little modification - and what comes out of the exhaust is a darn sight cleaner than when those engines are used to burn petroleum derived diesel oil.

It is even possible to run a modified internal combustion engine entirely on hydrogen gas - the by product that comes out of the exhaust is water vapour and nothing else!

So if these alternatives are there, tried and tested and are known to work - why do you suppose they aren’t the main methods of transport in the twenty-first century?

Don’t make your head hurt by trying to figure that one out - it’s easy. Just think of that thick black liquid that comes out of the ground and makes some very large companies some very serious profits every year. It’s what lives are risked at crazy depths under the sea to drill out. It’s what countries go to war for. It’s what the world economy is based on.

Without it, where would we be? Hmmm.

Terry Didcott
Natural and Organic Food

There has been an almighty change to the way into this site. The static homepage has been replaced with a fluid blog.

Why?

Because a blog is a focus for interest in everything to do with what this site is all about. It will be updated regularly with new, interesting and intriguing topics to satisfy the curiosity of you, the readers! Added to that positive step in the right direction, this blog gives you the chance to interact with the site by posting comments making it a total two way medium!

So if there’s anything you’d like to see added to this site, then within reason, I’ll try to add it. If there’s anything you don’t like about it, please tell me and I’ll listen and if your comment is constructive and I agree that it will benefit the readers of this site, then I will implement change.

That’s the whole beauty of a blog as a site homepage. Reader interaction and two way communication between yourselves and the site administrator (well, at the moment, it’s just me!!! But as it grows, who knows, there may well be more people involved in keeping the momentum up).

So I hope you like the new feel of the site and will bookmark this page as one to come back and visit to see what new informational and entertaining posts I put up next.

Terry Didcott
Natural and Organic Food