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There’s no room for boxes on an island

Creative thinking is not a mysterious gift bestowed upon a lucky few, nor is it something you have to be born with. Yes, there’s brain wiring and genetic inheritance, but the ability to think laterally, or outside the box, is merely a way of seeing and something that can be thought, learned and applied by everyone.

 
The Long Road to Bloom

I’m sure the team behind the bloom Garden Show would all agree that it’s a long and winding road to the Phoenix Park.

First mooted a couple of years back, the concept for bloom had been bouncing around the corridors of Clanwilliam Court before finally getting the go ahead late last spring.

 
Stemming the loss

The history of mineral for the rejuvenation of soil goes back as far as the beginnings of agriculture itself. While Liebig’s law of limiting factors may well have been a few millennia in the future, the early tentative farmers were quick to learn the potential qualities of alluvial soil for increasing yields of their crops.

 
Stop selling plants...

...start selling ideas

It now seems that if plant retailers are to move their static plant sales in a positive direction theyve got to stop selling plants altogether; or at least take a radically different sales approach

 
Green Waste Recycling

Barry Lupton looks at green waste recycling in Dublin and visit’s SDCC’s Esker Lane facility


There is no doubt that the economic boom of the last decade has improved our living standards; our houses have become bigger, our holidays longer and I can’t remember the last time I saw an exhaustless cortina bellowing plumes of black smoke

 
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