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The concept of freecycling is a simple one. If you have something you no longer want – but you don’t want to throw it away – you simply place an advert on one of these websites. Other environmentally-conscious people can then go along and search for free goods.
They get freebies so [...]
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We all know that sending household waste to landfill is a really bad idea and that in an ideal world we would manage to recycle or reuse everything taking our landfill down to zero.
But in these days of highly-packaged products, our consumer culture and of non-stop junk mail, what practical steps can [...]
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Increasingly the green community is adopting an anti-meat ethic as environmentalists are realising just how bad eating meat can be for the planet.
Whether it’s the inefficiencies inherent in producing meat, the cutting down of the rainforest for cattle, the carbon footprint of transporting lamb from New Zealand or the methane produced by [...]
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Part of modern life these days, especially if you are part of the internet age (which I guess you are, if you’re reading this article!) is the use of search engines to find websites.
But have you ever considered that there might be greener alternatives to Google, Yahoo and Bing? Alternatives where you [...]
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For many of us green-minded folk, the attraction of growing our own crops is strong. We get to save money, grow organically thus eliminating herbicide and pesticide use, reduce food miles and eat fresh, natural food which can only be good for us.
And yet, for all the attraction of growing out own [...]
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I admit that as a lover of eating fish, I was pretty shocked recently to watch a amazing documentary film called The End Of The Line. Incase you haven’t watched it yourself it is well worth looking up. Here’s a quick, if somewhat depressing, trailer:
I admit that the movie really [...]
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Gardens are wonderful places to spend a summers day and yet surprisingly many features in a garden are not as green as they could be.
In this article I’d like to examine just a few things for you to consider which may help you to make your garden just that little bit [...]
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Growing your own food can be as complicated or as simple as you want it to be. At one end of the scale you could just put aside one small area in your garden in order to grow a few vegetables yourself. At the other end of the scale you could start [...]
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Not On The Label is a book which promises to give a behind-the-scenes tour of the food industry, revealing things that the big food producers and manufacturers would never want us to see.
Call me nosey but anything that is going to potential reveal some juicy secrets really gets my interest [...]
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Having recently got back from a few days up in Edinburgh I was really taken by not only what a lovely city it is, but also what a great ecotourism destination it is. Now true, your presence there isn’t going to contribute to the protection of the rainforest or support ethnic minorities [...]
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