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You don’t have to tell me twice that going to a festival is good for me. I had the best time last year at The Green Man in the Brecon Beacons, Robert Plant was awesome and despite the mud (my children thought it looked like chocolate icing) and the rain, we had a brilliant time. Going to a festival will put a buzz into your summer, and the best news is that now, thanks to Gigantic.com it may improve somebody else’s summer too. 10% of the Gigantic.com booking fee goes to Oxfam, to help overcome poverty and suffering around the world. And if you’re not sure which festival to pick, I recommend checking out Gogol Bordello at Get Loaded in the Park at Clapham Common. Check out Gigantic.com for all the listings.

Gigantic.com – tickets for gigs, concerts and festivals

Don’t forget to enter our giveaway to win a green festival kit courtesy of Ecotopia.

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It’s been some months now since Jurdy first appeared on the scene at EcoStreet to provide some comic relief to the otherwise very serious issue of global warming and what we’re going to do about it. He’s become a regular feature here on a Monday morning, so it’s about time that you were introduced to him properly.

Jurdy is the alter-ego of Jenifer Jurden, who was influenced by her long-time syndicated editorial cartoonist father Jack Jurden from an early age. So early, in fact, that she was drawing before she could walk. At the age of eight, after noticing the character that featured at the bottom of her father’s cartoons, she decided to create a character of her own, and Jurdy was born. Over the years, a strong friendship formed between this dynamic duo, with the recent development of Jurdy going green, to mirror Jenifer’s own green convictions.

Jenifer created Jurdy to be a universally appealing, engaging and recognizable character in hopes of reaching a world-wide audience. She and Jurdy currently help us laugh through the eco-frenzy of our everyday lives every Monday here at EcoStreet, and now also at her new website, Jurdy Green, where Jurdy will guide us to green successes while we laugh along the way.

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Being right in the middle of a rather big move myself at the moment, a blog post at The Budget Ecoist about recycling moving boxes struck a chord with me. They have 6 six great ideas about how to recycle moving boxes.

1. Take a box, leave a box: Moving companies such as U-Haul now offer drop locations at stores,
allowing customers to drop-off their reusable moving boxes for other
customers to use, or pick up a previously donated box for their own
move. This is a way for customers to help one another while promoting
reuse of the product, which is always preferable to recycling. With
every reuse of a box, a new one is prevented from entering the cycle.

2. Go local with Freecycle and Craigslist: If you are unable to score free boxes at your moving company, try Freecycle or Craigslist.
We often see our local peeps posting offers to give away their
gently-used moving boxes. If you’re not a member of Freecycle, read this postrecycle
all of your unwanted treasures! Need a box? Post a wanted ad. Want to
recycle your boxes? Post an offer ad. It’s that easy.

3. The U-Haul Box Exchange: If you can’t score boxes for free, your next best bet is to go to U-Haul’s messageboard, The U-Haul Box Exchange, where you can trade, sell or buy reusable boxes and moving supplies from other like-minded movers.

4. Return for money: So you were unable to score boxes for
free, and unable to buy them used. OK. So maybe you’re going to have to
purchase them after all. If that’s the case, be sure you purchase from
a company that offers a buyback guarantee. At U-Haul, customers who
provide an original receipt can recoup some money, while preventing
waste.

5. Kids’ castles: And now the fun comes…let’s face it,
some of the boxes just don’t make it through the move. For those boxes
that are mildly damaged and just can’t make it through another packing
cycle, might we suggest having a bit of fun? For anyone who’s ever seen
a toddler have at the box their gift came in (while ignoring the $30
purchase!), you know how imaginative children can be with boxes. Get
the kids outside, hand the boxes over, and see what they come up with!
Or go easy and check out these instructions on how to create the castle of boxes of your dreams!

6. Recycle: You’ve reused other’s boxes (for free!),
you’ve passed them along as well. You gave the damaged ones to kids to
use to their delight. Finally…these boxes are just plain worn-out!
The last refuge of the broken-down, beat up moving box: the recycling
bin.

Moving Boxes: Recycle This [The Budget Ecoist]

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