Christmas is over and what are you going to be doing with all of those old Christmas cards? According to recycle now 1 in 5 people just throw their Christmas cards in the bin. This year you can help the Woodland Trust by recycling old Christmas cards before the end of January 2006. Take them …
I’ve been invited to a baby shower on Saturday and been told that the parents-to-be really don’t need any more clothes for the soon expected bundle of joy. So while thinking through practical alternative options for gifts I hit on the idea of an “Eco-Friendly Baby Sample Pack”, a green version of what Bounty and …
Our old kettle packed up last week and we’ve got ourselves a new kettle. The marvellous Eco Kettle. It is estimated that on average we boil twice as much water as we need when we’re making ourselves a cup of tea. That means 3kW (energy needed to light 50 lightbulbs) ever time you boil it. …
Caught the Dragon’s Den on BBC2 last night. For those of you that don’t know, this is a programme where potential entrepreneurs set themselves up for a fall. The idea of the programme is that there are 5 dragons (sucessful business people) prepared to offer up to £100K to businesses they feel have potential, for …
I feel very uncomfortable with our generation leaving tons of dangerous waste products for our children’s generation to deal with because we didn’t have the imagination to look to renewable sources of energy now? Tony Blair’s blinkered view that nuclear power generation does not produce carbon emissions is nothing more than wishful thinking, and has …
So you’ve had one child and there’s another one on the way. You decide to move to the suburbs to be a stay-at-home-mother while your partner commutes to the city. You start house-hunting in earnest, your head filled with ideas and ideals: the big garden, growing your own veggies, somewhere safe for the kids to …
During this past weekend The Guardian has reported that UK schools are now able to draw on a number of grant resources to help them become more eco-friendly and to save money and the environment by generating their own energy. You can read the full report here. A number of schools up and down the …
It is expected that the government will be putting restrictions on junk food available in schools from September 2006, something that the Caroline Walker Trust considers to be 20 years too late. The trust reports that since 1992 obesity in school aged children has doubled, something that is easy to believe as a mother standing …
With Londoners still bagging and binning enough rubbish to fill an olympic sized swimming pool every hour, it seems Mayor Ken Livingstone still has a long way to go, getting citizens to use his recycling facilities. Services throughout the capital are improving all the time, with better doorstep collections and additional processing available at many …