This is a guest post by Carolyn Algar. For the past few weeks, I have been taking an ECOBag along with me on my shopping sprees (unfortunately these days shopping sprees involve a lot more window shopping). I have their standard wide natural canvas tote, but they do carry a wide range of other bags, …
People across the UK have installed solar thermal panels on their roofs to produce their own energy, but until now none of these small scale generators have been paid by the government or energy suppliers for their power. Good Energy, the UK’s only 100% renewable electricity supplier, is launching Good Energy HotROCs, the UK’s first …
Read more “Good Energy launches groundbreaking deal to pay homes for solar heat”
Charity Practical Action are giving you the opportunity to buy a Practical Present for someone you don’t know this Christmas. Here’s how it works. You buy a fluffy duck for your aunt Mabel, and somewhere in Bangladesh a poor family have duck eggs to eat. Okay, I’ll explain that again. Practical Action works together with …
No need to buy wrapping paper. Just wrap up your presents with what you have lying around at home, and make the gift into an adventure. Surprise balls can be made with scraps of fabric, yarn, lace, bias-binding, rick-rack, whatever you can find in your sewing box, and they’re ideal for wrapping a number of …
Jurdy is the alter-ego of Jen Jurden.
This Saturday, November 29th 2008, it’s Buy Nothing Day. The annual day off to put away your wallet and switch off from shopping. 24 hours to detox from shopping, save money, reduce your carbon footprint, and stop being a consumer. Sinister, innit! There are events in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh and Southampton.
There’s just one week left to vote on who deserves the Worst EU Lobbying Award for 2008, and the nominees are: The agrofuels lobby (including MPOC, Unica and Abengoa) – nominated for their misleading campaigns to promote agrofuels as green; The European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (EAASM) – nominated for hiding the involvement …
What a refreshing change from the old order of US government, I hope that the UK will be maintaining their “special relationship” with US now that the shrub has been ousted. Who knows, Gordon Brown might even learn something from the new guy. Watch this, you’ll like it. It gave me goosebumps. [via: ecorazzi]
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