|
You need to upgrade your Flash Player.
|
- Gardening and pest control - Green cleaning - Environment issues - Reduce, Reuse, Recylce
- Energy saving - Travel and transport - Waste and recycling - Water conservation - Ethical consumerism
- Common ailments - Home health treatments - Health advisor - Tonics and supplements
Recent articles 
Before you pour any water down the drain, ask yourself if you can reuse it. Could you pour it onto a plant, flush the toilet with it or clean some patio furniture with it?
Sunday lunch looks like this in our house: Water is used to par boil potatoes. When they are done, that water is tipped into the steamer for steaming the vegetables. Finally the water from the steamer is used to make gravy! It saves water AND fuel because I don’t have to keep heating up cold water.
What could you do today to save water? For more ideas read “nine tips to help you save water“
We’ve mentioned many remedies for treating hayfever on the site, from using honey to acupressure. Some of these I have tried myself, others have been recommended by various books and websites I’ve read.
This year I have had a lot of success using EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique).
What I love to hear most of all is things other people have tried that have worked for them personally. Read the full story »
As you may remember, Mr Green replaced our lighting with LEDs and installed a couple of small solar panels to run them.
So far so good; we now enjoy free lighting most of the year.
We would love to …
Calendula ointment is a number one ‘must have’ for the natural first aid kit.
It’s soothing, healing and calming and is gentle enough to use on children. Unfortunately many unscrupulous companies mix calendula with all sorts …
A couple of years ago I talked about Go Green Tube.
Now Eco Tube is on a mission to build a community of like minded people. They are providing a forum for people to express their …
I’ve just been reading about Capital Growth, a campaign which has a goal of creating 2012 new community food growing spaces for London by 2012.
The Capital Growth campaign offers practical advice and support to communities …
We’re made from it, buildings can be built from it, it cleans our water, purifies the air, cleans us and can heal our body and mind. In short, it is the ultimate natural …
I’m delighted to be sharing a guest post with you from Stacey Curnow. Stacey works as a certified nurse-midwife in North Carolina. She has been a student of positive psychology for years and has applied …
Happy Birthday to Triodos Bank who celebrate their 15th anniversary of banking in the UK this year.
Set up 30 years ago in the Netherlands, Triodos marked the start of a revolution in finance - a …
Following the theme of this month’s Natural Parenting Carnival on food, this month’s APLS Carnival asks us to celebrate food too.
We’re asked to share our favourite farmers market experience.
I’m privileged to experience my favourite experience …
There are some jobs you dream of.
Maybe it’s to be the boss of your own multi million dollar company, working with children, caring for the sick, running an organic farm, editing your own magazine or …
Welcome to the July Carnival of Natural Parenting: Let’s Talk About Food
This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our …
Alas my days of breastfeeding Little Miss Green are long over. She was breastfed until she was 2, which I felt immensely proud of.
I felt a great sense of achievement because it wasn’t easy. She …
I’m thrilled to be sharing a guest post with you today. Tessa, when not pottering around in her back garden, blogs as Green Blogging and professionally as Landlord Law Blog.
Today, she wants to share …
British supporters of homeopathy, including GPs, medical experts, MPs and patients, are disappointed by motions carried against homeopathy at yesterday’s conference of the British Medical Association in Brighton.
Many supporters of homeopathy gathered in front of …
Today is the new moon at 19 degrees Cancer. The new moon is at 20:40 (BST), along with a solar eclipse! Wherever 19 degrees Cancer falls in your birth chart will signify important turning points …
