Little Green Blog

Chile Chew’s Cut the crap challengeI laughed my way through an amazing thread this week, over at MSE about unusual things people had sold on eBay. It bought true meaning to ‘one mans trash is another’s treasure’.

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Nature mom’s Big Green Spring Clean challengeOh dear! Here’s another one where I fell at the first gate! See, there’s this thing with me. I’m a starter and not much of a finisher. At school I could run the 200 metres like a rabbit on speed, but I could never do the cross country. I’m […]

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recycled plastic milk and water bottlesWe’re nearing the end of April already. If you’ve followed previous posts, you’ll see that I signed up for a few challenges to keep me occupied. And have I learned alot about myself in this time!
I set myself a Rubbish Challenge. I wanted to reduce our one dustbin of rubbish […]

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help prevent global warming by using real nappiesAs we are celebrating Real Nappy Week, Downshifting Week and it’s Earth Day, I thought we’d talk about nappies. After all, it’s our children and Grandchildren we are taking action for.
The jury is still out whether real or disposable nappies are the better option. Some say that the […]

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Real nappies - kinder for your baby and kinder to the environmentA short post from me today, as I’m spending some time with Little Miss Green doing all those things I have said ‘yes’ to over the past week, but not actually got around to doing. That must be so frustrating at the age of […]

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using water gathered in a water butt to save waterLittle Miss Green asked me what global warming was yesterday. It was something she heard me mention in a conversation with somebody else.
She knows that Mother Nature doesn’t like us to cut down trees unnecessarily, leave rubbish lying around, or put too many things in the […]

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