Global events
Kit Kat goes Fairtrade
Back in March 2009, Cadbury announced this it’s Dairy Milk bars would be made with Fairtrade cocoa. Now nestle have followed suit by turning the nation’s favourite chocolate biscuit bar, the Kit Kat, into a fairtrade indulgence. From next January, Kit Kat will bear the fair trade logo which ensures African farmers get more for…
Read MoreA call to action to change the future of our planet
Within the next few days, 110 world leaders arrive in Copenhagen for 60 hours of negotiations It’s time to add your voice to get leaders to act for a real deal on climate change. Avaaz (an independent, not-for-profit global campaigning organization that works to ensure that the views and values of the world’s people inform…
Read MoreGreenhouse Neutral Foundation Copenhagen Climate Change World Hunger Strike
If you want to send a powerful message to our world leaders about world hunger, then here is your chance! The United Nations Climate Change conference takes place 7th to the 18th of December in Copenhagen where world leaders from 192 countries will gather to issue a response to climate change
Read MoreGreen up your halloween
It’s the cheap plastic tat, sweets laden with sugar and chemicals and once-use disposable items that are the most ghoulish things about Halloween. At the end of the night, the landfill groans with plastic that will take hundreds of years to degrade, the streets are littered with sweet wrappers and children are stuffed to the…
Read MoreA FAB idea from Co-Operative for Copenhagen
Our excessive use of the earth’s resources, especially of fossil fuels, is the main cause of the harmful effects of changes in our climate systems today. By signing the Co-operatives latest petition , you’ll become part of a worldwide community calling for a FAB Agreement at Copenhagen, ie. one that is Fair, Ambitious and Binding.…
Read MoreChange the world Wednesday – week 2
It’s change the world Wednesday! This is the second time we’ve taken part and this week is a very timely challenge for me. I think some of the participants might have been spying on me! Over on Reduce Footprints, where the challenge is set each week, we’ve been asked to give up paper kitchen towel.…
Read More“A crude awakening” Life after peak oil
You know you’re in for an alternative night’s entertainment when you hear oil described as “the excrement of the devil”. Released in November 2007, “A Crude Awakening“, directed by Ray McCormack and Basil Gelpke is a 90 minute documentary about the planet’s dwindling oil supply. The films ‘cast’ is made up of experts from the…
Read MoreChange the world Wednesday
I’ve come across a wonderful idea this week! How about ‘Change the world Wednesday’ for a brilliant concept? The idea originated on the Reduce Footprints blog and I first heard about it through TC’s Live Smart site The idea behind the challenge is to look at the positive impact of lots of people doing the…
Read MoreUK Clothing And Shoe Brands Driving Amazon Destruction
After a three-year, undercover investigation by Greenpeace, it’s been discovered that Brazil’s booming cattle industry – which is the single biggest cause of deforestation in the world – is linked to some of Britain’s biggest brands and the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. In addition, the Brazilian government has offered billions of dollars in loans…
Read MoreWorld Fair Trade Day and Tropical Wholefoods
I’m not shy of the kitchen. In fact Little Miss Green loves my home baking and a house is just not a home to her without a full cake tin or biscuit barrel! World Fair Trade day is being celebrated on May 9th and I was challenged to make the ultimate recipe by Tropical Wholefoods…
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