Posts Tagged ‘ethical living’

Present sense

This week I announced that I was joining in with a Buy Nothing New challenge for a month! November can be a bit of a dodgy time for this because I like to get my Christmas preparation done early.

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Get paid £25,000 to volunteer for a year

Hands up who loves the idea of volunteering, but doesn’t have time to do it, due to work constraints? Vodafone have come up with the perfect solution with their fabulous World of Difference Campaign. The Vodafone Group Foundation is searching for four passionate people in the UK, to put their jobs on hold for a…

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An update on my rubbish challenge

We’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 a week to one…

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Mr Green says ditch the plastic bag!

Today, after telling Mr Green about some of the devastating effects on our marine life caused by plastic waste, he made a pledge. We were on our way to the shop at the time and he said ‘That’s it. We have to refuse carrier bags from now on. And if we don’t have something with…

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Real nappies – better for the environment than disposables?

As 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 amount of water, chemicals, non-renewable resources,…

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Earth Day and Real Nappy Week

A 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 seven! Just a quick mention then, for Earth Day, which falls…

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Teaching children about the environment – five tips

Little 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 landfill, but I guess she didn’t actually know…

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