Posts Tagged ‘united kingdom’
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
No Compost and Cornerstone Housing Co-op
A mini-digger picking up piles of dead trees, brash and leaves and dumping them in a huge hole in the ground is hardly most people's idea of permaculture - a practice more commonly associated with low tech solutions like
chicken tractors,
chicken greenhouses and
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Tags: agriculture, Chicken Tractors, Compost, composting, Cornerstone, Dead Trees, food, Greenhouses, Hole In The Ground, Housing Co, Leaves, local food, Mini Digger, People, permaculture, Piles, Raised Beds, Tech Solutions, united kingdom
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Image credit: Back to Nature
Waste is certainly a silly thing - and one that doesn't sit well with the concept of living green. So the idea of an easy, complete kit for waste free school lunches is appealing. Including a stainless steel drink bottle, 2 stainless steel containers with leak proof plastic lids, 1 Food Kozy™ (reusable bag for sandwiches, cheese etc..), 1 cotton napkin, 1 recycled aluminium tag, the new
reusable school lunch kit from UK-based Back to Nature seems like a great way to teach kids to reuse. But I do h...
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Tags: Aluminium, Cheese, food, Free Lunch, Free School Lunches, Image Credit, Image Nature, Leak Proof, Lunch Kit, Plastic Lids, recycled consumer goods, reusability, Sandwiches, School Help, School Lunch, Silly Thing, Stainless Steel Containers, united kingdom, waste
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Photo via jontintinjordan
The
Environment Agency of the United Kingdom slapped Red Bull with a record fine earlier this week. The company made a little slip-up - well, an 8-year-long big slip up - that it's now paying a big chunk of pocket change to correct. ...
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Tags: Chunk, corporate responsibility, Environment Agency, Photo, Pocket Change, recycling, Red Bull, Red Wings, Science & Technology, united kingdom, waste
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Image credit: Christian Aid
As a budding young environmentalist back in the nineties, I often used to get frustrated at the lack of cooperation between environmental groups and poverty-alleviation/development activists. It was as if you could either help the environment, or you could help people, but doing both was seen as a pipe dream. My how times have changed. As the
impact of climate change on the world's poor makes itself known, it seems increasingly hard to call yourself an environmentalist if you aren't concerned with humanitarian and social justice issues, and it see...
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Tags: activism, Activists, bikes, Christian Image, Cooperation, denmark, economics, Environmental Groups, Fight Climate Change, Image Credit, Nineties, Pipe Dream, poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Social Issues, Social Justice Issues, united kingdom, Young Environmentalist
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Image credit: Toyota
Are hybrids really greener?
I don't usually get excited about cars, and haven't since I was about 14. But I must admit a fondness for the Prius - and not just for environmental reasons. I actually find it fun to drive, yet every time we
post on the Toyota Prius we get commenters complaining that it is boring, or ugly, or that the environmental impact of the batteries outweighs any emissions savings. And posts about
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Tags: Ask Online, batteries, cars, Debate, electric cars, electric vehicles, Emissions, Environmental Impact, Environmental Reasons, Fondness, hybrid cars, Hybrids, Image Credit, Lithium, Lithium Ion, Plug In Hybrid, Prius, Prius Toyota, Toyota, Toyota Lease, Toyota Prius, Transportation, Ugly, united kingdom
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