I went to the garage and found my seedling trays had degraded or been mashed in a recent house move. Not to be deterred from planting, and reluctant to buy anything new I came up with a new way of planting my seedlings this year! My boys stuffed pasta comes in a plastic tray and…
So way back in October when I first saw a viral facebook post about ecobricks it was a complete lightbulb moment! I was inspired get out my environmental doldrums, pick myself up by the bootstraps, resurrect this blog (which had been sitting waiting to be used for over year) and get cracking with ecobricks. As…
Its no secret that the fashion industry is trashing the planet in a variety of different ways… …but giving up your NEXT, TESCO CLOTHES {instert high street shop name here} fix can be hard! Maybe you are already well fed up with the fashion industry or perhaps just dipping your toes in… Wherever you are,…
I guess you can imagine how happy I was when this arrived at my table the other day… mint tea made from actual mint leaves! Served in a real cup, with a side snack of Fair Trade chocolate with recyclable packaging. Ah bliss! The sweet smell of guilt free tea 🙂 Well, even better this…
When you weight almost any purchase on a scale of “Pleasure / Use” VS “In our environment for 1000’s of years” it can become quite hard to make decisions. Thankfully you no longer have to weigh that one up with flowers! I was delighted to find that Morrisons always seem to stock a nice selection of flowers…
The Wee Rebellion event in Glasgow today at the CCA provides an excellent opportunity to see how we can start to make positive steps towards fighting climate change in a range of hands-on workshops and stalls. The family friendly format is a perfect way of introducing some green practices to our younguns and inspiring the whole…
I love pets. I mean absolutely adore my little menagerie! (this has to be an excuse to share some lovely animal pictures right?!) Niggling in the back of my mind is that these little furry delights to add to our families environmental impact. Meat, especially red meat, is the most resource intensive food stuff we…
Its come to my attention that barely anyone knows what its possible to recycle at the carrier bag recycling points. This is hardly surprising as the information is not easily found! It took a fair bit of research but I’ve compiled a list of all the things we can actually recycle quite conveniently as we…
Becoming a little obsessed lately with waste and what exactly happens to it after it’s neatly and conveniently whisked away from sight I decided to do a little research. I spoke to the “Waste Awareness Team” at our local authority who answered some of my questions about what happens to our recycled waste, gave me some…
