Making time for love is an important barometer of the commitment and sustainability of your relationship. When you consider the outrageous scheduling hoops we agree to without qualm in our work setting, or even more intensely in managing our children’s activity calendar, it makes you wonder how the idea of scheduling intimacy could still be [...]

CATERPILLAR ATTACK!!! I’m starting to wonder if these veggies are ever going to get on the table when so many other creatures want to eat them right there in the patch. A few days ago I went out into the garden to do my daily check on everything and somehow managed to crash a caterpillar [...]

  Mike, from Jimi, sent GGG a couple of Jimi Wallets to try out and review for our green girls. After a three-week test drive (thanks to my best buddy N, for her help and notes!), the skinny on Jimi: The Company: Jimi was founded a few years ago, with a single product: the basic [...]

Our feelings are like weather patterns. They are changeable and act on the environment with great power. They inform and distract with their intensity. They reflect the nature of the moment with great accuracy. Just as our changing weather patterns are shifting and changing the world we live in, our ability to experience and share [...]

Unless you’ve been on another planet for the past few months you will probably have heard about the massive Live Earth event taking place on 7th July. These 10 concerts across 7 continents will take place over 24 hours with the aim of raising awareness about ‘the climate change crisis’. There’s a huge list of [...]

‘The Nag‘ is like your very own environmental Jiminy Cricket, the site which ‘nags’ you to do something green each month. As soon as you join it sets you to task, mine was switiching to a green energy supplier which was great because it made me think about checking out Ecotricity’s new tariff again. Once [...]

I read last week that Dunoon is aiming to become the first town in Scotland to stop shops from giving away plastic bags. The organiser Caroline Cuddihy has been inspired by Modbury in Devon, the UK’s first plastic bag-free town. There’s more in the Dunoon Observer, and whilst looking for more information on the scheme [...]

The Ethical Company Organisation (who produce the Good Shopping Guide and the Gooshing website) have recently completed research on the ethical status of major UK supermarkets in a study which looks at 12 areas of concern. Some of these areas are animal welfare, environmental impact and human rights. Probably not that surprisingly Sainsburys, Marks and Spencer and Waitrose scored [...]

Attention guys! If you want to impress us green ladies Anna Shepard at Times Online has some great tips for you. Follow her tongue-in-cheek advice and you’re bound to be in the good books in no time. Check out Anna’s post on her Eco Worrier blog: How to be a green rugged man: top ten [...]

Sustainable love, the kind that we use as a compass to keep us connected to a vital, healthy and happy relationships are now being recognized as skills that might just save our species. We finally have the scientific equipment to verify what we have always known: our drive to be social, to be connected to [...]