This is a very happy announcement and I hope you will all join me in congratulating our Green Girl, Clare, on the arrival of her baby, Theo!
Clare, who also runs the fantastic Veg Box Recipes has been one of our longest standing GGG editors, sharing her wealth of knowledge on yummy seasonal veg and scrumptious [...]

Are you making the most of the incredibly short asparagus season? Blink and you miss it…
May and early June see the brief few weeks when we can get hold of locally-grown asparagus (I’m talking UK and Europe here - apologies to the rest of the global community!).

Asparagus is a short-lived treat!
The rest of the year [...]

This meeting has been organised by Transition Nottingham which is part of a network of pioneering communities working to reduce our impact on the climate and increase our resilience to the effects of Peak Oil.
SPEAKER: Rob Hopkins, Architect of the Transition movement, co-founder of the Transition Network and and Transition Totnes.
Date: Tuesday 27th May 2008 [...]

This is the most amazing time of year, everywhere you look there’s new life.
Flowers are beginning to bloom, birds are preparing their nests, tiny rabbit kittens graze on the grassy roadsides - there is ‘ahhh factor’ galore!
Even in our own back garden we’ve had some special babies this year. For the first time the frogs [...]

If you’re in Nottingham this weekend come along to the Green Festival in the Arboretum.
There will be music, games, crafts, demonstrations and lots and lots of green businesses and organisations. Jez and I will be there with our Make Hay ethical e-media and Green Hosting stall and we’ll also publicise GGG of course!
This event is [...]

I’m back! Regular GGG readers may have noticed that it has been some time since I wrote a post for this fantastic blog and I would like to apologise for that. However I hope that you will forgive me as I have been in the middle of selling my house and relocating. Whilst I have lots [...]

Nearly all of us have an object at home whose sentimental value far outweighs its worth in cold hard cash. And despite what some may say, savouring your precious object doesn’t make you a ‘Gollum’, and I think it is a really valuable characteristic; one that will help us all to make the most [...]

Well, aren’t you lucky? Our friends over at moreeco are giving GGG readers a special offer on eco products and a chance to offset their carbon all at the same time!
How moreeco works:
When you buy from one of the many, many eco shops via the moreeco site you earn points which can be redeemed for [...]

I have been reading a lot lately ( I also owe you wonderful readers a review of John Grants “green marketing manifesto”)But I want to raise another matter today.It seems like we’re in the fight for something bigger than “just” the environment. Apparently it looks like we are the generation who is going to take [...]

As little girls we all wanted a Barbie Doll, as grown women we all wanted to be Barbie.  Face it, as the saying goes “the bitch has everything”, the dream house, car, and guy, not to mention she’s had every career under the sun.  Barbie’s been an astronaut, school teacher, nurse, business woman, Rock Star, and we’ve [...]