Book Review and Interview with Author Tracey Smith
As I took an over-ripe pepper and nearly full bag of mushrooms out of the fridge and set them aside for the compost bin I thought about the first few pages from Tracey Smith’s Book of Rubbish Ideas. I don’t feel good about wasting this food but at [...]

The other day when I was downtown Copenhagen I saw this :

it’s a transparent container. I think it would rock if we could actually see our trash at all times, so it isn’t hidden away somewhere in the supply chain of the world.
I found something similar in a blogpost today which is a rubbish around [...]

The first week of September is zero waste week for Rachelle and her family in Gloucestershire.
Since June, they’ve been working on reducing the amount they send to landfill and, in just 2 weeks’ time, they are going for the big fat zero.
They started off throwing away about a kilo a week of rubbish - already [...]

How many material possessions do we need to be happy?   How much space do we need to live comfortably?   As a society can we escape from the western vision of what the perfect life should be, thus improving the environment? These are some of the questions I have been thinking about lately whilst I have [...]

I’m reading a book at the moment called ‘Confessions of an Eco Sinner - Travels to find where my stuff comes from’ by Fred Pearce.
It goes into everything from wedding rings to jeans, computer parts to green beans, and it’s a really interesting read as you follow the author on his journey around the world [...]

I got a bokashi bin for Christmas. Two actually.
And yes, I did ask for them!
When they finally arrived in January, I ripped open the package, full of excitement, to find two black bins, some bits of plastic and a large bag of bran. Somehow all this was supposed to turn our cooked kitchen scraps into [...]

About one year ago I completely stopped wearing contact lenses as my eyes had become so sore and sensitive that I was unable to wear them without being in pain. It was at first difficult for me to feel comfortable / confident socialising in my eyeglasses (spectacles) as I had become so used to wearing [...]

These days my email inboxes are on overload, some of which are unwelcome spam. However an email that I always look forward to is Friends of the Earth ‘Tip of the day’ and recently they made me aware about a fantastic website that is encouraging people to turn junk into treasure:

Junkk.com has some great features [...]

After moaning that I hadn’t heard much from the Plastic Bag Free Brighton campaign in my last post, I was chuffed to get an email today with their latest news.

They are inviting everyone (well, it’s first come, first seated!) to a a free screening of ‘message in the waves’ at Brighton’s lovely arthouse cinema, the [...]

Rachel is having a reusable bunny tote contest - enter a comment in her blogpost before valentines day and you will enter the bunny tote contest.