I’m feeling a very guilty - and cold - green girl at the moment.
Guilty for not writing on this lovely blog for soooo long!
And cold because our central heating has broken… brrrr!
The upside of this, however, is that we will have a heating system that is over 90% efficient by the time our plumbers have [...]

I met Captain Charlie back in 2001. He was going around to various meetings, with a couple of pages of bullet points, and talking to anyone who would listen about the large amounts of small plastic bits he was finding on his trans-pacific sailing trips. He started throwing out a net, and counting up the [...]

 Wake Up And Smell The Planet: The Non-pompous, Non-preachy Grist Guide to Greening Your Day by Grist.org, edited by Brangien Davis

Never has a book on going green made me laugh so hard!  Last month when I flew to Michigan I used my time on the plane to read an advance copy of this book sent [...]

Hurrah! It is now easier to recycle Tetra-Pak packaging in Nottingham and other places in the UK. So when I have finished with my carton of soya milk or fruit juice I can take it to one of my local recycling points instead of posting it to a Recycling Centre in Somerset.
It is great that Nottingham City [...]

Once upon a time (before email was invented) people communicated to each other via letters. Some people would put a lot of thought into the style of handwriting paper that they would use as it could convey a lot about them, for example plain, floral, cartoon or even animals.

So when I needed to write a [...]

First I must fully disclose I did not come up with the list below, it was sent to me by my friends at Co-op America, but this list is too good not to share with others. It is a US based list but at least it gives everyone an idea of things that can [...]

We are about to move house, for the second time this year (not because we love moving, the first time was because the landlord was selling up and this time it is because we have noisy neighbour problems and want to be in a generally quieter area of town), and it’s not an easy process [...]

My partner and I have recently moved from a one bedroom flat to a house with a garden. We have been determined not to go mad and buy up lots of new furniture and to reclaim, freecycle and salvage as much new furniture as we could. My home office as mentioned before has been kitted [...]

this system can reduce your water usage with about 5000 in a two person home by 5000 gallons a year. Is there any of you out there that has other water systems installed in the house ?

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 [...]