Archive for June, 2010

Summertime is a great time of year to sit down with family, friends and neighbours, and enjoy a picnic. In order to celebrate this most hallowed of British past-times, the folks at The Big Lunch are at it again, encouraging us all to get together, enjoy some food and drink, in a nationwide day of picnic celebrations on Sunday 18th July.

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However much we want to limit our electricity and water usage, an unavoidable household chore munches up both is doing the laundry. There’s not a great deal you can do to reduce this, especially if you live in a busy household!

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‘Hosepipe Ban’ can be a dreaded phrase when summer comes round. Those in the South will be more used to living under that threat than the rest of us up North (we’re not often short of rain!), but we’re all certainly used to talk of water shortages and restricted hose pipe usage. Many people think of this as a major hardship, and as gardener myself I can see the grief of not being able to go outside and water the plants. However, if hosepipe bans do come into play again this summer, perhaps we should think of it as a prompt to think about water shortages across the world, rather than just worrying, quite literally, about our own back yards.

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We love our solar gadgets at EthicalSuperstore. From solar powered radios to solar powered garden lights, it never fails to impress us when a new solar gadget makes an appearance.

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Our good friends at Sustrans are running launched their ‘Change Your World‘ campaign this month. Designed to encourage us all to get out of our cars and travel by more eco-friendly modes of transport, ‘Change Your World’ is totting up all of the miles which have been saved on their website, keeping a tally of everybodys’ achievements.

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World Environment Day 2010

Scientists claim we are an estimated one in 5 – 100 million different species roaming our planet.  2 million different species of living creatures have been identified so far, with more all the time.  It’s a well known fact that human activity is the cause of some destruction in our planet.  Rainforest depletion, global warming issues and the extinction of animals are triggered by the choices our species has made and continues to make. 

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