This week’s Carnival of the Green is at Groxie, and my pick of the posts has got to be the Recycling Guide at Confessions of a Closet Environmentalist. Honestly, even if you think you know it all about recycling, you… Read More »Carnival of the Green #80
Green fingers – What effect is climate change having on our gardens and what can we do about it? Greener battery options – We explore the alternatives to disposable batteries. Old fashioned household products are green and CHEAP! – Forget… Read More »May’s top eco-features at EcoStreet
If your postman is looking tired and you’re fed up with the mountains of catalogues falling through your door every day, you probably won’t be too surprised to know that almost 5.4 million items of direct mail are sent out… Read More »How to reduce junk mail
Here at EcoStreet we’ve been testing natural sunscreens. These are our favourites. Yaoh Organic Hemp Seed Oil Sun Block comes in SPF15 and SPF30 and smells utterly delicious. Both options combine the protective, moisturising and rejuvenating qualities of hemp oil… Read More »5 of the best natural sunscreens
Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell has recorded an exclusive new track for Friends of the Earth’s campaign “The Big Ask”. The track “Funeral Blues” was recorded at Europes’s first solar-powered recording studio in London, and it’s free to download here. Get… Read More »On EcoStreet’s eco-radar this week
I’m planning my family’s summer holiday. We want to stay in the UK to avoid flying, and will probably drive in our reasonably fuel-efficient Citroen Picasso diesel to make getting around easy, and we’d like to camp partly to keep… Read More »5 eco-friendly UK camping holidays with children
This is not as mysterious as it sounds. What I’m talking about is how to compost without a composter and how to compost without having a compost heap rotting in the corner of your garden. The method I’m suggesting is… Read More »How to be an undercover composter
In response to my previous post entitled 10 way to reduce food miles, Mary commented that: We’re so focused on food miles, which is important, but also another important way to make your diet more climate friendly is to significantly… Read More »How to have a greener diet
What on earth are food miles? They are the distance that your food travels from the grower to your plate, including travel to and from processor and retailer. Why should I want to reduce them? Because transporting your food long… Read More »10 ways to reduce food miles