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How To: Make Honey Roasted Pumpkin Soup – a photo guide

Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish recipes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 31 October 2008 | 11 Comments »

If you’re planning on carving out a pumpkin to celebrate Halloween, here’s a great way of turning the leftover scoopings into something utterly delicious to warm you up when you get home.
It’s best served hot, with chunks of tasty bread for dipping and mopping.
Pumpkins will be around for a few weeks more and they’ll [...]

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Transition Town Initiatives in AAAAAAGGHHtion

Posted in Food rubbish, General rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish recipes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 31 October 2008 | 4 Comments »

Ok, just in case you don’t get my tenuous stab at a Halloween joke, that should be read as, ‘Action’, in a frightened and scary voice…
(All right, all right, it wasn’t that bad!)
As reported here recently, my little village is proudly on the ‘Mulling it Over‘ list of Transition Towns and our monthly meetings to [...]

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Click4Carbon’s Top Rubbish Tips

Posted in General rubbish, Household rubbish, Paper rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish activism, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish news, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 30 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »

 
I had a lovely chat with a very busy and gorgeous Claire Russell, founder of the recently launched environmental website Click4Carbon, who were featured on Sky News earlier this week.
Here she talks about the concept behind her innovative website and explains why she believes those little things in life really can make a big difference [...]

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You Great Knit!

Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish movies, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 29 October 2008 | 12 Comments »

Where is your Nan when you need her most?
Unfortunately, my lovely Nan passed away many years ago, but I remember her voice, laughter and cuddles like she was here only yesterday.
She taught me so much; how to be patient, how to cook, how to grow a few things in the garden, how to enjoy your [...]

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More on Norfolk’s “Waste Free Week”

Posted in Food rubbish, Household rubbish, Rubbish activism, Rubbish news, tagged , , , , , , on 29 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In yesterday’s post I mentioned that I wanted to get Kate McFarland’s thoughts on the story in the Norfolk Evening News about Norfolk’s “Waste Free Week”, as she is the Assistant Waste Partnership & Strategy Officer at Norfolk County Council and a regular trashy pundit. And true to form, she quickly got back to me and this is what she had [...]

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Norfolk Steps Up to the Rubbish Mark

Posted in Food rubbish, Household rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish activism, Rubbish news, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 28 October 2008 | 3 Comments »

Whilst trawling the Net for my usual daily hit of rubbish news, I came across an interesting piece by Kate Scotter who’d penned a piece for the Norfolk Evening News.
It asked, ‘Can you go a week without rubbish?‘
As we have regular readers and contributors from that part of the world, namely the lovely Karen Cannard, [...]

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It’s Time for Toilet ‘Re-Training’

Posted in Rubbish products, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 27 October 2008 | 2 Comments »

With the monopoly money figures of dodgy bank dealings now turning into real money that we taxpayers will be footing the bill for, one way or another people are heartily sick of seeing their money go ‘down the pan’.
A few years back whilst idly watching the Dragons Den, I discovered a clever little device that [...]

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It Makes Home Scents!

Posted in Plastic rubbish, Rubbish products, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 24 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It’s always great to hear from a friend with some hot eco-news, especially when it recognises their hard work and commitment to spreading the good, green word.
Today, I received a note from the lovely Judith Mathias, co-founder of Home Scents and Baby Scents up in Northumberland.
Alongside husband John, she produces a range of natural products [...]

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Who Would You Give the Landfill Prize to?

Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish activism, Rubbish celebrities, tagged , , , , , , on 23 October 2008 | 9 Comments »

[EDIT - HOT NEWS JUST RECEIVED FROM JOHN NAISH!]
I came across the Landfill Prize earlier this year whilst chatting to my good friend author Carl Honoré, who’d been signed up as a judge; incidentally, he’s also one of my celebrity case studies in the book.
The Landfill Prize was the brainchild of John Naish, author of another [...]

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How To: Make Crafty Rubbish Cards

Posted in Household rubbish, Paper rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, tagged , , , , , , , , on 22 October 2008 | 9 Comments »

Oh, I’ve been a naughty chick today.
I really should have been tap, tap, tapping away on the keyboard, but my dear chum Izzy twisted my arm and convinced me I needed to accompany her on a visit to a couple of local craft shops instead – so I did…
We hung up our usual weekday workie [...]

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