I’m back in the saddle after spending 3 days up ‘in the smoke’ (that’s London to you missus) attending www.ukaware.com.
I was helping Dave Hampton (the Carbon Coach) to host the speaker panels that were on Friday and Saturday and sat on a panel too on Saturday afternoon.
It was an amazing event – Mr OOFFOO himself, [...]
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A Bagging Update
Posted in Household rubbish, Rubbish activism, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish products, tagged Charity Shop, craft group, Morsbags, RSPCA, sewing on 13 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hi all, Only a shortie, it’s been a busy week here in the Smith Word Shed…
Friday morning I got together with my Crafty Group and we made our first batch of Morsbags!
I found a fabulous blue and white throw in the RSPCA charity shop that set me back the princely sum of £1.50!
We turned [...]
Rubbish on the Radio: For your listening pleasure this week
Posted in General rubbish, Household rubbish, Rubbish movies, Rubbish news, Rubbish on the Radio, Win free tickets to the Odeon, tagged Apple AM, beat the credit crunch, Downshifting, money saving tips, Recycling, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, Tracey Smith on 3 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s almost time to go dashing through the snow in my one horse open sleigh (ok, I lied, there’s no sleigh, but it would certainly come in handy this week) to broadcast Slow Down and Green Up on the radio.
Between 10am and 1pm GMT on Wednesday, I’ll be talking about all the things that have [...]
The Work/Life Balance: Don’t Have a Rubbish One (and some seriously sneaky peeks at what’s coming next…)
Posted in General rubbish, Household rubbish, Rubbish activism, Win a copy of The Book of Rubbish Ideas, tagged Alastair Sawday Publishing, Community Channel, Downshifting, InterNational Downshifting Week, Recycling, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, Tracey Smith, Win a copy of The Book of Rubbish Ideas on 24 December 2008 | 12 Comments »
Seasons Greetings to all,
It’s Christmas Eve and following a short trip to London, I’m now home in the bosom of my lovely family and preparing for a few days of non-work related fun!
For the past five months, with the kind assistance of dear Thomas, I’ve delivered a rubbish post-a-day to tantalise you, to tempt, to [...]
Farewell rubbish people (and don’t waste water)!
Posted in Household rubbish, Rubbish ideas, tagged Australia, Better Health Channel, grey water, water, water recycling, water saving, water shortage, water tanks, water waste on 19 December 2008 | 7 Comments »
Hi everybody. Thomas here is say that, well, this is the last time I’ll be here. For those of you who don’t know me (I have tried to keep a low profile), I’m the guy who originally put this blog together for Tracey on behalf of Sawday’s and have since been the behind the scenes [...]
Rubbish Interview: With Danny Carnegie, creator of UK Aware
Posted in General rubbish, Household rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish how-to's, tagged arctic explorer, Centre for Food Policy, Centre for Sustainable Design, Climate Change, COIN, Forum for the Future, Friends of the Earth, Futerra, Green Grants Machine, Greenpeace, London 21, Nathan Allen, Olympia, People and Planet, The Age of Stupid, The Energy Saving Trust, The Fairtrade Foundation, The Green Party, The Vegan Society, The Vegetarian Society, Together, Transition Town, Trevor Baylis, UK Aware, UKSIF, wind up radio, WWF, WWOOF on 16 December 2008 | 6 Comments »
As the founder of UK AWARE, 33-year old Danny Carnegie takes comfort in his perception that he’s just an average Joe. He plays football once a week, he loves snowboarding, he never wears matching socks, he doesn’t enjoy going to weddings, he comes from a one parent family, he lives in a three bed semi [...]
Your Rubbish Mission, Should You Choose to Accept it…
Posted in Electric rubbish, Food rubbish, General rubbish, Household rubbish, Paper rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish activism, tagged carbon footprint, composting, eco-education, gardening, Get Started with Compost, Landfill, Leftovers, Love Food Hate Waste, Plastic, Zero Waste Week on 12 December 2008 | 3 Comments »
Is to take part in my rubbish poll – please click below for the rest of the questions!
Where There’s Muck, There’s Brass
Posted in Household rubbish, Rubbish ideas, tagged beat the credit crunch, Credit Crunch, Daily Express, Downshifting, Rob Griffin, self-employment, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, Tracey Smith, work-at-home enterprises on 28 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Or maybe this title should read, ‘Where there’s rubbish, there’s dosh’ – potential dosh anyway.
Respected financial journalist Rob Griffin (yes, there are some) and I have been talking money for a few years. He pens pieces on finance and occasionally I slide in the odd quote from a downshifted perspective.
On Wednesday, the Daily Express published, [...]
Rubbish Q&A Day
Posted in Electric rubbish, Food rubbish, General rubbish, Household rubbish, Paper rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish Q&A, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish products, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged ACLM, aluminium cans, Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation, Alupro, Association for Contact Lens Manufacturers, Association for Organics Recycling, beat the credit crunch, Bokashi composting, carborexics, cardboard, cellophane wrappers, Click4Carbon, Community, community projects, composting, contact lens, cornstarch bottles, DEFRA, Dig For Victory, Dollond & Aitchison, eco-education, Eco-Schools, European Tissue Symposium, Freecycle, Get Started with Compost, glass jars, incineration, Jamie Oliver, Janey Lee Grace, Junkk, Junkk.com, knitting, Knitting Help, Letters for Change, making your own clothes, oestrogen soup, organic cotton, Organic-ally, Original Organics, Patient’s Returned Medicine Scheme, pet litter, Plastic, Polymer Recycling, Recycle, Recycle Now, Recycling, Recycling Expert, recycling video tape, SCRIB, Specsavers, Steel Can Recycling Information Bureau, steel cans, sustainable family, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, The Composting Association, The Rubbish Diet, The Times, Tracey Smith, University recycling schemes, unwanted medicine, vacuum bags, VeggiePets.com, Vision Aid Overseas, W. F. Denny, Waste and Resources Action Programme, Wellway Pharmacy, WRAP, YouTube on 10 November 2008 | 15 Comments »
A quick note from Thomas:
Hi everybody and welcome to the first Book of Rubbish Ideas Q&A day. Anybody out there who wants to leave Tracey a rubbish and sustainable living related questions may do so by leaving a comment under this post and Tracey will then get busy finding an answer for you. So [...]
The Rubbish Author’s Video Appeal
Posted in General rubbish, Household rubbish, Rubbish movies, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged Book of Rubbish Ideas, questions on rubbish, questions on sustainable living, Tracey Smith on 5 November 2008 | 6 Comments »
[Edit from Thomas - despite what Tracey says in this video, the Q&A will occur next Monday on the 10th of November. LOL!]
[Edit from Tracey - yes, what a silly old bat I am....I had the 17th in my head because I'd just been speaking to a producer about doing a [...]
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