Afternoon all and sundry.
After many happy years of gert lush long hair flapping about in any sort of a wind, I decided to have it all lopped off.
It was a decision I took a few weeks ago and I thought I’d just kick it around a bit before heading for the scissors to see if [...]
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Hair today, gone tomorrow and other things…
Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish Media, Rubbish celebrities, Rubbish events, Rubbish news, tagged Abby Maitland, BBC Somerset, Co-Op Magazine, Corsham Literary Festival, Eco-Rally, Herb UK, Primeval, Recycle More, Solar Technology, summer hairstyles 2009, The Book of Green, The Soil Association, Tracey Smith, Ways With Words Literary Festival on 16 June 2009 | 10 Comments »
How Do You Ban the Dreaded Plastic Bag?
Posted in Plastic rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish activism, Rubbish how-to's, tagged Ban The Plastic Bag, Fragile Earth Books, Marks and Spencer, Modbury, Morsbags, Pip Richards, Reinventing Rubbish, Sawdays, The Arts Council, The Sustainable Trust on 2 February 2009 | 8 Comments »
Ban the Plastic Bag is a small but very evocative read from the green shelf of Fragile Earth Books and essentially, it sets out a community action plan for a carrier bag-free world.
Every year 17 billion carrier bags are given away free in the UK; that means an average of 300 carrier bags for every [...]
Each One Really Does Count!
Posted in Electric rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish how-to's, tagged Climate Change, Landfill, NACOA, Recycling on 25 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m heading up to the big smoke on Monday, by train of course, to meet the guys at Each One Counts.
They run an on-line collection programme for mobile phones and ink jet cartridges and re-manufacture new cartridges for resale.
They also work in conjunction with a collective of charities including Battersea Dog and Cats Home, Cambodia [...]
Rubbish on the Radio: to entertain your ears this week
Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish on the Radio, Win free tickets to the Odeon, tagged Apple AM, competition, Credit Crunch, Essential Oils, Frost/Nixon, Lush, Milk, natural face masks, Underworld 3, Valkyrie, win tickets for the Odeon Cinema on 20 January 2009 | 7 Comments »
Happy days!
It’s mid-week – not that I’m wishing the week away – and it’s time for my regular trip to the Apple studios in Taunton to broadcast Slow Down and Green Up to a willing audience.
Today, between 10am and 1pm, I’ll be talking natural face masks with Jude from the local branch of Lush and [...]
Rubbish on the Radio: Non-Smelly Eco-Pits and Free Cinema Tickets
Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish on the Radio, Win free tickets to the Odeon, tagged Apple AM, cleaning, Essential Oils, Free cinema tickets, Lush, money saving tips, Odeon Cinema, Recycling, Sustainable Living, The Reader, The Spirit, Tracey Smith on 7 January 2009 | 10 Comments »
It’s Wednesday and time again for my weekly radio show, ‘Slow Down and Green Up’.
Between 10am-1pm today I’ll be skillfully lacing together a 3-hour extention of The Book of Rubbish Ideas, packed full of great music and chat showing you how to live more sustainbly!
Today I’ll also be talking to a very nice lady from [...]
Rubbish on the Radio – 17th December 10am-1pm
Posted in General rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish Media, Rubbish news, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged Apple AM, Coldplay, Oasis, radio, The Killers, Tracey Smith, Van Morrison on 17 December 2008 | 2 Comments »
‘Tis midweek again – yippee!
My regular rubbish readers will know I broadcast a radio show called ‘Slow Down and Green Up’ on Apple every Wednesday, between 10am and 1pm (GMT).
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 [...]
Philosophies of a Downshifter: thinking about the ‘good life’
Posted in Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish ideas, tagged Andre Gorz, consumerism, David Frayne, Downshifting, InterNational Downshifting Week, Kate Soper, work/life balance on 4 December 2008 | 1 Comment »
Earlier this year, I made a connection with a delightful gentleman by the name of David Frayne.
He was conducting research on one of my favourite subjects, downshifting, and I put him in touch with a few of my contacts.
Following on from my recent piece about the Menmuir family, I thought you might also be interested [...]
This ‘Woman’s Hour’ Has Arrived!
Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged alcohol, BBC Radio, children's charity, dependence, Jenni Murray, Lauren Booth, NACOA, radio, Radio 4, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, The National Association for Children of Alcoholics, Tracey Smith, Woman's Hour on 3 December 2008 | 2 Comments »
Dearest all, I’m in London and currently looking out of a window onto the world and the clock is ticking along, getting ever closer to 1am – eek!
I had a call late yesterday from Radio 4 (as you do) asking if I could just whip up to Town and go do Woman’s Hour? Well, as [...]
Looking for an Escape in the Country?
Posted in Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish ideas, tagged BBC, carbon footprint, Downshifting, Escape to the Country, Fritz Schumacher, InterNational Downshifting Week, Rachel Carson, Recycling, Silent Spring, Small is Beautiful, Sustainable Living, television on 2 December 2008 | 3 Comments »
At times, it can feel like a physical shift is the only way to break free of our shackles, but there’s a lot of preparation and planning involved in making an ‘actual’ move towards a simpler, happier life.
The Menmuir family were recently featured on the BBC’s Escape to the Country and I caught up with [...]
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