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Posts Tagged ‘composting’
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 »
How To: Get Started With Composting
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, tagged beat the credit crunch, composting, Downshifting, gardening, gardens, Get Started with Compost, Landfill, Leftovers, money saving tips, Phil Gamble, Recycling, Sustainable Living on 11 December 2008 | 7 Comments »
Recently, I featured a piece by horticultural expert, lecturer and all round nice bloke, Phil Gamble…
Today Phil explains the rudimentary basics of composting, how it works and what it does.
In my opinion, wintertime is the perfect time to get a compost heap going. There are so many delicious vegetables to fill up your plates and [...]
My Top Ten Tips for Downshifting Success – Part 1 (Tips 1-5)
Posted in Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, tagged beat the credit crunch, composting, Credit Crunch, Downshifting, Downshifting Manifesto, Freecycle, InterNational Downshifting Week, National Downshifting Week, Recycling, shopping on 24 November 2008 | 10 Comments »
Some years back my family and I undertook a major downshift.
It was truly life changing and it got me rooted on the road to simple, green living.
Consequently, I started an awareness campaign called National Downshifting Week (now InterNational) and I wrote a great many articles on the subject.
Recently, I’ve been plotting and planning events for [...]
How To: Get Down and Dirty Together, Creating Community Soil
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish activism, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged beat the credit crunch, Cannington College, Compost Outing, composting, gardening, gardens, Get Started with Compost, horticulture, Paul Atterbury, Phil Gamble, RHS Chelsea Flower Show, The Antiques RoadShow on 12 November 2008 | 2 Comments »
‘Bigger, better food is waiting in your compost heap.’
I recently caught up with a delightful man and a horticultural expert, Phil Gamble.
Trained at Cannington College, Somerset in it’s heyday, Philip’s background includes two posts as Head Gardener and ten years on the lecturing staff at Kingston Maurward College, Dorchester. He’s an established freelance lecturer and [...]
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 [...]
Dive Into Your Bins During Energy Saving Week
Posted in Electric rubbish, Food rubbish, Household rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish activism, tagged B & Q, Boots, BSM, Climate Change, Comet, composting, energy, energy saving clock, energy saving light bulbs, Energy Saving Trust, Energy Saving Week, money saving tips, PG Tips, RAC, Recycling on 21 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This year’s Energy Saving Week is being celebrated right now, between the 20th and 26th October. 2008.
Energy Saving Week is designed to promote positive action among householders through a concentrated programme of events across the UK, via a range of partner organisations and the Energy Saving Trust’s network of regional advice centres.
The aim is to [...]
Fancy trying The Rubbish Diet?
Posted in Food rubbish, General rubbish, Household rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish ideas, tagged Bokashi composting, composting, eBay, Freecycle, Get Started with Compost, Karen Cannard, LETS, Love Food Hate Waste, My Zero Waste, plastic bagsags, Recycle Now, Recycling, tetrapaks, The Rubbish Diet, veg box, Zero Waist, Zero Waste Week on 16 October 2008 | 2 Comments »
We’re lucky enough to have another guest poster today so thank you to Karen Cannard (who you may know better as Almost Mrs Average) from the The Rubbish Diet blog for today’s piece.
“I am so frazzled at the edges” pleaded the voice at the end of the phone.
“I’ve hardly had any sleep. Spent yesterday in London. Got home to [...]