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Got the Sniffles? Ditch a’Tissue….(bless you)…

Posted in Paper rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish products, tagged , , , , , , on 19 January 2009 | 16 Comments »

It’s that time of year again.
Actually, in my house, it’s been ‘that’ time of year since the kids broke up for their Christmas holidays!
There have been more coughs and colds going around the village than you could shake a snotty stick at and I’ve been rather dismayed to see one too many empty plastic wrappers [...]

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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 , , , , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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How To: Get Started With Composting

Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Looking for an Escape in the Country?

Posted in Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish ideas, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , 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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A Rubbish Spotlight on The Magdalen Project

Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish activism, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 15 September 2008 | 4 Comments »

The Magdalen Project (or TMP for short) is an eco-educational centre of excellence located on the outskirts of a little Somerset village called Winsham and today they held their annual Autumn Fair.
I spent the day there demonstrating how to make my Rubbish Flatbreads and signing copies of the book and had a fantastic but exhausting day!  [...]

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Recycle Your Plastic – Make Sex Fantastic

Posted in Rubbish ideas, tagged , , on 11 September 2008 | 7 Comments »

Now there’s a broad claim if ever I heard one…let me explain.
I did an interview with Radio Europe yesterday and the presenter was great fun to chat to and clearly in a frisky mood.
We talked through a few tips from the Kitchen chapter, we mulled over a few ideas for clothes swap parties and community [...]

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Rubbish Videos – What’s Coming Soon?

Posted in Rubbish movies, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 11 August 2008 | 2 Comments »

What better way is there to get a message across, than to actually show it to you?
I love making films and have a little stack of them being edited as we speak (well, write, but you know what I mean)…
Over the coming weeks, I’ll be showing you: -

How to make flatbreads [...]

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A Bit About the Book

Posted in Rubbish activism, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 28 July 2008 | 6 Comments »

So I went right through the house, room by room. I went inside and outside too, giving the garden, shed and garage a thorough prodding in the process, but it needed more. I had to explain why I felt we’d all arrived at ‘peak landfill point’ and despite many great, green initiatives, why there was still so much apparent apathy surrounding the issue of recycling and rubbish reduction in general.

The concepts I explored rolled over so many other topics and I suddenly found myself inadvertently writing a guide to solving credit crunch problems, combating addictions to shopaholism and even how to have better nookie by reducing ones levels of stress!

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