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 [...]
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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 »
Transition Town Initiatives in AAAAAAGGHHtion
Posted in Food rubbish, General rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish recipes, tagged community projects, fundraising ideas, Halloween, Honey Roasted Pumpkin Soup, photo guide, recipes, soup, step-by-step recipe, sustainable communities, The Magdalen Project, Thorncombe, Transition Town 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 [...]
The UK’s Economic Downturn Will Put Sustainable Living on the Rise
Posted in Rubbish ideas, Rubbish news, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged Transition Town, Sustainability, BBC, Charles Bean, Bank of England, shoplifting, alternative energy, solar power, wind power, Steorn, wind turbines, power crisis, Orbo, Demark on 26 August 2008 | 5 Comments »
Charles Bean, the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England warned today in a news report on the BBC, that the current global financial slowdown could “drag on for some considerable time”.
He was hopeful that growth would begin to pick up again next year and that inflation would also “drop back”, but he also understood [...]
Rubbish Videos – What’s Coming Soon?
Posted in Rubbish movies, tagged Add new tag, beat the credit crunch, British Antarctic Survey, Channel 5 News, Eco Balls, Essential Oils, Get Started with Compost, Get Started with Wormery, How to Grow Tomatoes, How to Make Flatbreads, How to Make Fresh Pizza, money saving tips, Rob Hopkins, Soapnuts, Soda Crystals, Sustainable Living, Transition Town, Work / Life Balance, You Tube 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 [...]
The Rubbish Solution’s in Transition
Posted in Rubbish activism, tagged Climate Change, Community, Obsolescence, Peak Oil, Rob Hopkins, Rubbish, Sustainability, Transition Town, Womble on 1 August 2008 | 4 Comments »
So what is a Transition Town (village, city, forest or island for that matter)?
In their own words, it is: – “A community working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question: “For all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?”
It sounds like a bit of a mouthful at first I know, but once you get your head around the concept it’s pretty straightforward and by heeding it’s recommendations, you can make an immediate and considerable difference to reducing your rubbish too!
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NOW AVAILABLE!
Every householder should have a copy of this guide to reducing household waste and stopping wasteful behaviour. Containing step by step projects, the book takes a top down guided tour through the average family home.
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