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Apr 13 2008

10 Quick Ways to Shrink Your Waste

Household waste, that is *.

Here are 10 quick ways to reduce the amount of garbage that goes into your bins every week. Even if you’re not thinking about the environmental impact of doing this; it’ll be less to carry.

Overflowing trash can

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Written by Scott Bird · Categorized: Environment · Tagged: Charity, Environment, Herbs, Kitchen, outdoors, Recycle, Vegetables, Worm farm

Nov 11 2007

Is it more expensive to be green?

Yesterday I came across a comment to an environmental story which seems to sum up a very popular opinion – namely that it costs money to ‘go green‘. It said :

‘My biggest gripe with “going green” and all the nonsense that comes with it is that it costs so much money to be “green,” causing the larger majority of people to be unable to help out environmentally.’

Go greenPersonally, I don’t agree with this at all. In fact, living an environmentally-conscious lifestyle can actually save you money. How?

I’m glad you asked.
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Written by Scott Bird · Categorized: Environment · Tagged: Energy, Environment, Herbs, Kitchen, Save Money, Water, Worm farm

Nov 04 2007

5 Ways To Reduce Packaging In Your Grocery shopping

One of the simplest ways to be kind to both your wallet and the environment is to reduce the amount of packaging you collect. Ultimately, less wrapping equals lower costs for everything you buy. Definitely a good thing.

Plastic bagsHere are 5 simple ways to cut down packaging in one of the key areas of your life (mine, at least – I love to eat) – grocery shopping.
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Written by Scott Bird · Categorized: Environment · Tagged: Environment, Fish, Worm farm

Oct 21 2007

10 Ways To Make Your Halloween Environmentally-Friendly

Halloween (aka All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve) can be a great occasion. Of course, as with any major event there’s a bit of cleaning up involved the following morning.

Here are just a few of the ways (10, to be exact) you can make your Halloween more environmentally friendly, and spend more of that clean-up time in bed. Perfect.
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Written by Scott Bird · Categorized: Environment · Tagged: Environment, Fun, Halloween, Kids, Pumpkin, Recipes, Save Money, Worm farm

Oct 21 2007

Worm farming : What do Worms Eat?

Now that many of you are considering setting up your first worm farm, you may be wondering just what they eat. After all, isn’t that the point of the exercise – getting rid of stuff you don’t want, in return for nutritious soil for the garden?

Here’s a look at just what’ll it takes to make them happy. It’s easier than you might expect.

Worm farm
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Written by Scott Bird · Categorized: Environment · Tagged: Coffee, Dairy, Fruit, Kids, Kitchen, Pumpkin, Worm farm

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