Category: ethical shopping
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Hugh’s Chicken Run
DOCUMENTARY: Hugh’s Chicken Run On: Channel 4 (4) Date: Monday 7th January 2008 Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long) An anytime alert is set for 15 minutes before the programme starts Hugh’s Chicken Run launches the The Big Food Fight, a season of programming which aims to raise awareness and encourage debate about food…
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On the road to nowhere…
So today a predication appears to have come closer to truth. The planet’s ability to soak up CO2 is being compromised. As we pump ever more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere the carbon sinks we rely on to at least slow the onslaught of climate change are acting chaotically. Less CO2 is being absorbed by…
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Switching energy suppliers
Oh well… another promise of raised energy prices in the news. On the one hand I feel that energy prices have to rise if we are to reduce consumption, and on the other I don’t fancy paying if I can avoid it (only human after all). So I’ve just gone to http://www.uswitch.com/ and reselected suppliers.…
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Sit down, rest your tyred bum…
In my earlier post about the Priddy weekend I mentioned that Miss had bought a set of garden furniture, made in Thailand out of old tyres. Well here they are! larger pic They’re really comfortable, rugged and not at all bad to look at – which you might not think when you consider their…
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Awen Pendant
For years I’ve worn a pentacle, overlaid on a tree of life, as a mark of my path. However, as the wheel’s turned I’ve become less inspired by the pentagram than the Awen; that triple ray denoting inspiration in the Druid tradition. I wasn’t able to find one on general sale that really did it…
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Saving the Planet without Costing the Earth
Just finished this book, ‘Saving the Planet without Costing the Earth’, by the complicatedly named Donnachadh McCarthy (a Cixen, as I once was). I bought it on the back of the docu-drama series ‘It’s not easy being green’, on BBC TV recently. I expected it to be a simple list of things that one can do…
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Buying into ethics
So Body Shop is to be bought by L’Oreal. As ethical chocolate producer Green and Blacks was bought up last year by Cadbury Schweppes. Ethical shopping is becoming big business, and big business is watching, waiting and waging a successful takeover campaign. Perhaps it’s me, but those two events seem to reflect a desire to…
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Dying for Fur – Inside the Chinese Fur Trade
I have a pretty strong stomach. I’ve not been in active service in the forces, and so have mercifully not seen much in terms of blood and gore beyond one car accident I happened upon. Nevertheless, I have a pretty strong stomach. But I happened upon a link today relating to the Fur Industry in…
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Coffee, a minor rant!
I am practically in despair of finding a coffee shop that can make full and effective use of the industry grade machinery in their control! No matter how shiny and polished, how many levers and knobs, the dials, spouts and grinders, what they dispense seems always to come out looking and tasting like weak instant.
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