Days 71 to 73 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living: when I explain how I buy and plant a bare-rooted currant bush to provide fruit in summer.
A few posts ago I wrote about the bounty that you can get from home-grown fruit and what I have done to get it.
I mentioned that: Continue reading
Day 65 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living: finding out how careful you need to be when avoiding plastic cups and straws in cafes.
Watching the first episode of Series 2 of the War On Waste reminded me that I didn’t get around to posting about a particular incident earlier this year.
I was meeting someone in a cafe and we decided to order drinks. It was a hot day, so I Continue reading
Day 38 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living, where I create a delicious and quick vegetarian meal with big environmental benefits from locally grown produce.
One of the best things about summer is the variety of vegetables available. So many different colours, flavours and textures!
Days 29, 30, 31 & 32 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living.
Summer in my garden means lots of fruit. And with so many plums at the moment, both on my trees and on the ground, the question arises: how to use them all so none go to waste? This is especially important given they now contain nutrients and water they have extracted from my soil and their come with zero food miles and thus, unlike anything I buy, zero damage to our climate from energy used to grow, transport and store them.
Source: Gill King, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0
Days 24 & 25 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living.
How do we get out of our ruts, the same ways of thinking and doing things?
I find consciously undertaking a challenge far more effective than just deciding to ‘try’ to change.
Telling other people that I am doing it – and then recording my experience takes it to a new Continue reading