Tag Archive | "environment"
Reusable bags
Australian company Onya manufactures a range of reusable bags including Weigh, a nylon mesh produce bag that we have reviewed on our site. Purchasing their produce bags means that you will never have to deal the annoying problem of useless plastic supermarket produce bags. They also make folding backpacks as well as biodegradable doggy doo [...]
Continue reading...Onya reusable produce bags
Monday, April 20, 2009
Who hates the plastic produce bags provided by supermarkets? They’re usually too small and flimsy to reuse and either end up in clogging your kitchen’s plastic bag collection area or go directly to the local landfill without passing go or collecting $200. But there are alternatives. I recently began using ‘Weigh’, Onya’s reusable produce bags and [...]
Continue reading...Michael Recycle: a book for children about recycling
Friday, April 3, 2009
“Michael Recycle is a superhero that helps towns to recycle. The story was nice. My favorite part was when they made green toilet paper.” Ernesto, 8. Michael Recycle, written by Ellie Bethel and illustrated by Alexandra Colombo, is about a recycling superhero who helps people clean up their act. The story starts in a town called [...]
Continue reading...Quirky books for kids
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Caren Trafford is a children’s book writer and publisher, whose environmental books have reached over 200,000 children in Australia, New Zealand, Korea, the UK, the US and Canada. They have been translated into Korean, Thai and Indonesian. She visits schools and libraries around the world to talk to students about what they can do to [...]
Continue reading...Guerrilla Gardening
Thursday, January 8, 2009
“Let’s fight the filth with forks and flowers” is the London-based Guerrilla Gardening rallying cry to action. GGers (guerrilla gardeners) locate neglected and dilapidated green spaces – from traffic islands to parks - and fill them with flower bulbs, seeds and plants. UK. www.guerrillagardening.org
Continue reading...UK Pesticides Campaign
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Georgina Downs runs the UK Pesticides Campaign to highlight the adverse health and environmental effects of pesticides. Downs has lived next to regularly sprayed fields for most of her life. For the last 7 years she has been making her case to the UK Government for a change in the regulations and legislation governing crop [...]
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Monday, April 20, 2009
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