RE: Your best 5 green tips?
ORIGINAL: lilly43
3. Low energy lightbulbs -Don't like the light they give off, can't see a blooming thing to read- maybe eyes need testing again!
Hi Lilly,
I hear you on this one! We have them in the hall and my decor looks green instead of cream [:'(]
A friend recently gave me a Philips Ecotone energy saver that is 20w, but looks like 100w. it is a white coloured light, rather than that awful yellow hue and I have been really pleased with it.
The bulb is massive, but it certainly works and is much quicker to get to full brightness too.
You might like to look into getting one to try 🙂
Amethyst x
RE: Your best 5 green tips?
Hi amethystcave,
The easiyo system doesnt work with old yoghurt, you buy a sachet of the yoghurt mix and then add water and shake, you then leave it over night to set.
It is very yummy - according to my partner - im not a huge yoghurt fan!
RE: Your best 5 green tips?
Cool thread 😀
Successes in our household are:
1. Freecycling unwanted things. We've even managed to pass on blown down fence panels after the winds in January.
2. Another Freecycle one this. Polar Bear is pretty nifty with computers. Over the last 6 months or so he has been gathering spare computer parts from Freecyclers and other people he knows to build good quality PCs. To date, he's given away more than 10, and I know he has more in the pipeline. He tends to give away to those who would struggle to afford one.
3. Buying more local food. We've got a monthly farmer's market that sells good veg and lovely goats cheese. The name of the farm is hillarious . . . Wobbly Bottom!
4. Ecover products seemed to be hard to clean with - too much scrubbing involved. We've instead switched to buying natural cleaning products from http://www.naturalclean.co.uk . It was started by two mums in Hertfordshire who weren't happy with the effectiveness of your average enviro-friendly cleaning products, but wanted to avoid using traditional toxic products around their young children. Their orange degreaser is fab on the oven.
5. We've now managed to get into the habit of turning everything off at the socket at night, even satellite telly.
Could do better:
1. Want to find a local source of organic eggs. Was shocked to read that supermarket "organic" eggs have been laid by hens that started out as non-organic for the first 4 months of their life.
2. Want to get organic veg box, Abel & Cole seem good.
3. Compost our household waste
Cub
RE: Your best 5 green tips?
A few to add to the above, since I do much recycling, so won't repeat others' lists.
I save on fuel by:
1. Electricity: Either cooking job lots for the freezer and/or for food I like cold as much as hot, I cook double and have the second portion cold with mayonnaise or French dressing for lunch the next day. Aubergines and green beans make a lovely salad with olive oil, lemon juice and maybe olives and capers.
I make casseroles with extra liquid. Hot evening meal with baked potato, the extra liquid maybe gets diluted further with some Marmite and is tomorrow's soup!
Could improve on using less aluminium foil, which is to save washing up and less cleaning the oven. I simply throw the whole mess in the bin afterwards. Tsk tsk [sm=nono.gif]
2. Petrol: I plan round trips ... ega trip to the hairdresser combined with avisit to the supermarket, and call in at a farm shop on the way home, rather than making separate trips and wasting time and fuel.
Here's one for the gardeners:
ORIGINAL: holistichobbit
3) Growing 'big veggies' - can't get the hang of carrots at all but definately providing a service for hungry carrot fly.
This prompted a thought about marigolds and garlic, butchecked online for others... try companion planting:
[link= http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/companion.htm ]http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/companion.htm[/link]
Holistic
RE: Your best 5 green tips?
Here's mine (and boyfriends)
1. BoyF bikes to work every day, (even when it snowed)
2. Have 2 compost bins, havent used any of the compost yet as I have only lived here for 10 mths.
3. Shop at local farmshop.
4. Use freecycle.
5. swap home grownveggies with friends.
Need to do better
1. Not buy more food than I need and end up throwing things out that have gone off.
2. Use the car 2 much.
3. Start looking into growing moreveggies and sort a veg patch out in the garden.
Thanks for sharing all your tips everyone