RE: Your best 5 green tips?
No they arent animal friendly, still arent as far as Im aware even though they dont test on animals they dont meet the BUAV's standards.
The thing is, not everyone who wants to buy ethical wants to buy non animal tested but Im sure there was a thread on the veggie forum regarding this matter, just because a product says they dont test on animals doesnt mean the ingredients havent been and that their suppliers dont animal test.
Astonish cleaning products are really cheap and are approved by the vegan society, I buy mine in my local pound shop.
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RE: Your best 5 green tips?
my top 5 are:
Do not have a car. use public transport or walk.
changed all light bulbs to low energy ones
use the most energy efficient appliancesi can afford
draughtproof and insulate the whole house
recycle and re-use everything possible
that would have to be my top 5. there are others, but i think those are the most effective ones for me at least.
RE: Your best 5 green tips?
The thing is, look at the freak weather we are having here, in Greece people have died due to the heat, I do everything I can to reuse and recycle but its not just individuals who need to look at themselves, its countries such as China and USA where vast amounts of toxic chemicals are pumped into the atmosphere. I dont blame some people for saying whats the point even though I dont agree when you get people who dont practice what they preach.
David Cameron on a bike with aides driving behind him. Members of the Royal Family using helicopters to transport them to play a round of golf.
I also think that Gordon Browns so called green airport tax had nothing to do with trying to get people to stop using planes amd more to do with making more money for the treasury out of ordinary people.
Ive been doing green things for years but I do think ordinary folks are suffering from green overload while many people who have the money to make a real difference dont bother at all.
RE: Your best 5 green tips?
I do everything I can to reuse and recycle but its not just individuals who need to look at themselves, its countries such as China and USA where vast amounts of toxic chemicals are pumped into the atmosphere...Ive been doing green things for years but I do think ordinary folks are suffering from green overload while many people who have the money to make a real difference dont bother at all.
i think it is up to all of us as individuals to make as much of a difference as we can. this is too important to leave in the hands of politicians and business people. this is our world and it is up to us to protect it. by using our spending power wisely we can change the world. we keep governments in power. we keep big corporations in profit. we can put our money into ethical and environmentally friendly products and services to support them and to take money away from the businesses that are damaging the planet. we can make change happen by forcing the big corporations to change simply by refusing to spend our money with them until they do change. sorry, i don't mean to lecture or rant, but this is such an urgent issue now.
RE: Your best 5 green tips?
Im not disagreeing with you, the point that I was making is, what do we do about countries where the average person would need 5 planets if everyone lived the way they do?
What do we do about countries such as China and their output from nuclear reactors that is killing the planet.
Im sorry but Ive been doing green things for a very long time and have made more changes in the last year and so have family and friends, but I find some of this green bandwagon annoying.
For example, 2 of the large supermarkets have jumped on this bandwagon, heavily promoting green products, organic clothes, wash your clothes at 30 etc.
However, they neglect to mention that these clothes have been made in sweatshops by young kids who have been denied the most basic of human rights.
"Green" doesnt necessarily mean ethical. As I also posted above, some products such as Ecover look green and animal friendly. They actually dont meet BUAV standards yet many people will buy them thinking they not only do good for the environment but animals as well.
I dont buy Ecover products anymore and I wont buy environmentally friendly products from a certain supermarket who is currently championing the green cause due to other reasons.
The fact is, in the last 50 years we as humans with the I want this now, bigger, better and faster have done the damage to the planet. A couple of generations ago people werent wasteful, at least not on the scale we have been.
As I said, I live as green a life as I possibly can and will continue to do so but I do think some companies are trying to make money on the green issue yet in other ways are miserably failing suppliers and people who make the products.
Asda, organic clothing made in sweatshops. Tesco, environmentally friendly products that dont meet the standards for being cruelty free. Primark, who have signs in their stores saying that they belong to the ethical trading initiative when their workers work in some of the worst conditions.
Yet I saw a magazine article, indeed it was a green special, saying buy Primark, they are ethical.
If we dont have the proper facts and just not the spin, we arent going to be able to make any informed choices.