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First crop of the year from Allotment from sleepygreen 134 days old

Last nights dinner was new potatoes, broadbeans and strawberry's from the allotment, delicous!! (also with burgers made from veggie burger mix and carrots ...

One month remaining of 'not buying new' year! from sleepygreen 139 days old

Today I am oh so tempted by offers on organic hankies! But I have put them on my 'one year of not buying new' list and I realised that as of today there ...

Tescopoly from sleepygreen 141 days old

I think my previous posts show my dislike of supermarkets, but freeing yourself from them 100% is extremely difficult. We shop for vegetables at the ...

Purchases really are powerful! from sleepygreen 141 days old

I've been doing a bit of reading into what really is the 'best' thing to buy from an ethical / green standpoint. There were a few obvious ones, like ...

37 days left of my buy nothing new year from sleepygreen 145 days old

37 days left of my 'buy nothing new' year. The last year has gone very quickly. Recent new purchases have been a new power supply for our router as the ...

Ethical consumerism? from sleepygreen 151 days old

http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/home.aspx I've just gone through their list of household cleaning items, makeup and toiletries. Most of what I use rates ...

Vegan cooking from sleepygreen 167 days old

I will try and share some of my favourite recipes in this post, but most of them aren't written down as they have evolved since about 1992 when I first ...

What do you want to do green today? from sleepygreen 252 days old

Compact day 221, and counting! Yesterday I went to my first clothes swap, kind of a bring and buy, without the buying. The idea was to donate your unwanted ...

Repair, reduce, reuse, repurpose, recycle from sleepygreen 307 days old

Day 166 I had my exhaust fall off the car over summer, just after the MOT. Much to my BF disgust, I had it welded at a garage recommended by an old ...

Compacting weekend from sleepygreen 456 days old

[ ... ] I have bought fair trade coffee BOGOF from co-op, vegan wine and vegetable soap. I have baked vegan carrot cake, as we had the oven on for ...