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Recycling

Eden Project chicken coops

January 21, 2010
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The Omlet Eglu finally has some serious competiton. The Eden Project is selling its own plastic hen houses made entirely out of recycled plastic. They are the quick, easy and environmentally-friendly way to start keeping chickens.

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Eco answers

November 20, 2008

How environmentally-damaging is your cycle ride to work? How long will it take a home wind turbine to pay for itself? The New Scientist knows.

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Recycle your Christmas cards

January 6, 2008

Tonight is 12th night, so it’s time to take down your decorations and cards. That leaves you with the question of what to do with all those greetings now the festive season is over.
In theory you could drop them into your cardboard recycling bag, but it would be far better to have them recycled by [...]

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Frugal Christmas tree

December 28, 2007

Christmas branch
Rather than buy a tree this year, we headed out into the woods to pick out own. It would have been wrong to hack one down, of course, so we walked through the trees until we found a pile of cut branches drying by the path, and dragged one home.
It’s spent the last couple [...]

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Recycling too far

November 23, 2007

I’m all for reusing where possible, and grey water is a big waste area, but I don’t think I could bring myself to organise the plot’s water requirements along the lines suggested by this book.
I found it in Foyles at lunchtime and it’s very comprehensive, even going to great lengths to explain the kind of [...]

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