This hand powered chainsaw from Green Mountain Products really is for the hard core green gardener! Obviously you wouldn't take on a huge project with it, but for small jobs in the garden it really is perfect. It uses no fossil fuel, no electricity, just good old elbow grease. It's basically a couple of bits of sturdy rope with a carbon chainsaw 'blade' in the middle, and a little weight bag on one side which allows you to throw the rope over a branch so you can start cutting it. The main problem with the system seems to be that you have to stand under the branch you're trying to cut down, which is not the most sensible place to be! If you do get the hang of it I'm sure it's a very satisfying feeling, and certainly much quieter than traditional chainsaws!
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I just got a dog and it started me thinking about all the things I'll need, and if there are eco-friendly options. The first thing that came to mind was the poop scoop bags. I go out of my way to avoid plastic bags every minute of the day, so there's no way I'll be scooping my dog's poop up in a bag and adding it to landfill. There are several types of biodegradable bags available, including 
Britannia Building Society are supporting the 
We all know organic food is good for our bodies, but good for our brains? If the people at 
Thanks to ten years of hard work and dedication by some of Britain's top botanists the rarest flower on these shores, the Lady's Slipper orchid, may again flourish in our green and pleasant land. The flower was declared extinct in 1917, after it was dug up and collected by the Victorians, who were obsessed with beautiful orchids, but a single flower was discovered by a botanist in 1930 and since then it has been more heavily guarded than the crown jewels. The location of the solitary orchid is top secret, but is rumoured to be somewhere on the North Yorkshire Moors. 
Sometimes it's the simplest inventions that are the best and Alex Worswick, a Devon University student, has come up with the novel idea of inserting seeds into lolly pop sticks so instead of throwing them away at the end of the treat, kids can plant the stick and be rewarded with plants and herbs.
For those of us concerned about food miles, there's wonderful news this month as good old British asparagus is back on the menu. During May and June you can turn your back on South American incomers, and opt instead for home grown green goodness!
It's that time of year again when the fields are ablaze with brilliant yellow rapeseed flowers, and at our local farmer's market on Saturday I got to try some cold pressed rapeseed oil first hand. 
With many local authorities now offering a recycling service along with the refuse collection, we all need to make sure we are recycling our organic waste, such as fruit and vegetable scraps as well as the other more obvious things, like glass, paper, metal…etc. The only problem is, where to keep the stuff. I used to use a little bin by the sink, but after a few days the bin would smell rancid and the whole kitchen would reek of rotting vegetables – not pleasant I can assure you. The only thing I could do was take the bin outside and keep going outside to the bin throughout the day. Again, not a pleasant prospect for someone as lazy as I am. I was torn between doing the right thing and the easier option of putting everything in the bin. Obviously I did the right thing! 
If you're sick of flushing all those valuable nutrients down the loo and want to reclaim them as your own, then you could spend a lot of money on a composting toilet by one of the increasing specialist companies, or you could follow the likes of 
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