With a limited supply of freshwater on board ships and submarines, seamen have over the years developed the "navy shower" to have an effective wash while saving water. As we all become more conscious of water saving in everyday life, should we all try a navy shower? Here's how to have one...
Related stories: More water saving tips
Continue reading >>
Advocates for Animals is one of Britain’s leading animal protection organisations. They campaign against animal cruelty in all its ugly forms. Which brings me, unfortunately, on to the topic of battery hens. We all know how cruel the treatment of chickens is on factory farms, yet supermarkets still support the practise of keeping chickens in tiny cages with barely room to move. One of Tesco’s egg suppliers has been exposed by Advocates for Animals for keeping up to eight chickens in wire cages that are legally only permitted to hold a maximum of five. It is bad enough that chickens are kept in cages for their entire life, unable to stand up properly or to stretch their wings or legs, but to cram even more into these tiny cages is criminal.
Advocates for Animals has launched its ‘Go Cage-Free’ campaign to try to persuade Tesco to stop selling eggs from caged hens. The campaign will focus on educating the public about the plight of caged hens and visiting Tesco stores in 16 towns to spread their message.
[Via Naturalmatters]
Continue reading >>
Outgoing Environment minister Ben Bradshaw has resurrected the old cloth versus disposable debate yet again by using the flawed 2005 Environment Agency report as an excuse to cut funding to real nappy initiatives.
As it was widely pointed out at the time, the comparison was hardly scientific as so many frankly ludicrous assumptions about real nappy usage had been built into the report. As most real nappies users would agree, and < href=“http://environment.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,,2117860,00.html”>Joanna Moorhead in the Guardian has wearily pointed out yet again, people don’t usually have more than about 25 real nappies, they don’t boil wash or tumble dry them, let alone iron them, and they use them for two or more children.
Continue reading >>
Are you into personal change? Are you looking to be greener? Eco-friendlier? Making yourself a better person? Well, if I don’t sound hippy and American enough for you, then you might want to check out a great eco podcast website recently launched. Living Green from PersonalLifeMedia is all about giving you the lifestyle tips and info you need to make yourself a more environmentally friendly person. Hosted by conservation expert Meredith Medland (I mean you have to be an ecologist with a name like that), you’ll get latest hot interviews, cool green-living tips and warm debate on the latest issues.
[via shinyshiny]
Related stories: Green mag with Pazzaz | Sustainable living courses
Continue reading >>
As Gordon Brown settles into his new office British citizens can have their say on a variety of ethical issues at the Downing Street website. Here you can find petitions promoting animal welfare, energy conservation and a host of other green issues.
You can even support some less familiar campaigns. For example, Hugh Bernard wants fruit trees and other edible plants in city centres. Follow the jump to read more about how you can have you say.
Continue reading >>
Do your shopping on the net and do some good. Give or Take.com creates income streams for charities simply by people doing their usual shopping on the internet. The online shopping centre brings together over 500 leading online stores, including familiar high street names such as John Lewis, Marks and Spencer, WHSmith, Waterstones and Currys, and 50 charity partners, including Shelter, Samaritans and RNID.
Related stories: ClickNow charity search engine | Ebay’s fairtrade hub
Continue reading >>
Now this is bright thinking. ClickNow is an innovative search engine that allows people to donate to charity without it costing them or their charities a penny. So how does this work? ClickNow is an ordinary search engine, but it donates 50 per cent of the money made through advertising back to its partner charities. Working with Ask.com, search results are provided from the major search engines, but whenever someone searches the internet using the ClickNow facility, the company receives money from the search engines and then makes the donation automatically.
Related stories: Donate charity by eating Ben & Jerry’s | By Nature ethical wedding list donates 10% to charity
Continue reading >>
digg this | del.icio.us this
| 
Stumble It!
