New Forum - Save Cash & The Planet?

metherer

Count me in for a green board. I agree wtih te other posters that an ethical board may be swallowed by others, however Green isn't.

Its a place you could debate the merits of enery providers versus having a turbine in your garden and solar panels etc. Green & Money saving.

Metherer
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Queenie

Haven't had time to give this much thought but, my knee jerk reaction is that these issues are already very much related to the OS forum.

If you take away composting/other recycling aspects/local produce sourcing etc., - OS will become nothing more than a recipe collection forum.

Yes, old style really does encompass all those things. As little as 50yrs ago, recycling, composting, energy issues, were all a natural consideration and a way of life - it's only the explosion in consumerism of the past 50yrs that has really turned things full circle and highlighted the need to return to the OS lifestyle ways and means which are very much eco-friendly *and* money saving. I think the WWII reference in the description is very much a misnomer, but a previous attempt to change the description only caused controversy and so the WWII reference remains.

I think it's very sad that in the past year or so, many topics which were very much "old style" issues have been switched, swapped and confused to the point where the whole OS board has altered from it's humble beginnings to such a degree where we are now at a stage of thinking a "green" board is a necessary and innovative idea.

I don't wish to offend anyone here with my views, as I said this is a knee jerk reaction - but once upon a time, "discussing" green issues was ok on OS, then it became un-ok in some instances and discussions of that calibre were moved to the "Discussions" forum, where they died a death; Boot Fair discussions (in the context of recycling) were then deemed non-OS and have now been given over to Ebay and other Auctions; Charity Shop shopping has been sent off to Shop but Don't Drop and now there's a suggestion that composting and recycling be discussed in yet another board??? Where are we to put HM cleaners and beauty products? OS or Green? How about HM gifts? Do we then have a MS HM crafts board too?

Please don't take me the wrong way - I'm all for green issues, but I truly did think OS was the place for that. Like I say, some "traditional" topics that were a part of OS have already been taken away - if we keep taking away and fragmenting topics from OS ... you're going to end up with nothing more than a recipe board and quite frankly, the Internet is already full of dedicated recipe websites.

Weymouth_Man

metherer wrote:

Count me in for a green board. I agree wtih te other posters that an ethical board may be swallowed by others, however Green isn't.

Its a place you could debate the merits of enery providers versus having a turbine in your garden and solar panels etc. Green & Money saving.

Metherer
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What a great suggestion having a green board for items like Solar Panels, Wind Turbines, I would certainly add one of my previous threads currently on BBC2.

I’m not saying we all have a stream running through our back garden, or acre’s of land to site wind turbines, but for anyone that has not seen this program, have a look.

Please see the attached link.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=181709
:hello: :grouphug: :think: :idea:

Baileys_Babe

I'm very interested in green issues but I think they should be prt of OS

wishingonastar_3

Queenie wrote:

Haven't had time to give this much thought but, my knee jerk reaction is that these issues are already very much related to the OS forum.

If you take away composting/other recycling aspects/local produce sourcing etc., - OS will become nothing more than a recipe collection forum.

Yes, old style really does encompass all those things. As little as 50yrs ago, recycling, composting, energy issues, were all a natural consideration and a way of life - it's only the explosion in consumerism of the past 50yrs that has really turned things full circle and highlighted the need to return to the OS lifestyle ways and means which are very much eco-friendly *and* money saving. I think the WWII reference in the description is very much a misnomer, but a previous attempt to change the description only caused controversy and so the WWII reference remains.

I think it's very sad that in the past year or so, many topics which were very much "old style" issues have been switched, swapped and confused to the point where the whole OS board has altered from it's humble beginnings to such a degree where we are now at a stage of thinking a "green" board is a necessary and innovative idea.

I don't wish to offend anyone here with my views, as I said this is a knee jerk reaction - but once upon a time, "discussing" green issues was ok on OS, then it became un-ok in some instances and discussions of that calibre were moved to the "Discussions" forum, where they died a death; Boot Fair discussions (in the context of recycling) were then deemed non-OS and have now been given over to Ebay and other Auctions; Charity Shop shopping has been sent off to Shop but Don't Drop and now there's a suggestion that composting and recycling be discussed in yet another board??? Where are we to put HM cleaners and beauty products? OS or Green? How about HM gifts? Do we then have a MS HM crafts board too?

Please don't take me the wrong way - I'm all for green issues, but I truly did think OS was the place for that. Like I say, some "traditional" topics that were a part of OS have already been taken away - if we keep taking away and fragmenting topics from OS ... you're going to end up with nothing more than a recipe board and quite frankly, the Internet is already full of dedicated recipe websites.

queenie, thats exactly what i wanted to say, i agree with you. you just put it so well.