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The Economical Environmentalist: Book giveaway

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  • I will buy less "for the time being" junk and invest in more life-time pieces, ie furniture, clothing, kitchenware.
  • I run a local Cub Scout group and we are going to be "attempting" to grow veg this year so hopefully they'll all go home with a potato/carrot and tell their parents that they want to try it at home to!!
  • Poppycat1
    Poppycat1 Posts: 377 Forumite
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    I am going to stop using the car to do the school run. Going to use the veggies that I grow at the allottment. Use local shops as much as possible.
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  • We are quite obsessed with being green. We already compost/recycle everything we can - although not as good as the people last week on the TV with 1 bin per year! We never chuck out food - all the leftovers get made into something or into the dog!

    This year my partner is putting up turbines on his family farm and we are putting PV panels on the roof which will get the new feedin tariff.

    I'm having a big clearout and instead of the bin I am doing my best to ebay/gumtree so it gets reused. This is actually quite time consuming as it's all small amounts of money but I feel good about doing my bit.

    It's getting to the stage where I feel it's morally wrong to waste anything!!!
  • I'm going to start emailing the parents of my Brownie group, rather than printing out lots of letters all the time.
  • I am going to try and use the train and not the car.
  • I have signed up to car sharing to reduce my carbon emissions and cut petrol costs
  • Murrell
    Murrell Posts: 520 Forumite
    We are going to move to a smaller place where work, shopping and sport activities are within walking distance so we can ditch the car for good.
  • pomona
    pomona Posts: 21 Forumite
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    I am going to grow lots more fruit and veg and fix my bike so I can actually use it.
  • tinkerbel
    tinkerbel Posts: 1,795 Forumite
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    I'm going to try and cut down the miles I drive
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