Posts Tagged ‘environmental’

Bath Positive Living Group

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Bath Positive Living GroupEvery mon­day evening (except bank hol­i­days)
The Cof­fee Lounge
Man­vers Street Bap­tist Church.
7.00pm — 10pm
£5

There is no need to book. Just pop along when­ever there is a talk of inter­est. It’s a Lovely, friendly and relaxed atmos­phere, every­one is wel­come. Refresh­ments included.

For­mat for the evenings:
Wel­come and intro­duc­tion 7.30pm (tea and bis­cuits avail­able on arrival)
Topic of the evening 7.45pm
Social and (more) refresh­ments 9.00pm
For full details of all upcom­ing talks please visit positivelivinggroups.co.uk/BATH.html

Or visit the  inter­ac­tive online com­mu­nity ‘Pos­i­tive Liv­ing Groups Net­work’ at PLGN.co.uk

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Tree planting day – Bath

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Inner peace on earth by plant­ing trees.
Sat­ur­day 20th March 2010
From 10am to 12pm

Con­tact and info: Boris 07909089795
boris.vogrinec@gmail.com

At Weston Park West (Old Archery field)

From Royal Vic­to­ria Park you fol­low Weston Road to Weston Ln, at Snap­drag­ons Nurs­ery turn right to Weston Park (near Royal United Hospital)

We are going to plant 200 young trees.

If you wish bring small board with your name on and plant “name tree”.

Please, wear safety boots and please bring spare spades with you if you have.

Please bring bis­cuits and drink and we are going to share all between us.

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organic vs food miles vs packaged vs seasonal

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

fruit-sampler-thumb5242840A few years ago I did a nat­ural nutri­tion course with The Col­lege of Nat­ural Nutr­tion. It was of course very pro organic food. But it also placed great empha­sis on eat­ing with the seasons.

Being the lit­tle earth lov­ing crea­ture I am, I now find myself con­fused when I’m in the fruit and veg depart­ment and it can take me ages to pick my purchases:

The organic apples I’m look­ing at are in a plas­tic non biodegrad­able bag.
So I must surely buy the in-organic  loose apples.

The organic lemons are in a net bag and they’re from South Africa
So I have to get loose  in-organic ones from Spain.

I want to eat with the sea­sons.
But what do I do when win­ter sets and it’s so ‘nor­mal’ to boost my Vit C with oranges and lemons, which will no doubt come all the way from SA.

And now some­one has told me about David Bel­lamy who reck­ons global warm­ing is ‘a load of pop­py­cock!’ so maybe food miles don’t make a dif­fer­ence after all.

I’m very confused.

How do you go about choos­ing your fruit and veg?

http://www.natnut.co.uk/

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World Carfree Day 2009 – September 22

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Thought I’d just post this in case you’ve not seen it any where else. Leave your car at home on Sept 22. Try pub­lic trans­port, walk, run, cycle, hop, skip…just leave your wheels in the drive.

http://www.worldcarfree.net/wcfd/

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Live my life at ChickenOut.tv

Friday, August 21st, 2009

I’ve just been sent the email below.  A cam­paign well worth supporting.

Over 39 days — the piti­fully short life of a typ­i­cal fac­tory –farmed chicken — we’re spread­ing the free-range mes­sage online and in 11 cities across the UK.

chicken_outUntil the 17th Sep­tem­ber, you can fol­low the short life of an inten­sively reared chicken via our  blog at chickenout.tv. See for your­self just what mil­lions of fac­tory farmed chick­ens endure, liv­ing just 39 days between hatch­ing and slaugh­ter in a typ­i­cal over­crowded, bar­ren and win­dow­less shed.

Read the lat­est blog entry here»
http://www.chickenout.tv/39-day-blog.html

Watch a 30 sec­ond trailer here»
http://www.chickenout.tv/why-chicken-out.html

How you can help?

Please encour­age oth­ers to join our cam­paign for a free-range future:

“We need thou­sands of sig­na­tures to con­vince super­mar­kets, farm­ers, gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tors and any­one else involved in this unac­cept­able busi­ness that they must change”.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Chicken Out! on tour
http://www.chickenout.tv/39-day-blog/39-day-tour.html

We’re hit­ting the road over the next 39 days to take the free –range mes­sage out to  11 loca­tions across the UK. Join us at a town near you and meet the team — and our own free-ranging chicken — as we spread the word.

P.S. Please con­sider  mak­ing a small dona­tion http://www.chickenout.tv/donate-to-the-campaign.html to help cover the cost of tak­ing our mes­sage across the UK.

Join our Face­book group http://www.facebook.com/chickenout.tv

Fol­low us on Twit­ter http://twitter.com/chickenout_tv

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