Ethics Trading

Remember Bad Tesco? Well, I’m still narked at the plastic bottles for lovely olive oil but I haven’t got round to investigating alternatives and until I do then I have no real cause for complaint really do I? Erm especially as I think Lidl still do olive oil in glass and I haven’t been in there in months because I don’t want to add more driving to my shopping. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s taught us a lot of lessons though.

Last weekend we discovered the boiler had broken and we were without hot water or any form of house heating. It was suddenly very cold and felt just a bit damp. So we called an engineer out and he was with us the same day. Read the rest of this entry »

I like cooking, and I prefer Olive oil or sunflower oil to blended oils or generic vegetable oils. I do most of my shopping in my local market and in local shops. I have a fabulous local cheese shop and local butchers as well. Read the rest of this entry »

My good friends over at My Zero Waste had a dilemma earlier this year – what to do with a cracked toilet seat…..

Well, what would you do? Read the rest of this entry »

If we, as a planet, can restrict global warming to 2 deg C then we stand a good chance of saving ourselves and the Earth’s eco-system as it is now. If we let it go above that and beyond 3 deg C then there’s pretty much no chance. Read the rest of this entry »

I recently stumbled across this via facebook, it’s amazing what you can wander across online.  Anyway, I got myself sent a review copy and I’ve read it twice now so I’d better get on with writing the review…. Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve all had them, we can see piles and piles of them in the shops. A thin card sleeve with this season’s popular film characters on and inside that a moulded plastic tray meant to hold tiny slivers of poor quality chocolate that all fall out and lurk at the bottom of the box.

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Who’s got into twitter then?

I’ve been there for ages, well it feels like ages, I’ve lost count of how long I’ve been twittering. You can find me as EthicsTrading there. If you’re following already then Hi! If not, then why not? Read the rest of this entry »

I get several delivered every year. There’s the big yellow one, the thinner BT one – usually blue, and the more local Thompson’s one. All of them tell me pretty much the same thing, oh and so does the internet.. Read the rest of this entry »

Courtesy of The Little Green Blog.

The main ingredients of The Little Green flea clear up recipe are essential oils, water and a few drops of washing up liquid – eco friendly of course. Soap nuts have an insect repellent property so you could use soap nut solution instead of washing up liquid. Read the rest of this entry »