'Community Gardening' at Salisbury Hotel
June 13, 2012 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Ten ways to use less oil - from Greenpeace
In the wake of the ongoing catastrophe of the Gulf oil spill, lots of
people have been asking how they can reduce their oil consumption in
their daily lives.
Here's our top ten:
1. Carpool, cycle or use public transport to go to work.
2. Choose when possible products packaged without plastic and recycle or re-use containers.
3. Buy organic fruits and vegetables (fertilisers and pesticides are based on oil more often than not).
4. Buy beauty products (shampoo, soap, make-up) based on natural ingredients, not oil.
5. Choose when possible locally produced products (less transport involved).
6. Buy clothes made out of organic cotton or hemp - not from oil derivatives.
7. Use non-disposable items in picnics and summer festivals.
8. Quit bottled water.
9. Fly less.
10. Demand that your government encourage renewable energy instead of oil.
people have been asking how they can reduce their oil consumption in
their daily lives.
Here's our top ten:
1. Carpool, cycle or use public transport to go to work.
2. Choose when possible products packaged without plastic and recycle or re-use containers.
3. Buy organic fruits and vegetables (fertilisers and pesticides are based on oil more often than not).
4. Buy beauty products (shampoo, soap, make-up) based on natural ingredients, not oil.
5. Choose when possible locally produced products (less transport involved).
6. Buy clothes made out of organic cotton or hemp - not from oil derivatives.
7. Use non-disposable items in picnics and summer festivals.
8. Quit bottled water.
9. Fly less.
10. Demand that your government encourage renewable energy instead of oil.
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Permalink Reply by carolyn westlake on -
Re Point 2-My bin is full of plastic and nothing else now we have all these recycling boxes. But so MUCH plastic. Very little fruit and veg is unpackaged in the supermarkets nowdays but I dont know where else to get my food. There is no choice that i can see. Anyone got any ideas? Ia m also saving all the netting from the plastic boxes- not sure why, praps I can knit it into a netting for veg growing on the allottmen. (or maybe a string vest)!!!
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Permalink Reply by don carlin on -
um yes this is a real problem (whatever happened to the push for supermarkets to reduce use of plastic, both with carrier type bags and in food packaging - that seems to have gone backwards rather than forwards!) I'm hoping to see something different on the visit to Camden, can't imagine they haven't addressed this issue in some way - meanwhile I try to get as much as possible from Rochester High Street, but it's impossible, at least for the moment, to cut the supermarket from my shopping - I'm having various conversations with other similar but different initiatives around the globe about all things transitional and sustainable - I'll check if they've got an answer for this - did you know btw that the concept of 'waste' is a relatively 'recent' economic invention - time was when nature did that job for us - as ever we need to look backwards if we want to move forwards to a better way of doing things . .
love the netting thing - are you doing the vests in a choice of colours?
:-) d x
carolyn westlake said:Re Point 2-My bin is full of plastic and nothing else now we have all these recycling boxes. But so MUCH plastic. Very little fruit and veg is unpackaged in the supermarkets nowdays but I dont know where else to get my food. There is no choice that i can see. Anyone got any ideas? Ia m also saving all the netting from the plastic boxes- not sure why, praps I can knit it into a netting for veg growing on the allottmen. (or maybe a string vest)!!!
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Permalink Reply by carolyn westlake on
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Vests in blue, orange or a rather nice Gaia Green could be avaialable....!!!!!!!!!!!
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