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4 suitcases and I love travel for the title

Some tips for travelling

Published 2024-04-03
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips, travel

Good Coffee

Photo showing a glass of water and a cup of coffee on a tray, by Ibrahim Rifath on Unsplash

80% of coffee is grown by smallholder farmers, a population of 125 million spreading from Brazil to Vietnam. The farmers are sadly but typically the ones to see the least…

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Published 2024-03-20
Categorised as ActionTagged coffee, ecotips, food

Peat-free Compost

Cut peat ready for packing for the horticulture industry

By the end of 2024, peat-based compost won’t be sold to the public in the UK anymore, thanks to new regulations. While this is brilliant for peat bogs and reduces…

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Published 2024-02-27
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips, peat, peat bog

Chocolate

Six square chocolate brownies on a white plate with dark background. Photo by Azmaan Baluch on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/chocolate-cake-on-white-ceramic-plate-BJsYX2m5hBc

Recently chocolate has been getting a lot of bad press because climate analysts have started to flag up the enormous and damaging land use changes that cocoa agriculture causes. 70%…

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Published 2024-02-20
Categorised as ActionTagged chocolate, ecotips, food, shopping

Heat Pump Resources

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

This is one for people who are seriously considering getting a heat pump. Because of the amount of misinformation out there and the newness of the industry, you’ll need the…

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Published 2024-02-07
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips, heatpumps

Don’t throw out those smelly trainers

Someone falling into a laundromat washing machine - image by Pexels from Pixabay

Save money, energy, resources and CO2 instead of buying a new pair by making those training shoes last longer. Here are some rules for rejuvenating them: This information was culled…

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Published 2024-01-24
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips, trainers

Fridges and Freezers

Freezer in need of defrosting, Image by Julio Pablo Vázquez

Refrigerators and freezers can run inefficiently and ineffectively if you forget a couple of key points. The less kilowatt-hours you use, the less climate-killing CO2 gets into the atmosphere. By…

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Published 2024-01-16
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips, freezer, heatpumps, refrigerator

Heat Pumps

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For anyone lucky enough to be in the position of choosing their next central heating system, there is really only one reason not to go with a heat pump assuming…

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Published 2023-12-19
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips, heatpumps

Four Good Things to Know about the Climate

Rodin the Thinker against a blue sky, Image from Pixabay

Many people don’t know the following, many more ‘know’ but don’t remember but it is definitely good for your sanity to bear these in mind. (1) The end date when…

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Published 2023-12-13
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips, mental

How Yoda uses a Tumble Dryer

Man and tumble dryer. Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko

Tumble dryers use a lot of electricity. On average, a tumble dryer uses roughly 4.5 kWh of electricity per cycle, depending on the machine. At the time of writing, each…

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Published 2023-11-28
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips, energy efficiency

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