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Induction Hobs

Photo of a neon light saying make pasta not war. Photo by Natasha Polyakova on Unsplash

“Now we’re cooking with gas!”, they used to say – a quote from a North Sea gas advert years ago. Cooking with an induction hob is the way to go…

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Published 2024-08-04
Categorised as ActionTagged cooking, ecotips, food

Keep Peat in Bogs not Bags

Peat bog in the setting sun by KB on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/the-sun-is-setting-over-a-vast-expanse-of-water-axa5jckDcg4

Mushrooms, for peat’s sake? It seems Britain and Ireland’s mushroom growers use nothing but peat from our extensive CO2-storing peat bogs, adding to the continued decimation and massive CO2 emissions…

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Published 2024-07-07
Categorised as ActionTagged cooking, ecotips, food, peat, peat bog

Pesky Pumpkin Remains

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Halloween sees people the world over getting creative with pumpkin carving and results in tons of wasted pumpkins if people don’t have the means, the time or the oomph to…

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Published 2023-11-01
Categorised as ActionTagged cooking, ecotips, food

Sustainable Fish

Oysters. Image by Kate Baucherel from Pixabay

Not a lot of people know this but species-rich, undamaged marine ecosystems actually draw down CO2 and sequester it through natural processes, which is very good in the fight against…

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Published 2023-04-18
Categorised as ActionTagged cooking, ecotips

Plant-based Milks and Dairy Milk

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Milk from dairy cows has a higher carbon footprint by any measure than any plant-based milk on the market, including soya, oat, hazelnut, cashew, almond, rice, hemp, pea, potato or…

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Published 2023-03-21
Categorised as ActionTagged cooking, ecotips

How to cook pasta and save energy

Photo of a neon light saying make pasta not war. Photo by Natasha Polyakova on Unsplash

The furore in Italy is a paygrade above the average Brit’s palette, but cooking pasta badly is easily done. Here is a method to cook pasta and save energy and…

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Published 2023-01-11
Categorised as ActionTagged cooking, ecotips, food, pasta

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