This is not my... Day
21/12/06 - Forget driving home
20/12/06 - Party, party, party
This Section; Background; The point
Oh the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me... |
1 solar panel
2 efficient light bulbs
3 organic t-shirts
4 local carrots
5 GOLD RINGS!!!!!
(Well - everyone likes singing that bit!)
Ach - enough of that. Really all we wanted to say is - hope your Christmas is full of love, laughter and lots and lots of kissing.
Have and amazing time and come back to see us in the New Year.
HAPPY CHISTMAS!
Love,
Susie, Lara and Ollie xxx
21/12/06 - Forget driving home
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What about walking home for Christmas...? |
The lovely thing about London is that it is really pretty small.
The lovely thing about Christmas is that you certainly fill up on enough food to give you the energy to wander for a mile or two.
There may be tube strikes this year in town but it could be a brilliant opportunity for us to burn off a few of those mince pies heading through out fair streets on foot.
And if we are super keen we could head further as part of the Rambling Associations Festival of Winter Walks.
It is true that walking, running, hopping etc may not be the quickest way of getting from a to b (especially if your family happen to live in, say, the Scottish borders rather than Kentish Town) but worth a thought if they don't.
Plus - leaving the car at home could save a few pounds of both types!
Right better go and find my cosiest jacket and get out there.
Have a fabulous day x
20/12/06 - Party, party, party
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but it is always good to get home at some point... |
It's 11pm.
You need to go.
You're half way through your baby sham and some hot young thing is giving you the eye.
If it wasn't for those pecky tubes!
Much as they are a wonder of warmth through out the chillier months of the year, it is pretty depressing when you miss them.
But there is (of course) a green solution!
Green Tomato taxi's are all hybrids and they off-set all unaviodable emissions. As do Ecoigo. Fabulous.
And - though they obviously don't use the Toyota prius as their car of choice - Radio Taxi's are a Carbon Neutral company.
So there you go.
Grab that mistletoe and keep on dancing. If there are two of you in that cab it will be more efficient right...?
It's Christmas!
x
This section will be a daily, well - Monday to Friday daily, editorial. (Have to keep some time aside to keep up the ritual wine drinking / dancing as if being chased by bees.)
I promise to make it my mission to investigate something each day on exciting forays to find new stuff, fun stuff, ethical stuff and anything involving break dancing men with extremely toned physiques.
Let me know if you think of something I should go and visit or if you have any great ideas or information. (Any dodgy suggestions will be politely declined... or not so politely, depending entirely on what they are!)
For today, though, please just have a look below to find out how this whole thing came about. I hope that you are having a lovely morning.
See you tomorrow,
Susie x
Background to This is not my...
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What is this site all about?
Well, as all good ventures do, it started in the pub with the ominous words "I know, why don't we...?" |
What was different, though, was that it still seemed like a good plan in the morning (and somewhat less injurious than trying out extreme ironing, the other suggestion...)
Anyway - once again we had been supping beers and putting the world to rights when someone mentioned the unmentionable, despite our disaffection with the state of the world, none of us was actually doing anything positive to change it.
Whether this was complacency or apathy, who knows - but we were definitely leaving it to others to make decisions and take action for us on issues about which we felt strongly.
We live in a free society, but often things seem to happen as a fait accompli. The war in Iraq, ID cards, the fact that we will eventually succumb to watching some of Big Brother no matter how hard we try...
And we just go along with it. But that is ok, right? I mean, we aren't exactly encouraging the abuse of others - are we?
Ok - so maybe my new top might have been made under less-than-perfect conditions and I suppose that means I am supporting those conditions, but - I have to buy something to wear, so what other choice do I have?
And that was the problem. What - and where - are the choices?
So we decided to investigate. Surely in this free society we have other options; we just need to know how to find them.
So we went online. There are some great directories already for ethical and/or environmentally friendly products, but for us these didn't go far enough. We were on a bit of a roll and decided that these products deserved more active promotion.
We wanted to make as many people as possible aware of the practical things they can do to live life in a better way.
So on this site we will provide information about easy, positive and ethical consumer choices. These are choices that won’t necessarily cost you more, either.
In our directories you will find environmentally friendly and ethical companies and products across the following categories:
Clothes
Energy
Food and Drink
Health and Beauty
Home and Garden
Office
Recycling
Restaurants
You will also find debates, downloads, fun stuff and plenty more to lure you back to the site on a regular basis.
We’d love you to get involved with some curious antics to keep important issues in the public eye – and provide us with much entertainment and amusement at the same time.
So - take a look. Explore… investigate… probe away.
We hope you like it; we hope you use it.
