Mrs Green

I am a long time supporter of the Green and Sustainable lifestyle. After being caught in the Boscastle floods in 2004, our family begun a journey to respect and promote the importance of Earth's fragile ecosystem, that focussed on reducing waste. Inspired by the beauty and resourcefulness of this wonderful planet, I have published numerous magazine articles on green issues and the author of four books.

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Get off your arse Thursday – week 2

Filed in Blog by on March 19, 2009 22 Comments

Who’s going to join in this week? Get off your arse Thursday is your opportunity to get on with a job you’ve been procrastinating about that will help you reduce, reuse, recycle or compost more. We don’t care what it is as long as it help you reduce your landfill waste in some way. Read […]

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Layla made zero waste chocolate – from scratch!

Filed in Blog by on March 18, 2009 28 Comments

I’ve been writing about some wonderful people doing wonderful things this week. But this story really takes the biscuit, or the cocoa powder, or whatever …

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Why not ask your council to have a go?

Filed in Blog by on March 17, 2009 21 Comments

Here in Gloucestershire we were doing it with our council at the end of January. St Edmundsbury did it with their community a year ago. Bath and North east Somerset have done it twice, Essex did it last week and Norfolk had a go at the end of last year. What am I talking about?

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Recycled glassware from old bottles

Filed in Blog by on March 16, 2009 21 Comments

I’ve decided to have an easy week and I’m going to highlight some funky goings-on from around the web world. Paul from Ecoutlet, shared a video with me about Andy the recycled glass man! This is one from of a series of videos, highlighting some of Ecoutlet’s suppliers and the methods used in their product […]

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Sunday roundup 42

Filed in Blog by on March 15, 2009 3 Comments

We’ve made it through the winter, folks! This will be the final winter roundup for this year! We’ve had another great week at Chez Green with lots going on and plenty of action on the site.

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In which I question everything we have done to date

Filed in Blog by on March 13, 2009 19 Comments

Yesterday was one of those days. One of those days when my faithful companion, the black dog came to curl up in the corner of my mind, combined with a wasted journey and a trip to the recycling centre. I came home thoroughly depressed, not only at wasting my time, but at my feelings as […]

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national Butchers week March 16-21

Filed in Blog by on March 13, 2009 13 Comments

Yesterday I declared all Thursday’s to be ‘Get off your arse’ Thursday. It’s your chance to actually DO one of the things on your pending list of ‘could recycle more’.

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It’s get off your arse Thursday!

Filed in Blog by on March 12, 2009 23 Comments

After my little outburst a couple of weeks ago about procrastination and overwhelm I’ve decided the Thursdays will never be the same again.

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