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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Monthly challenge for November

Filed in Blog by on November 15, 2008 11 Comments

Better late than never. Welcome to the November monthly challenge. There is half of this month left to get your teeth stuck into our challenge for this month.

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Zero waste Christmas crackers

Filed in Blog by on November 14, 2008 13 Comments

A quick post from me today. I’m going to start doing a series on having a zero waste Christmas. I’d love to hear your thoughts about what topics you would like covered. For today, I know that John asked about crackers, so zero waste crackers it is!

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Supermarket cuts food waste!

Filed in Blog by on November 13, 2008 19 Comments

Forgive me if you’ve all known this for the past decade, but this week I indulged in something I’ve never done before. I went late night shopping. For that read ‘Past 6 o’clock’

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Weekly weigh in 24

Filed in Blog by on November 12, 2008 12 Comments

Ah, just as I thought. You might remember from a few days ago, I had a bit of a wayward shopping trip. Mainly due to poorly babe in arms and two sleepless nights. Well, our landfill bin is certainly showing signs of voluptuous curves and winter padding this week.

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Save up your junk mail – It’s junk mail revenge day!

Filed in Blog by on November 11, 2008 22 Comments

It’s a bit short notice, but I’ve been catching up with Robert’s blog over at Stop Junk Mail. On 15th November you’re invited to send all your junk mail back to the sender! Hopefully, you’ve already opted out by now with our trusty guide, but if there are any companies still squeezing their crap through […]

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We’re in the International papers!

Filed in Blog by on November 11, 2008 2 Comments

In Beijing that is! Yes, Just Gai and I have travelled to Beijing to share our stories. In the most emissions free way possible of course by trusty email. The news appeared in a life style weekend newspaper called “Beijing youth weekend” and was aimed at helping young people in China face their environmental problems […]

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A zero waste Birthday

Filed in Blog by on November 10, 2008 4 Comments

We celebrated a very special Birthday here at Chez Green last week and the earth celebrated with us as it was a true zero waste affair.

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Weekly roundup Twenty Three

Filed in Blog by on November 9, 2008 3 Comments

Howdy lovely people. We’ve had a poorly Little Miss green kind of week, but she’s on the mend now and back to her bouncy, inquisitive, asking-non-stop-questions self. Thank you for all your well wishes; she appreciates them and so do we 🙂

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