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5 of the best recycled bags 2007-07-26 16:25:05 By buying recycled we close the loop that we start when we recycle our waste. Thanks to some extraordinarily creative people out there, our waste can become a desirable fashion statement. Take a look… 1. This Emmeline 4 Re recycled handbag is made in the UK out of fabrics and leather that would otherwise have ended up in landfill. £31 including postage. 2. The recycled tube bag from Ting is made of old leather belts and lined with vintage fabric. The belts are bonded together and cleverly crafted into a very cool bag. Made in Spain. £275 with free shipping during the month of July 2007. 3. The Rubbage clutch bag is made of recycled tyre inner tubes and edged in stainless steel. A handbag with attitude. £22.95 plus postage. 4. The Doy bamboo handled recycled candy wrapper bag is just one of the many products created by a women’s group in the Philippines that keeps millions of juice cartons and sweet wrappers from being burnt, buried or simply littering the s ...

Every little helps 2007-07-26 14:36:16 ‘Nuff said. Sponsor: Save money and do your bit to save the planet - switch to ibuyeco 100% carbon neutral car insurance Bookmark:    Discuss this post   Subscribe to this feed ...

EcoLinking - 26 July 2007 2007-07-26 09:36:14 In response to George Monbiot’s recent article in the Guardian on “ethical consumerism”, Gareth Kane of Eco-Living explains how we can carry on spending, and still be eco-friendly in his blog post entitled Less is more? Treehugger also comments on George’s article, saying that ethical shopping shows how rich you are, and that if really want to live green, you shouldn’t be buying anything you don’t absolutely need. I was digging around on Squidoo the other day and came across a very cool lens about The Non-Electric Life. It’s got some interesting ideas for cutting down energy use. Amy Stodgill says it’s easy to get rid of the plastic bag problem, in your life anyway. Just say no to the plastic bag is her advice at Green Options. Greenthinkers gives us 5 uncommon uses for baking soda and 5 More Uncommon Uses for Baking Soda. Baking soda is bicarbonate of soda in the UK. I’m particularly pleased to hear that it removed crayon fro ...

How to give your garden a green makeover 2007-07-25 17:04:12 Continuing our series of green makeover posts, today we’ll be concentrating on your garden. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make a few changes to the way you garden, and make a big difference to the planet. These suggestions are not only for those with large suburban or rural gardens. They apply equally to those of you with a roof garden, or a few pots on a balcony. Composting Composting is a fantastic way of reducing household waste, and it’s a free resource of nutrition for your garden, preventing the need for peat-based compost and chemical fertilisers. There are so many ways to compost, some even suitable for flat-dwellers. Here is a look at some of those options: Simple Composting - You’ll need a garden for this, and somewhere to “cook” the compost. Either dig a hole and be an undercover composter, make yourself a composter or buy a composter and fill it with your fruit and veg peelings and garden waste. A few months later ...

EcoLinking - 24 July 2007 2007-07-24 11:09:27 NewConsumer.com tells us about how Friends of the Earth have launched a railway guide to West Cumbria’s wind farms. In Context have published a list of 101 ways to heal the earth. It’s a great list and includes not just things to do, but things to contemplate also. The Chamber lets us know that a new Climate Change Northwest website has launched, exploring the possibilities and challenges caused by climate change in England’s Northwest region. Knit an everlasting bagstopper, courtesy of Knitty. Sponsor: Save money and do your bit to save the planet - switch to ibuyeco 100% carbon neutral car insurance Bookmark:    Discuss this post   Subscribe to this feed ...

Morph goes green for Friends of the Earth 2007-07-24 10:27:18 Morph came out of retirement today to promote Friends of the Earth One Minute with Meaning film competition. “One-minute green films are a fantastic way to channel some of UK’s creative talent into communicating environmental issues. We hope these films will inspire others to get involved and help to protect this beautiful planet that we all live on.” Tony Juniper, Executive Director of Friends of the Earth Sponsor: Save money and do your bit to save the planet - switch to ibuyeco 100% carbon neutral car insurance Bookmark:    Discuss this post   Subscribe to this feed ...

Reminder: please take our reader survey 2007-07-24 09:16:53 We are taking part in this year’s Blog Reader Project to find out more about you, our readers. We are asking you to take a completely anonymous survey about yourself and your interests, blog-related and otherwise, which will give us (and potential advertisers) a better sense of who you are, and will be added to data from other blogs for an overall picture of the blogosphere. We’d love you to take the survey so that we can get to know you better, and so deliver more of what you are interested in. The folks at BlogAds who are organizing the Project note “You may want to warn readers that the survey is long, BUT they can bail anytime after the first page. (Once they hit drinks questions, they’re almost home and deserve a drink.) The survey takes about 12 minutes.” I hope that you will complete the whole thing, but if you only have a couple of minutes, please do as much as you can. Thank you in advance, and again, the survey is anonymous. Also, thanks for being an EcoStreet ...

EcoRadar - 20 July 2007 2007-07-20 17:04:35 Catching up with the weeks environmental news… London Councils are proposing a 10p plastic bag tax for the capital. It’s about time the UK caught on to this trend and rid its streets of the blight of plastic bags. Only one in every 200 plastic bags are recycled, and plastic bags can take up to 400 years to breakdown. Betsy Reid is a remarkable woman who lives her life with a zero-waste policy. She is an example for how we should all be living our lives. Read this article for tips on how to reduce your waste. South African wine farm Backsberg goes carbon neutral. If more business owners had Michael Back’s dedication to the environment, what a different world this would be. If you buy South African wine, this is one to look out for. But remember, buying local wines is always preferable. PC World are working on marketing a new carbon-neutral PC. The new PC is due to be launched in October, and will use only 13 to 17% of the energy usually required by a desktop c ...

Music 4 the planet: All Torn Down by The Living End 2007-07-20 11:25:50 Listening to Counting Crows cover of Big Yellow Taxi on the radio earlier today, I thought it would be cool to do a weekly music video slot on EcoStreet of songs written with our environment in mind. Here’s the first instalment. Sponsor: Save money and do your bit to save the planet - switch to ibuyeco 100% carbon neutral car insurance Bookmark:    Discuss this post   Subscribe to this feed ...

5 of the best bits of recycling kit 2007-07-20 02:21:12 Recycling is a wonderful way to reduce the amount of waste going into landfill, save energy, and help the planet. There is some very nifty recycling gear out there to help you sort, squash and reuse your household waste. Here are some of my favourites. 1. The Binvention - Stylish and desirable, the Binvention is a home recycling organiser. It’s made of recycled aluminium, and enables you to re-use plastic carrier bags to sort your recycling. 2. Recycled Waste Logmaker - How would you like to turn 30% of your household waste into free fuel for your open fire, wood-burning stove, chiminea, barbecue or camp fire? The Logmaker is incredibly simple and easy to use, and the logs burn for between 10 minutes and 1 hour, depending on their contents. With the Logmaker, you can not only reduce the amount of waste that would otherwise go to landfill sites but you’ll help conserve forests by reducing wood felling and consumption. So don’t bin it, burn it. 3. The PlasCan - T ...

method home products available at Sainsburys 2007-07-19 06:38:44 Imagine my surprise when I came across method home products in Sainsburys today. I was delighted to see more eco-friendly cleaning products at my local supermarket and have stocked up on method green tea + aloe hand wash, wood for good almond clean + polish + protect for wood, a wood for good microfibre cloth and wood for good non-toxic wooden floor cleaner. All their products are non-toxic and biodegradable. I’ll be writing reviews on them as soon as I’ve had a chance to use them. This video has a short bit on method home products at the start. Sponsor: Save money and do your bit to save the planet - switch to ibuyeco 100% carbon neutral car insurance Bookmark:    Discuss this post   Subscribe to this feed ...

EcoLinking - 19 July 2007 2007-07-19 03:42:55 Rob Thompson has put together a list of 10 easy steps to save thousands of $$$ at Robs Place - lifehacks for the everyday activist. Anna Shepherd shares her recipe for camping chai over at Eco-Worrier. This will come in handy now it’s festival season. On a more serious note. The Daily Galaxy brings us The Timeline For 21st Century “Climate Change Events”. Read it. It’s sobering stuff. Sponsor: Save money and do your bit to save the planet - switch to ibuyeco 100% carbon neutral car insurance Bookmark:    Discuss this post   Subscribe to this feed ...

The Convenient Solution 2007-07-18 15:02:20 Greenpeace explains why renewable energy, and not nuclear, is the convenient solution to cut carbon emissions. Sponsor: Save money and do your bit to save the planet - switch to ibuyeco 100% carbon neutral car insurance Bookmark:    Discuss this post   Subscribe to this feed ...

EcoChatter - what’s being chatted about at the EcoStreet forum 2007-07-18 14:59:06 The thread/poll about real nappies is attracting plenty of attention, but not one “landfiller” has had the bottle to vote. One forum member asks about carbon offsetting. How have you done this? Sponsor: Save money and do your bit to save the planet - switch to ibuyeco 100% carbon neutral car insurance Bookmark:    Discuss this post   Subscribe to this feed ...

The house of the future 2007-07-18 08:31:41 Kevin McCloud takes us for a walk around some eco-homes in Bow Yard, Somerset. Sponsor: Save money and do your bit to save the planet - switch to ibuyeco 100% carbon neutral car insurance Bookmark:    Discuss this post   Subscribe to this feed ...