The ecologist magazine is a really good British magazine that is very up-to-date on current environmental initiatives, philosophy and advice thier website is http://www.theecologist.org/
As we mentioned in our first blog posting, we are also now only using Ecover cleaning products, shopping for our food at the market and have locally grown, organic fruit and vegetables delivered to our door weekly by Abel and Cole (www.ableandcole.co.uk) for the very reasonable price of c.£20 per week. 
However the 'greenest' thing we have been doing is trying to reduce our need for material items, we are questioning all the adverts we see that try and get us to buy things. We are trying to meet our basic non-material needs in more authentic ways (not by buying material goods and services)... so far it is working, our consumption is right down and we are very happy! Probably the biggest impact on this is that we decided not to have a television in our flat, we therefore do not get too exposed to advertisments and don't spend our evenings watching boring TV programs!
I am currently snowed under writing up my PhD so nothing much as happened so far in terms of Local Footsteps London, but we are hoping to have our first meeting in January so both of us have been telling people about it and we've had a fair bit of interest already.
As we mentioned in our first blog posting, we are also now only using Ecover cleaning products, shopping for our food at the market and have locally grown, organic fruit and vegetables delivered to our door weekly by Abel and Cole (www.ableandcole.co.uk) for the very reasonable price of c.£20 per week. 
However the 'greenest' thing we have been doing is trying to reduce our need for material items, we are questioning all the adverts we see that try and get us to buy things. We are trying to meet our basic non-material needs in more authentic ways (not by buying material goods and services)... so far it is working, our consumption is right down and we are very happy! Probably the biggest impact on this is that we decided not to have a television in our flat, we therefore do not get too exposed to advertisments and don't spend our evenings watching boring TV programs!
I am currently snowed under writing up my PhD so nothing much as happened so far in terms of Local Footsteps London, but we are hoping to have our first meeting in January so both of us have been telling people about it and we've had a fair bit of interest already.I thought I'd include here a brief book list for people who want to read a bit more about the direction that Environmentalism seems to be going at the moment, here it is:
1. Capitalism as If the World Matters by Jonathan Porritt
2. Environmentalism (Short Histories of Big Ideas) by David Peterson del mar
3. Bonfire of the Brands: How I Learned to Live Without Labels by Neil Boorman
4. The High Price of Materialism by Tim Kasser
5. Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
6. Affluenza: When Too Much Is Never Enough by Hamilton and Denniss
The Conservative party has a Quality of Life Policy group and they last week launced a 'Blueprint for a green economy' It can be accessed here:
http://www.conservatives.com/getfile.cfm?file=blueprintforagreeneconomy&ref=GENERALFILE/3585&type=pdf
Stay Happy & Green
Morgan and Emma
1. Capitalism as If the World Matters by Jonathan Porritt
2. Environmentalism (Short Histories of Big Ideas) by David Peterson del mar
3. Bonfire of the Brands: How I Learned to Live Without Labels by Neil Boorman
4. The High Price of Materialism by Tim Kasser
5. Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
6. Affluenza: When Too Much Is Never Enough by Hamilton and Denniss
The Conservative party has a Quality of Life Policy group and they last week launced a 'Blueprint for a green economy' It can be accessed here:
http://www.conservatives.com/getfile.cfm?file=blueprintforagreeneconomy&ref=GENERALFILE/3585&type=pdf
Stay Happy & Green
Morgan and Emma
1 comment:
hi every1. my name is Lonia from South Africa- Tembisa. the city could be a very busy life with everyone travelling and making a better living for themselves.we have noticed that all the travelling really has a bad influence on the environment and we then decided to start up a group from Cida City Campus that will bring awareness to people so they try to cut on using fuel and start walking. even though the group is not formally formed because we just started, if we persist we could make a huge impact on the environment. we understand that caring for the environment means caring for ourselves as well. everyone on the group has such wonderful ideas on how to make the world a better place for the animals, the people and the environment as well.
looking forward to updating you on our activities.
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