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We were at the Museum of London over the weekend and were browsing at the shops. I’ve always loved those die cast toys – the London bus, the post box, the telephone box. Things I’d hoard if I were a tourist.
But doesn’t you heart sink a bit when you look a bit more closely and [...]

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BOGOF deals harming the environment?

Buy-one-get-one-free offers by supermarkets are recently highlighted by the government as one of the main causes of the billions worth of food thrown away each year in the UK.
And there have been talks of banning this kind of offers.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that BOGOFs are meant to get rid of the [...]

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Greening your holidays

There is no holiday mode to being green.
No, we don’t mean that you settle for staycations or cycle all the way to your destinations or stay in an eco-lodge or calculate your flight emissions and purchase carbon offsets (Though you can do all these too).
We’re suggesting simple things. Really more like the ones you do at [...]

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luffa for washing up dishes?

[image swiped from Michael's Luffas]
loofah, luffa, lufah. It goes by a lot of spellings, which I think are all correct. If you haven’t seen one look here.
Normally you use it to scrub yourself in the shower. I’ve ran across one in a health shop named Michael’s Original Luffa Washing-Up Scouring pad. And I thought, what [...]

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