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read on another forum an interesting idea:

for every £ you spend on petrol/travel, spend a £ on some thing benefitting diversity, wilderness, or nature

for every hour in front of tv or internet, and hour doing something that truly helps to make the world a better place

heres another ethical insurance company

http://www.naturesave.co.uk/

ibuyeco doesnt seem to say anything about their own carbon footprint, or where they invest their money etc etc only the carbon offsets. naturesave gives a share of its profits to campaigning groups etc...

ah, we have an orange grove, i'll have to give that one a try
thanks

my daughter chose to go to school here in portugal... it lasted a year, then she went back to the UK to live with her mum and go to school there. that lasted a year too. she couldnt take the bullies and oppressive adults (teachers). she did get a better grasp of portuguese, but my boys who didnt go ...

well, i am not often heard promoting the idea of more laws or banning stuff... but this would mainly be a problem for supermarkets, who produce all this unnecessary packaging but have no accountability for the mess it all makes.. i agree with you about banning the USE of things, but stopping the man...

Lammas request for letters of support June 2007 – September 2007 Lammas has submitted an application to build a low-impact ecovillage in North Pembrokeshire. Should this application succeed it will have significant implications for sustainable development across the UK. For the first time since the...

anyone else ever seen one of these?:

http://www.portugalsmallholding.org/200 ... courgette/

any ideas how this happens?

we kept them for a few months - but the noise drove us insane:

FRACKA FRACKA FRACKA all day every day... they are called frackas here in portugal..

hi sandyshore
i'd suggest you take a look at
http://www.pureportugal.info/forum/

there must be someone in your area selling solar panels etc.
there are some up here, but its a long way for them to travel - if you dont find anyone nearer, pm me and i'll give you contacts from here.

i thought their was a thread here somewhere for banning plastic bags, but couldnt find it

just heard a reort that Uganda has banned plastic bags, following the lead of rwanda and a couple other african countries!
brilliant, i thought, but why couldnt the uk do this?

yes, sorry i still dont get notification emails, i was proposing a section of 'where is the best place to invest, save get loans etc' somewhere to sahre info about radical routes, ecology building society, kiva etc but, the idea of a ish credit union isnt a bad one... normally credit unions are base...

i wouldnt worry - or force him with anything - all my kids were the same, but the seed was in their heads, and as they grew up they kinda reverted back to how i'd always wanted them to be.
peer pressure is strong with kids, and no one wants to stand out as different.

we're in portugal, bit further north. its the pipes. in cafes here you will see a little bin near the toilet, for your toilet paper, as it will clog the pipes. and every house has to have a bidet to get a habitation license - which is crazy but makes more sense than paper in sewage, or sewage in wat...

we have two solar showers that are simply hosepipes from our water tank, stretched out in the sun. its hotter here, and we can have a hot shower by 10am, by 2pm it can be too hot! i think that one of these bags (for 6.50) wouldnt last long in the sun here, whereas a hosepipe (25m for 25 euros) doesn...

it looks like you have 2 partitions c: and d:, and hopefully 'my documents' is configured to use d: in which case new programmes go into c: while docs, photos, music etc goes into d: if not, you are filling c: with everything, and no it wont automatically switch to d: unfortunately i am not good at ...