Greening of EU UK & I

Brought my lunch today (Brown rice + spinach, another vegetarian meal) while visiting Leicester office.

We don't generate a lot of waste. I already recycle much more than I throw away. This is the waste that I cannot recycle or compost from a family of 4 for one day: My council do not have a scheme for recycling plastic other than bottle shaped plastic and we have no food waste scheme. If I lived near my parents, our waste would have been one...

Earth Month has sped by. I have learnt a lot of new things but more importantly I am changing my habits. Using the car less, using my 'bags for life', planning meals, reusing before recycling, collecting litter and generally taking more notice of my surroundings. I will try to ensure that, for me, every month is Earth Month.

Not just bees, but butterflies too play a vital role in our ecosystem by pollinating. I buy caterpillars every year to mark an anniversary close to my heart, I look after the caterpillars as they develop into beautiful butterflies, then I release them into my garden and the local area.

I recently chose a very eco friendly gift for my Dad's birthday. I made a bird feeder and bug house for his garden from a wine box I had received and wood and twigs from my own garden.

I have thoroughly enjoyed Earth month and many of the actions / challenges that I set myself during this month will carry on with me into the future and wont be just for Earth Month. I am looking forward to Plastic Free July and I would encourage everybody to sign up for Plastic free July, a global movement sharing plastic free solutions so we...

Learnt something new this month and would like to share. An alternate name for planet Earth, as well as the Latin name for the planet. It is "Terra" (mythology), primeval Roman goddess.

Using re-useable plastic bags will continue beyond the eco-challenge month!

When I started this eco-challenge I committed to picking 5 pieces of litter per day. I didn't want to over commit and under achieve, however, last evening I picked 20 pieces of litter as I just couldn't walk by and leave it in the grass verge! Although the eco-challenge month will end shortly, my litter picking will continue.

This morning when I was opening the windows i heard a distinctive but familiar sound outside in the garden , it was a male pheasant , so I decided this morning i would learn a bit more about these gorgeous birds: Pheasants aren’t native to Ireland, or even to the UK, having been introduced as game birds by the Normans there. It’s estimated...