A staggering 30-40 per cent of the water we use in our homes is for flushing the loo. That works out at two baths worth of water per day for the average family. Yet by taking a few simple steps or swapping your old toilet for an ‘eco-loo’, you can minimise your water usage, and save money too.
… Water-saving toilets Emay Walker | 1st April 2005 Ethical Living Toilets Compost Water Loo Eco-loo Water-saving Green Lifestyle Energy Pollution …
Imagine a garden pond filled with white and pink
water lilies and purple irises and humming with a chorus of frogs and birds. Now imagine swimming in it. Alice Klein and Hannah Hislop take a dip in the world of natural swimming pools
… a garden pond filled with white and pink water lilies and purple irises and humming … where plants, specially chosen to purify the water and harbour wildlife, grow. Ask most … a natural swimming pool cleanses the water by organic means, using the purifying …
If you go down to Barnes today you're in for a big surprise. The sterile concrete of a former reservoir has been turned into a world renowned haven for birds and wildlife. Bridget Nicholls wises a happy fifth birthday to the London Wetland Centre
… London Wetland Centre (LWC). When Thames Water, London’s main public water supplier, built a ring main around the … that had supplied Londoners with drinking water since the 1890s. Luckily, the Barn Elms …
Old wives' tales or not they'll help your sneezes more than a trip to the chemist
… provides rehydration. The body loses lots of water through coughing, a running nose or … it’s as easy as pie. Just fill a pot with hot water and add a couple of drops of eucalyptus … Squeeze a lemon and just add honey and hot water. The only drawback is that you’ll lose …
Boycott Coca-Cola and make money for the victims of Coca-Cola. How much can we make?
… Campaign Coca-Cola Boycott Human Rights Water Theft Water Waste India USA Business Boycotts … International Development Community Fresh Water Food And Farming Society …
Scientists mapping the effects of deforestation in the Amazon are increasingly concerned that we are reaching a tipping point – when the forest will start to die back of its own accord and rain, currently generated by the Amazon forests, will stop falling, not just in neighbouring countries but as far afield as the United States and South Africa.
… the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Opening up waterways and constructing roads fuel … highways, building railways and industrial waterways to export millions of tonnes of … forest would be flooded. When covered with water, the forest’s trees will decompose, …
Wangari Maathai’s Nobel prize-winning activism has thrust the environment to the forefront of the global security agenda
… | 1st March 2005 Activism Cleaner Air Cleaner Water Cleaner Land Kenya Nobel Peace Prize … are almost always over resources: land, oil, water, grazing ground, fishing rights.’ … fields planting and harvesting and fetching water from the crystal streams that flow from …
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory...
… moral advisory... This spinning ball of blue water with the lovely clouds on it – she … in my mind, and then, and then – that same water shoots through my window and pulls me out into my whitewater street in a swirl of dead neighbours. …
Having an allotment is no longer a tiresome hobby practised by old geezers in wellies and donkey jackets. It’s an insurance policy against an uncertain future, as Paul Kingsnorth has found out for himself over the last three years.
… I knew if you put seeds in soil and added water, they grew The best thing that happened … never worked before. I planted the seeds, I watered and tended them, I fed them and after … cobs in triumph, tossed them into a pan of water (boil for 10 minutes, no salt) and then …
Skin has a life of its ownthat most of us know nothing about. Getting in touch with its natural rhythms, rather than bullying it with creams and potions, is the most reliable
path to a better complexion
… in response to hormone changes that trigger water retention. Studies in healthy women show … be refl ected in your skin. Try drinking more water. Ovulation: Around day 14 of a 28-day … Days 15 to 20: One benefit of increasing water retention in the skin at this stage is …
Half way between Cusco and the lost city of Machu Picchu lies the ancient artery of Inca trade and production - the salt terraces. For over 1,000 years little has changed for the salt farmers of Maras. Now, thanks to a clumsy, unnecessary and potentially dangerous attempt at mass medication, this traditional livelihood is at risk. By James Frankham.
… to the town below. As the mineral-rich water runs from one evaporation pool to the … on terraces rather than evaporated from sea-water pans. For centuries the farmers sold the … baños several times in the last month; adding water, harvesting the salt and grading it into …
Anyone serious about making poverty history needs to understand where poverty actually comes from and what it really is.
… – when measured in terms of right to food and water, sustainability of livelihoods, and … still depend on nature. Without clean water, fertile soils and vegetable genetic … land has not been appropriated and whose water and biodiversity have not been destroyed …
The huge popularity of antibacterial household cleaners is encouraging superbugs,
allergies, immune-system failure and dangerous environmental pollution. It’s time to
stop cleaning ourselves to death.
… to keep the bugs at bay. Unlike soap and water, which work efficiently by physically … initially remove more organisms than soap and water, within 90 minutes or so there is … in rivers, streams and other bodies of water. It is highly toxic to aquatic life, …
If a majority of US citizens support action on climate change, how does their government get away with ignoring them?
… poor countries such as Bangladesh under water – not to mention much of southern … acid as [the carbon] is dissolved in seawater, putting an enormous array of marine … and 1995 about 4,800 cubic miles of fresh water… melted from the Arctic region and …
Aspartame should never have reached the marketplace. But even if the authorities were to remove it from sale tomorrow, how much faith should consumers place in the other artificial sweeteners on the market?
… chemical substance which Tate & Lyle calls a 'water-soluble chlorocarbohydrate'. Accepting … as the pesticide residues in our food and water, bio-accumulate slowly in the body; and … (for instance, the chlorine used in water-treatment plants, or microbial life) to …
In intensive farming animals are viewed as units of production to be ground relentlessly through the system. Nothing could be more different at Kite’s Nest in the Cotswolds, where the livestock is actively engaged in deciding how the farm is managed.
… Mary was wedged with improvised hot-water bottles into the passenger seat. Our … to a wide variety of food and lots of pure water, the most independent creatures’. How … farming: added routinely to feed or drinking water, they suppress certain gut flora in …
According to a Mori poll in March 2004, the fairtrade mark is now recognised by 39 per cent of the British public, up from 11 per cent five years ago. But what difference does fairtrade actually make to the lives of the producers? John Atkin looks at the Nicaraguan community of La Pita who sell half of their coffee on the fairtrade market
… soil erosion, and a regular supply of clean water. Much of this has been enabled by the … each of the 16 homes now has clean running water after the community completed a channel …
Imagine you could turn 30 per cent of your household waste, at no cost, into high-quality compost for your plants, while also reducing toxic emissions from incinerator plants...
… the structure of the soil and increases its water-holding capacity. Your plants will grow … as cardboard. If it is too dry, pour some water on it. Do NOT add to your bucket The …
Just change your electricity supplier and help fight climate change. Sounds too good to be true. Is it?
… energy firm in Germany is also the biggest water utilities company in the world and the owner of Thames Water, which came top of the Environment … But as far as we see it, it's power from water running down hills. The water would …
Do you want the best for your baby, but don’t want to harm the environment? Then use reusable nappies. Contrary to popular belief, modern reusables are cheaper and more hygienic than disposables, and you won't have to spend hours cleaning them.
… nappies that consist of a nappy and a waterproof wrap to go over it; and all-in-ones … consisting of a cloth nappy with a waterproof wrap attached. The latter look … liquid that can leak into soil and local water supplies. The 10 per cent that aren't …
Paul Kingsnorth talks to Stephanie Roth, the former Ecologist campaigns editor who has
just been awarded the 'environmental movement's Nobel prize' for risking life and limb
to prevent the exploitation of the largest gold reserves in Europe
… village and threatens to pollute the drinking water of 100,000 people. More remarkable than … one thing: Gabriel Resources is dead in the water. This mine can never happen. There is … na Barbu Minister for the Environment and Water Management Boulevard Libertatii Nr. 12 …
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a hefty warning to the cosmetics industry - clean up your act or else. The question is: will the agency follow through?
… some of the most ubiquitous pollutants in our waterways. Washed down the sink or toilet, … sewage systems and are discharged into our water supply and onto the land. Municipal … consumption of minute quantities in drinking water) are essentially unknown. There are …
Undeterred by a series of terrifying accidents, the Bush administration is pushing ahead with its potentially apocalyptic biological weapons programme.
… called Southern Research landed itself in hot water by accidentally sending live anthrax all … into fires that burned the skin despite water being thrown on the burns - a telltale …