Tag: Show the Love
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Craftivism
I have been involved in Craftivism since I made my first green heart broach Campaigning on Climate Change through The Climate Coalition . If you read my blog earlier in the week you know that i’m in total lock down. I can’t go out, not even for the one hour a day health activity, nothing. So…
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Every pumpkin grown is precious – bag one today and try out one of these recipes.
I have updated our Pumpkin Cook Book – no food waste and no plastic waste this Halloween. Pumpkin is a great veg and so cheap. Look out for deals tomorrow in the shops.. You can make purée which will freeze. Try the farm shops for the tastier pumpkins, but supermarket carving ones are great in…
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Plastic Free Halloween
Halloween, All Hallows Eve, a devil of a day for Plastic Free Pioneers. There was a time in the UK when the most ‘American’ thing about Halloween in the UK was whenever they released the horror movies of the same name. In the UK we have traditionally focussed much more on Guy Fawkes Night on…
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Fighting for the Future
Yesterday I got to experience a true feel good moment, I got to make a young girl’s day. However, the entire time I was there I couldn’t get past this overwhelming, nagging feeling that we are failing our younger generation. Earlier in the year I pinched the idea of doing an art Competition with schools…
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No rest for the Wicked
You can take Helen from the ‘environmental campaigning’, but you can’ take the ‘environmental campaigner’ from Helen… You can take a break from work but you can never take a break from being an environmental campaigner, that goes with you wherever you are. I knew trying out #PlasticFreeJuly while on a weeks holiday would be…
Helen Tandy - Plastic Free Northerner - I'm fanatical about reducing plastic waste. 