This article is about where you can take your electronics for repair, or how you can do it yourself. There is magic in fixing your own possessions, giving them a new life. Whether you are saving items of clothing...
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Clive MargolisGuest Article: Why Composting Is Key To Fighting Climate Change
By Estella Young Composting. To compost, or not to compost? Now, that’s a good question The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tells us composting enriches soil, retains moisture and suppresses...
Estella YoungSustainable Clothing: Nine Great Reasons To Change
Sustainable clothing means avoiding “fast” fashion, exploitative and unfair practices and manufacturing that causes pollution and damages the natural environment. So here are nine great reasons to change how...
How To Fix A Coffee Grinder – Imperfectly
How to fix a coffee grinder, part two. The saga continues. Have I fixed the seal? No, but I have a good excuse – Sue said it wasn’t grinding properly. Ok, it’s gotten a bit lumpy but I compensated by...
Nine Easy Ways You Can Reduce Plastic Waste
Everyone’s concerned about the plastic polluting our oceans, damaging our wildlife and littering our open spaces. Giving up plastic cups might seem a small thing, but when a billion people make that decision...
Job Done! Five Ways To Fix Your Electronics And Save Money
Everyone’s fighting for the right to repair their own stuff! So here I look at five ways you can repair your electrical goods – and save money. A week ago the sound finally went on my Monster Beats Mk. 1...
Eleven Great Ideas To Help You Reduce E-Waste Guilt-Free
Electronic waste (e-waste) is a major and growing problem around the world wasting millions of tonnes of precious metals and causing mountains of toxic waste (read about it here). But there are ways we can enjoy our...
Ten E-Waste Facts That Will Make You Want To Cover Your Face
People all around the world are starting to take notice of electronic waste and its huge environmental footprint. How many of these facts did you know? E-waste fact #1: Toxic Ingredients. Laptops contain...
Buying Organic Fruit And Veg – Ten Good Reasons
Most of us have thought about buying organic fruit and veg. Maybe you’d like to but you don’t think you can afford them. You’d probably be surprised that these days organic is as cheap or...
Ten Food Sustainability Issues To Consider
According to The Hunger Project 1 in 9 of the Earth’s population do not get enough to eat. Meanwhile an estimated 30% of food is wasted by the rest of us. I always like to talk about solutions so here’s a...