Rosie's Ecoblog

Autumn is a great time for foraging.  I’ve been picking apples, blackberries, pears and plums from my garden and hedgerows.  I’m planning to...

I’m often asked for my top 10 tips on reducing food waste, so here you have them. The big number one tip has to be…   Buy less food!  Try...

Sum total of waste on day three: 458g of manky cheese from the fridge clear out 94g of tea bags. Once a cheese. Yesterday's mea...

Did you know that this week is national Zero Waste Week .  The zero waste week campaign is now in its sixth year and each year tackles a ...

New Year's Eve 2012 - As I sipped my champagne cocktail, awaiting the midnight fireworks, wearing my new favourite dress bought for me, ...

Happy New Year! Here's my post Christmas tidy-up schedule. Eat any leftover Christmas pudding for breakfast. (That's my favouri...

Year six! I confess to a smug smile on my face yesterday morning when I looked out of the window and saw we had our first real frost. Why...

Or is it? Well it does require some effort, most definitely, but I can't help thinking that sometimes we don't do ourselves any fa...

Last Christmas I was given a briquette maker - one of those metal contraptions you use to turn waste paper into 'logs' to burn on th...

I've been looking into ways of generating my own energy.  The depressing thing about this is that it costs such a lot of money. Every ...

.... is another man's treasure. Well my local community shop certainly proves that to be true. Each year they are able to give away in ...

I came across this great post today on saving and even making money from green living. There are many ways that you can save money, just by...

The Energy Saving Trust have some great ideas for going green this Valentine's Day. And once again, these ideas show that going green i...

In an attempt to reduce the number of miles we travel taxiing our children to and from their afterschool activities we decided to eat out in...

From today Sainsbury's are removing their free plastic bags from the checkouts in the hope of encouraging bag re-use. Read more Back ...

As I was being 'dissed' yet again for my recycling habits, I came up with the idea of putting together a list of 101 ways to reduce ...