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bobble hats

By juandi

New to this game, but here goes. As a pretty "kack handed" knitter, I can knit holes and straight things, not mastered going round corners yet, I was wondering what to do with the left over bits of wool that I had great plans for? Thanks to Paul O'Grady (that one on the telly) I have started to knit bobble hats for babies. It is a save the children initiative, to prevent new born babies dying...

I am using Public transport...

By rookie

I just started a new job and has been using train to get to work. It does kinda feel like starting your life from scratch when you are not holding that car key but I also think its cool.

How do you remember?

By Cocklecarrot

DEFRA has just released some figures that show that although 45% of us have bought the 'bags for life' that are offered by many stores, only 12% actually use them. I know I'm guily of that. In our house we have so many 'bags for life' or fold up shopping bags but I always forget to take one out with me. Not sure how you overcome this and how you remember to take a bag...

Airships - the future of av...

By CaesarSalad

Ever since a major disaster in 1937 Airships have not been very popular and have occupyied a place on the fringes of aviation transport. However now that we are scrutinising the environmental cost of flying, airships are being increasingly considered for a variety of different roles. For instace the US Navy has just announced that it is going to acquire a Skyship 600, which is almost as large...

30 years after DDT was banned

By walterdesilva

Decades after it was banned, the pesticide DDT is still showing up in penguins in Antartica. Researchers from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have been studying Adelie penguins and were surprised to find that the level of the pesticide in the birds' fat had not declined even though the exterior use of DDT was banned in the 1970s. Although the chemical had accumulated in melting...

Members' Recommendations

One of my favourite recent purchases is the EcoStapler. How many times have you gone to clip paper together only to find you have run out of staples?

Well, help is at hand and it is a great eco product because it doesn't use any staples! An ingenious cutting mechanism will attach 3 pieces of paper together. Find it at Nigel's Eco Store in the Green Category.