Action: Start a composter for your green waste
Compost your green waste Good compost is used to boost the nutrients in soil and this helps your plants to grow. This could be in your vegetable garden, to help …
Biodiversity
Action: Feed the birds in your garden or neighbourhood
Feeding the birds can be fun and involve the whole family. You don’t even really have to have a garden because even in urban areas you can help your local …
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Action: Make green New Year resolutions
Our first action of 2023 is … resolve to continue taking action this year! In 2021 we produced 365 articles about the actions we can all take as individuals to …
Action: Dispose of the Christmas tree properly
Disposing of your Christmas Tree The British Christmas Tree Growers Association (BCTGA) estimates around seven million trees are bought each year in the UK. If not reused or recycled, trees …
Action: Dedicate a tree as a gift
A very special gift Next time you are wondering what to buy someone for Christmas, a birthday, an anniversary, or other celebration, please consider making use of the many schemes …
Action: Refuse to buy fruit and onions in netting
This action is a short, easy one. Please resolve to stop buying fruit and vegetables packaged in this horrible plastic netting. The netting is a completely unnecessary use of plastic. …
Action: Ditch the birthday balloons
Here’s a simple action we can all take at no cost; please stop using rubber or foil balloons as part of your celebrations of birthdays, weddings, anniversaries and so on. …
Action: Try some nature photography
Photography can be a fantastic (and free) way to learn and be inspired by our natural world Today’s action is to test out a potential new hobby – but don’t …
Action: Take our “no plastic” picnic challenge
Your mission, should you choose to accept it … The traditional picnic is a basket of outdoor food, taken to a park or beauty spot. Often lots of packaging is …