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The truth about lightproof milk bottles
Home-delivered milk seemed so sensible, didn’t it? I never understood why that system stopped.
Strawberries in winter
One swallow does not a summer make, they say, and one strawberry doesn’t equal global warming – though I did scratch my head when the plants at the front of my house produced fruit on the shortest day of the year.
The LED revolution has started
One of the advantages of working in publishing is that when your magazine has a really great story, you get to read it before everyone else – which is why I dashed down to the hardware store last weekend.
They’re boring, but by crikey they’re bright…
I don’t know how it goes with you, but in our house there are two very different attitudes to money.
Send in your beer ideas and win
Ah, beer. It is, as Homer Simpson once wisely put it, the cause of, and solution to, most of life’s problems – and right now it’s solving one of my most pressing problems: the blasted plague of slugs attacking my garden.
The habits of happy people
I was chatting to my cousin the other day – he lives in Canada, so we were using a phone app called Voxer (which is a cool new way to communicate, but that’s another story) – and he told me they’d had a presentation at work from a Harvard expert
New year, new office, new garden!
I hope you had a lovely break – and your 2014 got off to a great start. Personally, I’m feeling really good about this year – in fact, I reckon it’s going to be a cracker!
Dishing the dirt
The last time I emailed I was getting far too excited about the new Green Ideas office and the fact we had space for a garden.
Fish pond ideas, a cute swing table, solar power and our seedlings…
Okay, so I have a new hobby, and it's aquaponics.
Welcome to the first Green Ideas enewsletter!
Wow, it’s been a busy week in green circles. Just when we were thinking about our second issue and starting to daydream about the Christmas holidays – bam! – along came the New York Times with a massive kick up the pants for our country’s clean, green reputation.
“Anyone for a dried banana? Honestly, they’re delicious.”
Come snack o’clock in the office, I always like to offer my workmates some of what I’m eating.