What are you giving up for Lent this year?
Why not join us and pledge to curb your spending and shrink your carbon footprint?
Buy Less: Live More is a Lent experiment - we want to explore different ways of living life to the full, while treading a little more lightly on the planet we call home.
Visit http://www.buylesslivemore.org.uk to sign up for daily emails during Lent.
If you are a Facebook member join the Buy Less: Live More group and invite your friends to get involved.
Gone shopping?
Or has no new shoes changed our habits?
Friday, 11 January 2008
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Lent in Advent?
Lent 08 starts really early, in fact on February 6th. So amidst the Christmas carols, tinsel and parties some of us at Methodist Church House are getting ready for Lent! One season of preparation and penitence clearly isn't enough!
The Methodist Church was so impressed with our efforts last year that we are going to follow up No New Shoes with a campaign called 'Buy Less : Live More'.
During Lent people who sign up will receive a daily email with 2 challenges/ideas one about buying less and one about 'living more'. So as well as reducing your carbon footprint by getting off the consumer treadmill, you can live life in all its fullness.
We are producing Buy Less: Live More 'credit cards', which you can put in your wallet to remind you to think twice before shopping. These will be available from www.mph.org.uk free (plus postage) in the New Year. We will have some pages on the Methodist Church Website and a Facebook site, where you can sign up for email updates - and we'll keep posting on No New Shoes. Watch this space for more details.
The Methodist Church was so impressed with our efforts last year that we are going to follow up No New Shoes with a campaign called 'Buy Less : Live More'.
During Lent people who sign up will receive a daily email with 2 challenges/ideas one about buying less and one about 'living more'. So as well as reducing your carbon footprint by getting off the consumer treadmill, you can live life in all its fullness.
We are producing Buy Less: Live More 'credit cards', which you can put in your wallet to remind you to think twice before shopping. These will be available from www.mph.org.uk free (plus postage) in the New Year. We will have some pages on the Methodist Church Website and a Facebook site, where you can sign up for email updates - and we'll keep posting on No New Shoes. Watch this space for more details.
Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Fair trade cotton
It's getting colder, so I went to purchase me a vesty top thingy at M&S. It's not just a vest - it's a fairtrade cotton vest (in fact i bought 2 - one black and one white, layers are so helpful at insulating one). So if you are in the mood for winter warming - give M&S a try and go out with the warm glow of knowing your vest is made from cotton that gives farmers a fair deal.
Thursday, 20 September 2007
In the Bag!
Okay, I don't always remember to take non-plastic bags with me to the supermarket, but mostly I do. Or I take the old plastic bags from the cupboard under the stairs (or the European used plastic bag mountain as it is also known), so they get used a few times before their 400 year wait until nature finally wins.
'Bag for Life' offers at our supermarche are a good idea - but much, much, much better is to use fairly traded jute bags, available from Traidcraft, New Internationlist and other such wonderful places.
I support the campaign to emulate Ireland and begin charging for plaggy bags - we'll soon start to remember to take our trendy fair trade environmentally friendly bags with us. And anyway - your wine bottle's much less likely to fall out of a sturdy jute bag than a thin, poorly made, environmentally disastrous carrier.
visit www.green-england.co.uk/plasticbagpetition to add your name to those who support 'old bags' (you know what I mean) or visit www.mrdf.org.uk for more ideas about tackling climate change.
'Bag for Life' offers at our supermarche are a good idea - but much, much, much better is to use fairly traded jute bags, available from Traidcraft, New Internationlist and other such wonderful places.
I support the campaign to emulate Ireland and begin charging for plaggy bags - we'll soon start to remember to take our trendy fair trade environmentally friendly bags with us. And anyway - your wine bottle's much less likely to fall out of a sturdy jute bag than a thin, poorly made, environmentally disastrous carrier.
visit www.green-england.co.uk/plasticbagpetition to add your name to those who support 'old bags' (you know what I mean) or visit www.mrdf.org.uk for more ideas about tackling climate change.
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
Monday, 17 September 2007
Please tell me this counts as ethical shopping!
How much do I LOVE Oxfam's new online charity shop!!!!
Check it out at: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/
It came at just the right time for me. Friday was payday and I have been battling a serious urge to splurge. I was just wondering whether I might succumb to the cheap n cheerful lure of Primark and Matalan. Then - ahh! - came Oxfam's online shop.
It has a whole range of clothes, household items, books, music...you name it. The postage is pretty cheap, you can add a cash donation to your order and you can even Giftaid it!! I ordered on Friday and my first purchase (beautiful skirt from Kew) has already arrived.
I couldn't be a happier bunny.
Okay, it's still rampant consumerism, but the fact that it's all for charidee makes me feel a tad better...
xxx
Check it out at: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/
It came at just the right time for me. Friday was payday and I have been battling a serious urge to splurge. I was just wondering whether I might succumb to the cheap n cheerful lure of Primark and Matalan. Then - ahh! - came Oxfam's online shop.
It has a whole range of clothes, household items, books, music...you name it. The postage is pretty cheap, you can add a cash donation to your order and you can even Giftaid it!! I ordered on Friday and my first purchase (beautiful skirt from Kew) has already arrived.
I couldn't be a happier bunny.
Okay, it's still rampant consumerism, but the fact that it's all for charidee makes me feel a tad better...
xxx
Tuesday, 7 August 2007
Don't take away our guilty pleasures, say women with a secret wardrobe
Don't take away our guilty pleasures, say women with a secret wardrobe:
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The effort some people will go to for a pair of Jimmy Choos...One of these women actually walks round shops with a red pen so that she can make it look like she bought items on discount when her husband asks.
Yeesh.
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