Not the most fetching of outfits I know, but here’s me in my neoprene wetsuit, getting ready to depart for Lake Windermere to take part in the second Great North Swim. It was the inaugural GNS at Windermere that took place last September that first hooked me in. In 2008, around 2,000 competitors swam a [...]
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The Conclusion of My Great North Swim
Posted in NACOA, Rubbish celebrities, Rubbish news, tagged British Gas, NACOA, The Great North Swim, Tracey Smith on 15 December 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve Got Rubbish ‘Ways With Words’
Posted in General rubbish, Household rubbish, Rubbish celebrities, Rubbish events, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish news, Rubbish Q&A, tagged Dartington Hall, Devon, Green Books, Literary Festival, Rob Hopkins, Shaun Chamberlain, Tamzin Pinkerton, Totnes, Tracey Smith, Ways With Words on 12 July 2009 | 10 Comments »
Of all the Literary Festivals I’ve appeared at this year, Ways With Words at the beautiful Dartington Hall in Totnes is the one that has given me the biggest squidgy feeling in the pit of my stomach. The annual festival takes place from July 10-19 at Dartington Hall in South Devon and my slot is carved into [...]
Hair today, gone tomorrow and other things…
Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish celebrities, Rubbish events, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish Media, Rubbish news, tagged Abby Maitland, BBC Somerset, Co-Op Magazine, Corsham Literary Festival, Eco-Rally, Herb UK, Primeval, Recycle More, Solar Technology, summer hairstyles 2009, The Book of Green, The Soil Association, Tracey Smith, Ways With Words Literary Festival on 16 June 2009 | 10 Comments »
Afternoon all and sundry. After many happy years of gert lush long hair flapping about in any sort of a wind, I decided to have it all lopped off. It was a decision I took a few weeks ago and I thought I’d just kick it around a bit before heading for the scissors to [...]
Eco-Chick Rallies from Brighton to London in a Winner
Posted in Rubbish celebrities, Rubbish events, Rubbish Media, Rubbish news, Uncategorized, tagged Boris Johnson, Brighton, City Hall, eco-rally 2009, Joanna Yarrow, London, Penney Poyzer, Quentin Willson, Robert Llewellyn, Tracey Smith, Volvo S40 DrivE, Zac Goldsmith on 9 June 2009 | 8 Comments »
Phew! I’m home from the 2009 Eco-Rally and oh, what a gig it was. Late Sunday night found me and my co-driver Joe Wadsworth hovering outside the Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton, awaiting a full collective of hungry eco-celebs (Quentin Willson, Robert Llewellyn, Penney Poyzer and more)… After the exciting arrival of the Tesla and [...]
The Woodland Trust Launches Their Annual Christmas Card Recycling Campaign
Posted in Paper rubbish, Rubbish celebrities, Rubbish news, tagged Christmas card recycling, Christmas Card Recycling Scheme, Christmas cards, Coronation Street, Recycling, Robert Lane, Samia Smith, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, The Woodland Trust, woodland conservation on 8 December 2008 | 4 Comments »
The resources section at the back of The Book of Rubbish Ideas is packed out with some of the most inspirational, eco-friendly innovators and The Woodland Trust is no exception. They do incredible work protecting and planting new areas of woodland and ensuring we have lots of lovely clean air to breathe! Recently, I [...]
Who Would You Give the Landfill Prize to?
Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish activism, Rubbish celebrities, tagged Carl Honoré, consumerism, Enough: Breaking Free From the World of More, John Naish, Landfill, Landfill Prize, waste on 23 October 2008 | 9 Comments »
[EDIT - HOT NEWS JUST RECEIVED FROM JOHN NAISH!] I came across the Landfill Prize earlier this year whilst chatting to my good friend author Carl Honoré, who’d been signed up as a judge; incidentally, he’s also one of my celebrity case studies in the book. The Landfill Prize was the brainchild of John Naish, author [...]
How To: Take the Chutney Challenge and Reuse Your Glass Jars
Posted in Rubbish celebrities, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish recipes, tagged beat the credit crunch, chutney, how to made chutney, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, money saving tips, River Cottage on 16 September 2008 | 8 Comments »
I must confess I haven’t made any chutney for a few years – I’ve been a very lucky girl and on the receiving end from a few preserve loving chums instead. The first time I made it however, I seem to remember I was making good of a massive glut of courgettes and onions and [...]
Eco-Celebs
Posted in Rubbish celebrities, Rubbish Interviews, tagged Al Gore, Alex James, Cameron Diaz, Celebrity, Chris Martin, Gwen Stefani, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hayden Panettiere, Leonardo DiCaprio, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, Tobey Maguire on 5 August 2008 | 4 Comments »
The world of celebrity is so mightily powerful; in truth, it’s probably immeasurable. One of my hopes in writing ‘The Book of Rubbish Ideas’ was that I might be able to tap into some of this energy and encourage changes in sustainable behaviour by showing how the international ‘stars’ do green! These days, the definition [...]
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