The Book of Rubbish Ideas positively celebrates reducing waste in your home and keeping more money in your pocket by being savvy with some of your shopping ideas. Of course, cooking from fresh is a terrific way of combining both and I’ve been doing it for years. I started making simple recipe loaves and rolls [...]
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Save Money, Reduce Rubbish: Workshops with Tracey Smith
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish events, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish news, Rubbish products, Rubbish recipes, tagged Book of Rubbish Ideas, Bread Making, Eco-experience, flatbreads, Frugality, Jurassic Coast, Lyme Regis, Tracey Smith on 30 November 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From the lovely John Naish on The Landfill Prize!
Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish activism, Rubbish events, Rubbish news, tagged Anna Shepherd, Ben Davis, Buy Less Crap, Carl Honoré, Enough: Breaking Free From the World of More, How Green Are My Wellies, In Praise of Slow, John Naish, The Landfill Prize on 6 January 2010 | 2 Comments »
Golf club-shaped urinal, anyone? Motorised ice-cream cone holder? In the depths of the global crunch, why would anyone want to waste precious money on pointless junk that ends up in the trashcan after a couple of uses? But sales of consumer nonsense are still rocketing – stuff such as wand-shaped TV remote controls, desk-top hoovers, [...]
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 [...]
A Weekend of Talking Rubbish!
Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish events, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish on the Radio, Rubbish recipes, Tracey Smith reads from her Book of Rubbish Ideas, tagged Apple AM, Dorchester Festival, Hospital Radio, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, Tracey Smith on 2 May 2009 | 4 Comments »
Hi all! Just a shortie, boy have I got a packed weekend ahead of me. On Saturday, I’ll be broadcasting an hour of my ‘Slow Down and Green Up’ radio show (usual slot every Wednesday between 10 and 1pm) in celebration of the fact that our radio station has been broadcasting for 40 years to [...]
Come and See Me at UK Aware (and would you like a free ticket?)
Posted in Rubbish events, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish Media, Rubbish news, tagged Dave Hampton, lego, Olympia, The Carbon Coach, Tracey Smith, UK Aware on 11 April 2009 | 3 Comments »
Hi all, I realise I’ve been conspicuous in my absence lately – don’t tang me – I’ve been way past busy! And regular readers here will know I advocate a proper work/life balance – that’s essential to keeping your sanity and making all the pieces fit. Actually, I’ve only hopped onto the computer to take [...]
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