Moving on from The Book of Rubbish Ideas

2010 has been an incredible year for Tracey Smith, author of The Book of Rubbish Ideas and it’s about to roll out with a BANG! Tomorrow morning, on BBC Breakfast Television News and on BBC World, the Global News Network, she’ll be giving her top tips on what to do with a rubbish present….and perhaps [...]

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Video: Tracey Smith & The Book of Rubbish Ideas

I shot a little film recently with a team from Sustainable Somerset, exploring the content of The Book of Rubbish Ideas and I thought you might like a sniff around my kitchen… Please feel free to pinch, publish and pass on! Rubbishly yours, TSx

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Tracey Smith is Officially a ‘Hot Woman’…

I recently met an amazing lady, Louise Burfitt-Dons, head of the Hot Women International Campaign for the Global Alliance…sounds like a bit of a mouthful, but it has a fitting and very worthy title and an enormous task in hand. She officially welcomed me as a Hot Woman, which I’m absolutely delighted about and I [...]

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What on Earth’s an Earthship?

I love hearing from people who are doing amazing things to protect and care for our present and future environments for the generations yet to come. I genuinely feel very excited to be one of many optimistic green activists, at a pivotal point in earth’s history; we are the generation that will make incredible positive [...]

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Author Tackles Great North Swim for Children of Alcoholics

Morning all! Just a shortie to bring you a pressing news item from my local paper. Please find the following article by Joanna Davis printed in today’s Dorset Echo. A DAUGHTER of an alcoholic will be taking the plunge into Lake Windermere to help the children of addicts. Busy mum-of-three, author and broadcaster Tracey Smith [...]

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Earthwise Girls Rule!

Meet mum of 4 and ‘mumpreneur’ Christine McRitchie. She somehow manages to fit in running 3 flourishing internet eco-businesses, alongside the demands of family life. Plush Pants Cloth Nappies was her first venture: “I took on Plush Pants when my youngest baby, Victoria, was just under a year old. It’s been a labour of love and [...]

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Sustainable Garden Pleasures: The Firewinder

Recently, I had the pleasure of driving with Joe Wadsworth in the Brighton to London Eco-Rally.   Aside from being a great co-driver, he’s also partly responsible for waving the flag for the ingenious Firewinder. Here, Joe shares his views on renewable and sustainable energy, as well as letting us into the secrets behind one of the hottest eco-products [...]

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Hair today, gone tomorrow and other things…

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 [...]

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How Do You Ban the Dreaded Plastic Bag?

Ban the Plastic Bag is a small but very evocative read from the green shelf of Fragile Earth Books and essentially, it sets out a community action plan for a carrier bag-free world. Every year 17 billion carrier bags are given away free in the UK;  that means an average of 300 carrier bags for [...]

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Each One Really Does Count!

I’m heading up to the big smoke on Monday, by train of course, to meet the guys at Each One Counts. They run an on-line collection programme for mobile phones and ink jet cartridges and re-manufacture new cartridges for resale. They also work in conjunction with a collective of charities including Battersea Dog and Cats [...]

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