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International Repair Day!
https://openrepair.org/international-repair-day/ This year the spotlight is clearly on its beneficial impact on emissions. Two things are definitely true : if you look after what you already have better you will extend the life of your goods and reduce emissions generated to meet your demands. Secondly, as a society our efforts to find and engage repairers…
Megan Wynne-Jones – Byron
Sewing day at a friends place today : mending and re-purposing our clothes, bedding and cushions – good for our planet and fun for us ! We fixed up two cushions, including one made by my son when he was 5 ( a long time ago!) – mended three dresses and a shirt, made a…
The war on waste
Libraries of Things are sprouting up all over the world.
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Learn Low Carbon Living at the Byron Community College
The list of courses on offer is so extensive we’ve decided to just list the Sustainable Living courses in this post that start in February. In addition to learning skills that will reduce your footprint studying locally is a great way to meet likeminded people. The office at the college reopens after the Christmas break…
Annett Welss – Byron
For the last three years, we have been transforming our food and toilet waste into cooking gas and liquid fertiliser concentrate (see Living tiny and green) The whole setup is carbon-neutral because biomaterial which was created through photosynthesis pulls carbon out of the atmosphere, and once burned as energy will go back as CO2. The…
FFPA Winner: Cycling to weekly exercise class
“This is my friend and I deciding to cycle to our weekly exercise class, instead of using the car for the 5-minute drive. We just leave 20 minutes extra time on either side and get extra exercise into the bargain. The matching t-shirts was just a co-incidence but illustrates our point beautifully.”