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Climate Change

Lazy green stuff

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Igglepigglesgrubbyblanket · 10/03/2021 08:33

Only slightly tongue in cheek...
I was wondering if anyone has found good lazy green changes they can make?
Here are a few of mine:
Barilla pasta is plastic free
Ditto potato waffles rather than oven chips
Ocado zoom delivers in paper bags
Weedy gardens are great for biodiversity
Ditto just raking all the leaves into a pile & leaving them there over winter.
Changing to a green energy supplier is reasonably easy & only needs to be done once
Anyone got any more?

OP posts:
2021willgetbetter · 11/03/2021 19:39

We've given up mowing the garden
And seed / plant swaps

gospelsinger · 22/04/2021 15:30

Generally not buying stuff.

Lavinia321 · 21/05/2021 12:15

Thanks, what a good idea for a thread. I’m trying really hard but it’s difficult to minimised packaging as everything comes from the supermarket wrapped in so much.

We have doorstop milk in glass bottles that get picked back up and reused. We were going through a shocking amount of plastic bottles before.

rivierliedje · 22/08/2021 08:24

Letting the garden go wild
Letting your body hair go wild
Having fewer showers
Cleaning less (and then only using vinegar etc)
Buying less
Taking kids to the woods/park, setting up a picnic blanket with food from home, pile of books etc and letting them roam free and play instead of going from activity to activity
Borrowing (e)books from the library rather than buying your own
Switiching to green energy supplier
Switching to green/charity bank
Flicking the off switch at the socket
Going shopping for fun, but only in charity/vintage/second hand shops
Letting kids be crafty with the recycling, rather than buying kits
Joining facebook freecycle/giving away groups
Seed swaps
Planting from fruit and veg you are eating (I currently have chickpea, corn, sunflowers, scallions, peas, lemon, mango plants growing from their seeds/cuttings) instead of buying plants
Foraging as a fun activity that you can then make crumble, cordial etc from
Letting the nettles grow and picking them to use in cooking (just like spinach)
Maybe not quite so lazy, but could get an older child to do it: make biscuits/cakes at home for snacks (ingredients come with much less plastic packaging than snacks themselves do)
Have friends/family with children slightly older and slightly younger than your own and pass clothes and toys around (no need to think about bying or decluttering then)
Send invitations as emails/texts rather than cards

MsWalterMitty · 29/10/2021 17:31

This is a fab thread! Shame it’s in the climate change section… although the right section! It’s just not as busy as the chat. It’d be a great way of showing awareness

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