Live chat with Sheherazade Goldsmith Wednesday June 18th 1-2pm

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You magazine eco columnist and editor of a Slice of Organic Life, Sheherazade Goldsmith, will be joining us for an online chat to share her green tips on Wednesday June 18th from 1-2pm. Sheharazade is an eco mum with three children under ten. She's launching the Peter Rabbit Naturally Better initiative which sees the well-loved Beatrix Potter creation become the first ever licensed character to go green.

Created in 1893, the naughty little rabbit is the oldest licensed children's character in the world and this new initiative reflects the importance that Beatrix Potter placed on the natural world and the environment.

If you can't make it on Weds, you can post your questions in advance here. Otherwise, we'll see you with your organic salads (home grown of course ) on weds lunchtime.

*awaits tomorrow with far too much glee....

[rubs hands]

Tell us, dear eco mum, now Peter Rabbit has become the first ever licensed character to go green, would you like to see all licensed characters become green within the next 10 years? Should we be aiming for 20% of licensed characters to become green by the end of 2008 and forget Kyoto?

Should Batman be cleaning his toilet in a higher profile manner with sea salt? Should he ditch the batmobile for lift-share?

And again I ask under the relative comfort of my mumsnet pseudonym "Isn't it true that farting by man and beast is the real green issue that darest not speak its name?" ~If Diana was our Queen of Hearts there is surely a mantle yet to be taken up as Queen of Farts?

you are all so norty

I love you all so....

Peter Rabbit went green in 1902 I thought. From eating too much organic lettuce.

Just spotted this thread. That'll teach me not to ignore stickies.

Surely Sheherazade will have squeezed away under the garden gate by now.

I would turn up for chats with genuinely interesting people who have achieved amazing "things, people whose life I can relate to, people with interesting jobs, people who have faced huge challenges, and/or people who can have an impact on my life. in fact, thinking about it, I do. most nights. this is mumsnet and it's full of intelligent, eloquent, interesting people, not some dippy cross between Hello! magazine and fluffy-bunnies-r-us-net. tell her there's been a terrible mistake."

oh yes, I agree. To reiterate my original post (many eons ago) I'm actually pretty disappointed about the fact that mn have agreed to her doing a live chat.

i snigger every time this appears in active convos

I'll tell you what though - if she turns up after this the woman must have big balls.

If she comes I shall doff my cap, as I wouldn't do it for all the tea in China!

I'm gutted as I thought I'd be at home 12-1 tomorrow but have got some work on now...

Will the live chat show in a convo later on? How will I know if she turns up? How do you pelt people virtually with rotten (organic home grown of course) fruit?

I just had a thought - maybe she won't turn up - but will compose her next column all about this vile cesspit of the internet.....

I'm not quite sure I get exactly how Peter Rabbit is going to "go green". Is he going to haul his recycling down to the bottle-bank at the end of the garden? Or be aware of his carbon footprint when travelling to get lettuce?

Maybe I'm not the best person to ask, seeing as I always thought he got his just desserts anyway being captured by Mr McGregor - after all, he disobeyed his mother's instructions and ate food that didn't belong to him. So I was always a bit disappointed that the little shit actually escaped.

OH.

MY.

GOD.

i had been avoiding this thread as i thought 'wtf do i need to hear about green living from some trust fund princess who gets jobs purely on the strength of her surname?' [professional jealousy icon]

and now it turns out that i've Missed This...

what are you thinking of MNHQ? this is a serious misfire and it could and should have been predicted. i actually feel sorry for her, truly i do, she's had some very bad advise from her people if they think that MN is somewhere that takes this ridiculous fluff seriously.

Actually it is just deserts. Not desserts. I apologise to the Pedants. (It's all to do with getting what you "deserve", and nothing to do with puddings.)

lol at UQ, i've always found Peter Rabbit charmless as well.

is this car-crash-mn?

this is indeed. poor woman. i wonder if she'll show?

Will she, won't she...?
And will she really read through all this.
I think she's completely the wrong person for a MN live web chat but a feel a bit uncomfortable to think she'll read some of these posts.

LOL at the Kyoto rabbit!

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wondering who else is posting here this morning to get it in their active convos list

I really would like a discussion on how to be eco/ethical etc on a tight budget, but somehow I think that might be a pointless question on this live chat....

also how people who live in urban terraced houses who shop in aupermarkets and diy stores and cheap chemists can be ethical

and who are stressed out with other problems

I took ds1 to a very well known local (Devon based) organic farm shop once - the Goldsmiths farm probably supplies the shop- he was looked at with utter contempt- he wasn't doing any harm, wasn't getting in anyone's way, he was just acting severely autistic - as tends to happen when you are. I thought it was a one off, but my friend had the exact same experience with her autistic child (except she was asked to leave the shop).

So can I have a recommendation for an organic farm shop in Devon that welcomes children with disabilties please.

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that is appalling...

i have found a nice farm shop here but it is only sensible if i go to it when i go to college

which i wont be doing after the next two weeks

it is too far away for a special journey

i have looked at eg able and cole website and the prices are absurd

and it does seem to me that a lot of organic/ethical/green retailking is premium retailing so the price is a part of the whole marketing exercise as people like to spend money because it makes the product feel exclusive and that is the "added value" that these brands are offering

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i am hoping to make my garden..which is on my profile into somewhere that produces food...actually that space has to make two little courtyard gardens

and doing it on a budget

diy

there must be lots of people with similar problems

i dont have any soil so how do you find cheap ethicasl soil for your growing medium and what is the best way to build a garden ethically in anurban space, i am re using materials where i can