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.

Do you actually mean it when you say, and I quote (not word for word, though) that you don't understand why keeping geese has gone out of fashion?

Peter Rabbit gets right up my nose-what sort of organic pesticide can I use to stop the little shit eating my veg?

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Is it the beginning of April?

A big organic club with some nice ethically sourced hobnails in it I think
Have an inbuilt resistance to being told what to do by any relative of James Goldsmith, sorry

OK, I?m probably going to get jumped on here, and I acknowledge that is a far more widespread semantic issue that just MN, BUT ecology ?is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of life and the interactions between organisms and their environment?.

It has nothing to go with organic twiggy hearts and linen bunting. And nothing at all to do with farking Beatrix Potter. This ?greenness? and ?eco? lifestyle as a marketing tool has very little to do with science or ecology and like many others here I seriously doubt that much of what is peddled as "ecologically" aspirational is actually benefiting the environment.

Bourdoiriccia I see your point but I think "eco" is actually short for "ecologically friendly" which makes a bit more sense.

Also I would very much like to know if you really do, as you claim, only use organic skincare/cosmetics.

oh motherinferior really you do harp on

if you've got room for two children then surely you could pack in a couple of geese

don't you have a downstairs lav?

what do you do if you're skint?

and by that I don't mean skint with land in which to grow your own vegetables

I'd put money on our cats versus geese, Cappster.

Can it ever be justified in green terms owning more than one property as a single family?

Are glossy magazines green? Or is the whole publishing industry rife with hypocrisy on this issue?

Do you think people are going to eventually stop wanting to do these live chats?

(That wasn't to SG - that was to the Nest of Vipers )

isn't aspirational living contributing to the collapse of the British farming economy?

I knew a farmer who lived in a semi miles away from his fields because so many farmhouses were being sold on with small 'hobby' parcels of farmland to people moving from the city or wanting a second home, and making it practically impossible to buy a working farm alongside a family home

aren't designer fairtrade T shirts just a load of old shite?

they take up far more of the earth's resources than just getting used to wearing stuff for longer

It is important to be asked proper questions though.
It's like seeing Tony Blair interviewed by Fiona Phillips [simper and easy] on GMTV versus the Today programme R4[trial by questions].
I fondly imagine MN in the latter category and netmums and babyworld in the former

I saw a really funny cartoon in a mag where a woman has a cupboard stuffed full of carrier bags, and in the next window she has gone all "eco friendly" and has a cupboard full of fairtrade organic cotton shopping bags that she made herself buy at £5 a go every time she went to the shop because she always forgot to take one with her

True darrell, I just wonder if many of them realised that they would have to work so hard

Is it eco-friendly to have 3 children?

Some people think giving countrified green lifestyle gifts is an eco contribution, is that actually green or just consumerist ...wouldn't giving no unnecessary gifts be greener?

Would you consider giving nothing but good wishes?

What eco changes have you made that were very difficult for you, or do you only believe in making relatively easy and pain free changes?

Yes, good point Darth Vader, given that one of the greatest threats to global biodiversity is the rapidly increasing human population...

Wouldn't providing education and birth control to women throughout the world who currently have no access be far better than publishing "green" Peter Rabbit books?