Posted in Caring for the Planet, tagged babies, breeding, children, environment, VHEMT on April 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
According to VHEMT founder Les U. Knight, this is the moral equivalent to having children in the age of impending destruction in which we live.
And, for all the carbon offsetting, recycling and frugality, another person adding to the burgeoning 6 million plus world population will add to the burden for all of us. Received wisdom of [...]
Posted in Caring for the Planet, Vegetarian and Vegan stuff, tagged Burberry, fur, Ioan Gruffudd, PETA on March 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Apart from the fact that its check design is beloved of chavs everywhere, and that I can’t actually afford designer clobber.
No, Burberry is one of those anachronistic fashion houses which still uses animal fur in its designs. It’s amazing to think that anyone would want to put their name to something that causes [...]
Posted in Caring for the Planet, Vegetarian and Vegan stuff, tagged diet, health, vegetarianism on February 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Giving up meat. As simple as that. Giving up something I don’t really need and want less and less wasn’t really a sacrifice in the conventional sense of the word. I like and prefer vegetarian food, and although when I started to re-assess my life last July during a period of depression, going veggie wasn’t [...]
Posted in Caring for the Planet, habits and addictions, tagged buy nothing day, Christmas, consumerism, shopping on November 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Heads up: Buy Nothing Day will take place on Saturday 24th November this year.
This event has been going on for years and it’s the most effective way of fighting the net of consumerism which engulfs us all. The event was originally timed to coincide with one of the busiest shopping days in the US, between [...]
Posted in Caring for the Planet, Wedding News, tagged Caring for the Planet, vegetarian, Wedding News on October 28, 2007 | No Comments »
HTB and I occasionally have a wedding talk, and then the conversation turns to something else. You see, there must be something wrong with me, because I’m not all a-flutter about our impending nuptials. According to various wedding propaganda machines, the cost of the average wedding appears to be between £13,000 and £17,000. This is [...]
