These days, it’s quite trendy to holiday in the country. Â As countrified as you can. Â Glamping. Â Staying on eco farms. Â All that sort of thing. One of the great gifts my parents gave me was to take us somewhere in the country for our summer holidays. Â Not quite off-grid, in modern parlance, but sometimes, that …
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Eco audit: one foot, two foot
If you put one foot in front of the other, often enough, pretty soon you’ll discover that walking is the way to get about. Â No parking. Â No timetables. Â And, with a rucksack to hand, you can even schlep your things about too. Not really a huge discovery. Â Except that it’s got to the stage that …
Eco audit: to heat or not to heat
I’ll confess this now. Â I’m writing in bed. Â It’s possibly my favourite place to write. Â And, when you get the luxury of the house to yourself, you get to do what you want a little more. But another reason for writing in bed is because it’s cold. Â It’s still February. Â Snow is coming and going. …
Eco audit: holidays without flying
At the time when my environmentalism was starting to develop, flying was not an Issue. Â It was mostly out of reach – back to factors of cost. Â (I dare say we might have found package deals to Spain, as a family, but we didn’t.) So by my mid-teens, I had been abroad about four times. …
Eco audit: bringing your own food and drink
Back in the holidays of my childhood, if you were travelling – you brought your own food. Â Yes, there were service stations, and you might occasionally be allowed to buy a cup of tea. But you had your packed meal with you, and that was that. I recognise now that cost was probably the main …
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