Comments on: Global footprint/earth day http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/04/22/global-earth-day/ The life and education of two growing beans - our 10th year of blogging Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:18:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.34 By: Petits Haricots » Blog Archive » my ecological footprint http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/04/22/global-earth-day/#comment-2785 Wed, 02 May 2007 23:50:06 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/04/22/global-earth-day/#comment-2785 [...] I have been doing this yearly since blogging [pre and post changes in lifestyle!] [...]

]]> By: Chris http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/04/22/global-earth-day/#comment-2784 Sun, 23 Apr 2006 06:01:49 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/04/22/global-earth-day/#comment-2784 Yeah but governments and big business tend to deliver what their ‘customers’ demand……the only way they will change is if individuals change their demands. I am very ungreen but I don’t suggest that somehow it is not *my* responsibility. If you fly here there and everywhere ;-) you are damaging the enviroment much more than those who live a similar life but don’t.

]]> By: Helen http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/04/22/global-earth-day/#comment-2783 Sat, 22 Apr 2006 22:01:28 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/04/22/global-earth-day/#comment-2783 i think ros may have meant that governments and big business concerns hae a much greater impact and much more opportunity to make a meaningful difference?

i will certainly aim to live with a small a footprint as i can, but not in a yurt!
however i would be interested in solar and wind electricity sources – both mine if i can, and local. i aim to buy organic and local what i dont grow. my ‘buying’ i hope will be ethical as poss.

]]> By: Chris http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/04/22/global-earth-day/#comment-2782 Sat, 22 Apr 2006 21:15:44 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/04/22/global-earth-day/#comment-2782 What are the bigger causes other than humans Ros’?

]]> By: Helen http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/04/22/global-earth-day/#comment-2781 Sat, 22 Apr 2006 20:55:56 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/04/22/global-earth-day/#comment-2781 I agree Ros, I love our house, and not at all abashed by its dreadful ecological footprint!
I am an imperfect ecological woman, what I can do I will, and what I don’t want too…

lodger tempting though Jax

]]> By: Merry http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/04/22/global-earth-day/#comment-2780 Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:28:54 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/04/22/global-earth-day/#comment-2780 1.8 for us. :)

]]> By: jax http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/04/22/global-earth-day/#comment-2779 Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:15:48 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/04/22/global-earth-day/#comment-2779 Take in a lodger or two? I can think of some volunteers ;)

]]> By: Roslyn http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/04/22/global-earth-day/#comment-2778 Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:52:22 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/04/22/global-earth-day/#comment-2778 Pah! You enjoy your beautiful home! You work hard enough and are away from it enough. Can’t be doing with guilt on top of everything else. You do your bit as do we all but we have to live and we have a certain role to play. If you didn’t work we would be lacking in a vital area etc etc. I gave up guilt years ago and enjoy my life as much as I can. I walk when I can, eat and cook fresh but I adore my house, my holidays and traveling to see friends. I personnaly think it far more important to be a good person and to be a good friend. There are far bigger causes to earths destruction than us and I’m fed up with being told otherwise.

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