Living Greener

Living Greener: Pledge to have a real Christmas this year

Meaning is something we often lack in modern Christmas celebrations, where we feel pressured to spend too much, eat too much, drink too much, listen to the same few terrible pop songs over and over

Living Greener: Unexpected journeys of the imagination

Living Greener: How to make good use garden scraps

Living Greener: We have lost our way in caring for elderly

Living Greener: We are losing our ideals while belittling the past

Living Greener: Greenhouses are a worthwhile investment

Sun, 07 Sep, 2025

Greenhouses are a handy option for gardeners in most climates, albeit an expensive one

Living Greener Time to embrace self-sufficient housing

Sun, 07 Sep, 2025

Most of our homes require large amounts of energy to run, which we burn fossil fuels to acquire

Living Greener: Tasty kale crisps make for a healthy and tasty alternative

Sun, 31 Aug, 2025

One of the most nutritious of vegetables overall

Living Greener: How I learned to forge a a knife and the importance of traditional skills

Sun, 03 Aug, 2025

Medieval people regarded smiths as they did alchemists, people who could transfigure bits of the world into something else, and doing it feels a bit magical

Living Greener: Quiche a great way to use left overs

Sun, 06 Jul, 2025

An elegant-sounding, delicious, nutritious way to disguise leftovers.

Living Greener: Too many view the environment in the abstract

Sat, 21 Jun, 2025

The environment is the trees and weeds and insects around where we live, and how many of those could most people notice or name?

Living Greener: Turn your roof into a garden

Sun, 08 Jun, 2025

They help insulate your home, which can spare you heating and cooling costs

Living Greener: Our elderly are an astonishing resource

Sun, 25 May, 2025

"I had been an investigative reporter and was not easily shocked, but I kept stopping them in conversation and asking to go back and explain something that sounded unbelievable"

Living Greener: How to use Elderflower in the kitchen

Sun, 18 May, 2025

They don’t do well dried or frozen, so they have to be used quickly, so in those weeks we’re busy using elderflowers any way we can.

Living Greener: Forest gardens are worthy investment

Sun, 11 May, 2025

You are investing in infrastructure like a house

Living Greener: We should cherish stories of our heritage

Sun, 20 Apr, 2025

Today most of us were raised not with the stories of our families and places

Living Greener: Hedge schools have many lessons for us

Sun, 13 Apr, 2025

Teachers held classes in woods or in the corners of fields, teaching boys and girls alike, surrounded by hedges that hid them from passers-by.

Living Greener: Comic strips give glimpse into past

Sun, 16 Mar, 2025

Few parents would allow their child to wander the neighbourhood unsupervised, or play in the woods, or wander in and out of other houses

Living Greener: Veg does not have to go to waste

Sun, 09 Mar, 2025

Look at the food we throw away and realise how much of it is quite edible

Living Greener: Embrace relationships, they form our community

Sun, 02 Mar, 2025

We screen out most of the relationships that would truly help us grow into understanding adults.

Living Greener: Humble willows could solve many problems

Sun, 23 Feb, 2025

Few trees have as many uses

Living Greener: Snails are our lowest-maintenance livestock

Sun, 12 Jan, 2025

The common snails seen in Irish gardens are the same species as restaurant snails and are perfectly edible

Living Greener: Cut down on energy costs with these simple tips

Sun, 05 Jan, 2025

We use many times more energy keeping warm than our ancestors did

Living Greener: Turn the lights off, there is no need to fear the dark

Sun, 22 Dec, 2024

Continuous brightness for a lifetime as we have today, however, might be as bad as one continuous kind of food for a lifetime.

Living Greener: Communities should bypass the supermarkets and buy straight from farmers

Sun, 15 Dec, 2024

An interesting proposal

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