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Offsetting the Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Your Flights

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Offsetting the Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Your Flights

  With the Summer holidays fast approaching, many Brits will be thinking of jetting off from the UK to sunnier shores.   If you’re planning to hop on a plane this Summer, have you ever thought about the carbon cost of your holiday?   Your Carbon Footprint   Whilst the notion of a carbon footprint may be problematic in terms of fossil fuel companies off-loading their responsibility to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on to individual consumers, it is still a helpful tool. It helps us see a breakdown of the carbon impact of our choices as consumers.   Did you...

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LONG READ EXPLAINER: Why should the UK get to Net Zero? Won’t it cost us too much? What is the benefit? [15 minutes]

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LONG READ EXPLAINER: Why should the UK get to Net Zero? Won’t it cost us too much? What is the benefit? [15 minutes]

(TLDR – skip to two FREE Conversation Guides – two help you talk about Net Zero with your friends and family.)   1.       What’s the benefit of Net Zero?   “I can’t see how Net Zero is possible or beneficial to us.”   I have been thinking a LOT about how to respond to this statement a friend made to me a couple of months ago. (And this question has freshly hit the headlines again in the UK with Kemi Badenoch’s recent speech.)   I made several (failed) starts to gather my thoughts into something coherent, until I realised that...

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Easy Ways to Help the Climate that Ease Anxiety, but Don’t Cost Much Time or Money

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Easy Ways to Help the Climate that Ease Anxiety, but Don’t Cost Much Time or Money

Top feelings are:   (TLDR – skip to How to Help - when you don’t have much time 👇)   Thank you First of all a HUGE thank you to everyone who answered my recent survey, I really appreciate it. The responses will give me a better understanding of people’s thoughts and feelings, and help me shape the content I create for my work and how I can best support people.   Contented Earth Climate Survey January 2025 Secondly, if you haven’t yet responded, but still want to do so you can do so using the following links: 1) For...

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Global Climate Strikes: Did you strike?

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Global Climate Strikes: Did you strike?

Friday 20th September, around the world, people took part in the Global Climate Strikes. Were you there? Did you strike? Did your kids? Did your kids’ schools do anything?Weren’t the scenes of the strikes around the world so inspiring and energising? In particular the picture of the strike @gretathunberg posted happening in Afghanistan. This is, as she says, a globally emergency. And it seemed on Friday that we came together around the world to acknowledge this and lobby politicians and big businesses to do more.Sadly, I wasn’t there. My 7YO was off school ill with a cold. I was gutted. But I...

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Contented Company, Contented Earth: Ethical, Sustainable & Climate Friendly Small Business

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Contented Company, Contented Earth: Ethical, Sustainable & Climate Friendly Small Business

Ethical and Sustainable Living as ethically and sustainably as possible has always been one of my core values. So when I started The Contented Company (and Contented Earth especially), I wanted those values to be at the core of the business too.  Whilst no-one can ever be perfect, making the best possible choice available at every decision is something I don’t take lightly – from choosing which products we stock, to how we handle your order, to how we get it to you, to how we try to have a positive impact on the world as a business. I’d love...

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