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Offsetting the Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Your Flights
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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...
LONG READ EXPLAINER: Why should the UK get to Net Zero? What is the benefit? [15 minutes]
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(TLDR – skip to two FREE Conversation Guides – to 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've thought a LOT about how to respond to this statement. I made several (failed) starts to gather my thoughts into something coherent, until I realised that the disconnect came from the differing points from which we were both starting. As someone who works, and volunteers, in the climate space, I approach Net Zero from a scientific...
Easy Ways to Help the Climate that Ease Anxiety, but Don’t Cost Much Time or Money
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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...
Contented Company, Contented Earth: Ethical, Sustainable & Climate Friendly Small Business
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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...
🌱 63 Plastic Free & Reusable Products for Plastic Free July 🌱
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Plastic seems to be everywhere. At times it can feel unavoidable (especially in recent months), despite us all knowing that it takes between 500-1,000 years to break down. And even then, what is left is harmful micro-plastics that pollute our environment, water systems, food chains, oceans and ultimately our bodies. But it IS possible to make swaps. There ARE plastic free alternatives out there. Plastic Free July is a personal challenge that is part of a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans,...
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