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Melati and Isabel Wijsen: Our campaign to ban plastic bags in Bali

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Plastic bags are essentially indestructible, yet they're used and thrown away with reckless abandon. Most end up in the ocean, where they pollute the water and harm marine life; the rest are burned in garbage piles, where they release harmful dioxins into the atmosphere.

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Top Eco Wedding Trends 2022 Revealed By Google Data

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The top eco wedding trends for 2022 have been revealed by wedding finance experts at money.co.uk The biggest trend is in-season wedding flowers which have seen a 200% rise in Google searches in the last 12 months Renting outfits is also trending, renting bridesmaid dresses has +181% searches and ren…

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Do you love hedgehogs? Here's a way to make a hedgehog house at home :)

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You will need:

a sheet of wood
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a spade
gardening gloves

1. Scout your garden for a flat, quiet and shady spot to set up a hedgehog house. An area close to a garden boundary is ideal, such as at the foot of a wall or fence.

2. Before you start building, put on a pair of gardening gloves to help protect your hands from scrapes and splinters.

3. Use a spade to dig a hole about seven centimetres deep and 45 centimetres wide.

4. Fill the base of the hole with a thin layer of dry leaf litter - dead plant material such as leaves, twigs and bark that have fallen to the ground.

5. Lay bricks around the outer edge of the hole, making sure to leave a gap for the entrance.

6. Build up the walls by placing two layers of bricks on top of the first, overlapping them so the structure is stable. For the tunnel, use two bricks across the gap to make a roof.

7. Place a sheet of wood on top of the house for the roof.

8. Stack logs on top of the roof to weight it down. Add more logs at the sides of the house for camouflage and to help attract insects, which are an important food source for hedgehogs. You could also add leaf litter for more camouflage.

9. The house is now ready for a hedgehog to move in. Try to leave this area of the garden undisturbed, but you could leave a twig across the entrance - if it moves, you'll know an animal has likely visited the house.

Alternative materials

You don't necessarily need to buy brand-new materials for this project. See if you or anyone in your local area has old bricks or dry wood you could use.

Instead of a sheet of wood for the roof, you could use a large paving slab, which will be too heavy for predators such as cats to move.

A large plastic box is another option for the house, but make sure to cut an entrance and plenty of breathing holes. Camouflage the box in the same way, with logs and leaf litter.

Any additional leaf litter near the house may be claimed by a hedgehog and taken inside to be used as extra bedding. Instead of a house, you could simply make a messy patch of leaves and logs in a quiet area of your garden. A hedgehog may choose to hibernate or nest there.

You don't need to put food or water inside the house. However, if you do like to leave food out for hedgehogs, it's best to place it a little way away so it doesn't attract other animals into the house. Wet or crushed-up dry cat food are good options, but avoid serving milk and mealworms as these can upset hedgehog stomachs.

Cleaning the hedgehog house

Cleaning a hedgehog house is important. It reduces the chances of parasites such as ticks and fleas being transferred through the nest. Removing old bedding and dousing the inside of the box with boiling water should kill any parasites.

This should only be done when you are sure there are no hedgehog occupants. There are two opportunities to clean a hedgehog house each year. The first is in April, when a hedgehog will vacate the house after coming out of hibernation.

The house may then be used as a nest between May and September, when litters of hoglets are born. By October, most baby hedgehogs will have been weaned, so you may have a chance to clean the house before it is occupied again for winter hibernation.

By weighting down the roof with logs rather than nailing it shut, you will be able to remove it to clean the inside. If you carefully lift the roof and there is hedgehog in the house, quietly replace the lid and leave it be. Disturbing a nesting female may cause her to abandon her hoglets.

As it is best to leave the hog house undisturbed, you could use trail cameras to keep an eye on activity at the entrance of your hog home. You could also leave a twig or scrunched-up paper at the entrance in the evening - if this hasn't moved by morning, the house may be empty or occupied by a hibernating hedgehog.

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Hedgehog highway

Hedgehogs need a way into your garden to get to your newly built house. A hedgehog highway is one way to provide access.

To make a hedgehog highway, cut a small hole in the bottom of your garden fence, dig a tunnel underneath it or remove a brick or two from the base of a wall, if it is safe to do so. If you share a fence or garden wall with neighbours, be sure to get their consent first.

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For those of you who love David Attenborough, here's 94 seconds showing the last 94 years of his career.

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Ewan Jones and his wife Isabelle began their journey to net zero in 2015, installing a heat pump, solar panels and insulating each room to help them create and maintain energy without burning a single fossil fuel.

This transformation has seen Ewan and Isabelle witness remarkable results, with the couple now generating more electricity than they could use in a year.

Ewan Jones, of Burley, Leeds, has fitted an air source heat pump, solar panels, and more internal insulation to his home to make it more energy efficient.

The YEP spoke to Ewan about how achievable net zero is for the average homeowner, and asked for his advice for people considering a more sustainable way of life.

"I work as an engineering consultant for a big consultancy firm doing energy efficiency and renewable energy in buildings," explained Ewan.

"What that practically means is I spend my days writing reports and doing calculations to work out the best way to make a new building more energy efficient, but I wanted to put that into practice.

Ewan Jones, of Burley, Leeds, has fitted an air source heat pump, solar panels, and more internal insulation to his home to make it more energy efficient.

"It's very well to say, oh, we need to insulate this building, but actually to understand what that means practically - what's the process that you go through? What are the challenges? I wanted to work through that process."

Setting up an online blog to chronicle their journey, both Ewan and Isabelle began to research how they could best insulate their own home to reduce energy usage, eventually speaking to a specialist in the field.

"[My wife and I] helped organise a conference in 2011 and through that, we met a guy who set up a business insulating houses like ours. We asked him to come and give us a quote for insulating our house, but he said it would take him about three weeks and he didn't have the time to do it. Instead he said he'd teach us to do it if we paid him a day rate."

Ewan Jones, of Burley, Leeds, has fitted an air source heat pump, solar panels, and more internal insulation to his home to make it more energy efficient.

After an intensive day of learning, work began. Stripping back plaster and window sills, one room at a time, the pair were able to source weak spots of heat loss and insulate them, gluing PIR insulation boards to each bare surface before redecorating.

"It's pretty straightforward," Ewan said.

"So I'd say take the opportunity if you're looking at doing a particular room, getting a new bathroom or a new kitchen - redecorate the room. That's the time to do it because it is disruptive and makes a mess so you'll need to redecorate anyway. Pick the room that's in greatest need of redecoration first."

But their work wasn't over just yet.

After finishing the insulation of each room in the house, Ewan and Isabelle felt that they wanted to go further to reduce their environmental impact.

Saving up over lockdown, the pair were able to purchase a heat pump and solar panels to avoid using any more nonrenewable resources, severing their gas connection at the same time.

"We just got fed up knowing that we were burning fossil fuels for the heating so the solution to that was to change the boiler and get solar panels.

"At the moment heat pumps don't necessarily save you money, because whilst they're very efficient, they're using electricity and electricity costs more than gas. But one of the big things to do if you're switching to a heat pump is to also get rid of all the other ways you might be using gas.

"So if you've got a gas fire or gas cooker, get rid of them at the same time. You can then disconnect the gas and that means you're then not paying about £100 a year for the standing charge."

So was all this hard work worth it? Both Ewan and Isabelle think so.

"Typically what we used to do with the gas boiler was run the heating for two or three hours in the evening on a cold winter's night," explained Ewan.

"We might have managed to get the house heated to 16 degrees and then we'd turn the heating off and go to bed. Some days it was 12 degrees by the time I woke up in our bedroom, and that's the sort of temperature where you can see your breath - very difficult to persuade yourself to get out of bed!

"[At 12 degrees] you'd have condensation forming on the ceiling so there were mold issues which have health implications as well, but now it's just completely transformed.

"We run [the heat pump] for half an hour and the bedroom has warmed up. We would turn it off and what a lovely morning it is when it's 17 or 18 degrees.

"It's a huge difference in terms of comfort and in terms of health too."

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How this Leeds couple electrified their entire house to reach net zero carbon

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Ewan Jones and his wife Isabelle began their journey to net zero in 2015, installing a heat pump, solar panels and insulating each room to help them create and maintain energy without burning a single fossil fuel. This transformation has seen Ewan and Isabelle witness remarkable results, with the couple now generating more electricity than they could use in a year.

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Directed by Oscar®-winning documentary filmmaker Louie Psihoyos and executive produced by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan, Lewis Hamilton, Novak Djokovic, and Chris Paul, The Game Changers tells the story of James Wilks - elite Special Forces trainer and The Ultimate Fighter winner - as he travels the world on a quest to uncover the optimal diet for human performance.

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Price of offshore wind falls to cheapest ever level in the UK

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We've all seen the headlines about the huge environmental problems caused by single-use plastics. Big brands, supermarkets and the government have the power to make the big changes that are needed. But we can be powerful too. So read on for simple tips and affordable swaps to reduce your plastic footprint.

Of course, using less plastic is easier for some people than others. For some disabled people, for example, single-use plastic is essential to their health or quality of life. Plastic products should still be available for those who need them. But many of us could easily reduce the amount of plastic we use. Here's our nine top tips:

1. Carry a reusable bottle

In the UK we use over 35 million plastic bottles every day! Carrying a reusable bottle is a great way to cut your plastic use and save money too! There's even an app that tells you where you can refill your bottle for free!

2. Say no to plastic straws

Plastic straws are bad news for our oceans. Next time you order a drink, think about whether you need a straw - and if you don't, just say no! You can also ask your local pub to stop adding straws to drinks as standard.

3. Take a reusable coffee cup

2.5 billion coffee cups are thrown away every year in the UK - and less than 1 in 400 are recycled. Carry a reusable cup with you - some cafes even offer a small discount if you use your own cup (and if they don't ask them why not!)

4. Avoid excessive food packaging

Whether it's making different choices in the supermarket or choosing a different place to shop, we can all try and cut down the plastic we buy. And as an added bonus, loose fruit and veg is often cheaper than pre-packaged alternatives!

5. Use refill stations for detergents

There are some products where it's difficult to avoid a plastic container (for example washing up liquid or laundry liquid) - the good news is that there are an increasing amount of places where you can refill your old bottles. Find your nearest refill station here.

6. Say no to disposable plastic cutlery

We've all been there - caught out in a cafe or at a train station when we've bought a salad or a yogurt but the only cutlery on offer is plastic! Whilst it's hard to plan for every opportunity, consider carrying a spoon or fork (or spork!) in your bag or keeping cutlery in your desk at work.

7. Get your milk delivered

Although the early morning sound of a milk float is not as common as it used to be, there are still lots of places in the UK where you can get milk delivered in glass bottles - which are then collected and reused. You can find your nearest milkround here.

8. Avoid microbeads

The good news is that the UK government have announced a ban on microbeads! However until the ban comes into force in 2018, there will still be products on the shelves, so keep checking those labels before you buy and avoid products containing polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and nylon.

9. Carry a shopping bag

Since the plastic bag charge was introduced in England, there's been a massive 85% drop in their use. Many of us are used to carrying an extra bag with us - if you still find it hard to remember, try a foldaway one that you can carry in your normal day bag.

Making just a few small changes can have a big impact on the amount of plastic we use on a day-to-day basis.

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Plastic. It's everywhere. It has only really existed for the last 60-70 years, but in that time plastic has transformed everything from packaging to product design and retailing.

One of the advantages of plastic is that it is designed to last, but this same blessing is a curse as nearly all the plastic ever created still exists in some form today.

Australia produces almost 3 million tonnes of plastic per annum, of which less than 12% is recycled. Alarmingly, up to 130,000 tonnes of that plastic will wind up in the ocean as plastic pollution each year. Considering each person produces (or uses) roughly 130 kg of plastic, it means that about 30 kg of each person's waste could end up in the ocean.

Not only could it end up in the ocean, but it can take hundreds of years to break down - if at all.

Plastic bag - 20 years

Plastic bags pose one of the greatest impacts to ocean wildlife. Even though they only make up a small percentage of our litter, they can break up into smaller and smaller pieces - having devastating impacts on our wildlife.

Takeaway coffee cups - 30 years

Did you know that if we lined up all the takeaway coffee cups used each year in Australia they would stretch around the world... twice! That's a lot of coffee cups. Unfortunately, many of these cups are not recyclable due to the plastic membrane that lines them, and can take up to 30 years to degrade.

Plastic straws - 200 years

Plastic straws can take up to 200 years to decompose. Choose a paper straw or ditch them altogether and try the age-old sipping technique.

6 pack plastic rings - 400 years

When these plastic rings end up in the ocean, they can be devastating to our marine wildlife who get entangled.

Plastic bottles - 450 years

The energy required to produce and transport plastic water bottles could fuel an estimated 1.5 million cars for a year, yet approximately 75% of water bottles are not recycled - they end up in landfills, litter roadsides, and pollute waterways and oceans.

Plastic cups - 450 years

The chemical bonds of plastic cups make them durable, but also resistant to breaking down. Overtime, these cups release toxic chemicals into the environment and are more likely to be ingested by vulnerable marine wildlife.

Disposable diapers - 500 years

Disposable diapers need to be exposed to oxygen and sunlight in order to decompose, and they don't decompose well in landfill. Once in landfill, they can contaminate groundwater, posing serious threats to the environment. Opt for reusable cloth diapers or eco-friendly alternatives.

Coffee pods - 500 years

The plastic in coffee pods takes more than 500 years to break down, releasing harmful amounts of methane gas as it does so. Steer clear of pod coffee machines. Or use recycled pods.

Plastic toothbrush - 500 years

3.5 billion toothbrushes are sold worldwide each year. Most get lost in the recycling process and end up in landfill or make their way into rivers and oceans. These toothbrushes are made from polypropylene plastic and nylon and can take up to 500 years or more to decompose.

The good news is that we can fight back against plastic pollution. Every little action we take to reduce our consumption of plastic is a big step in protecting the future of our planet and our precious wildlife.

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Your Guide to Eco-Friendly Living

Regardless of whether you've decided to go green to help the environment, to save money, or just see how easy it is, every step you take towards eco-friendly living is one that helps the world.

If you're just starting out and want some sustainable living ideas then here are a couple to get you started:

Step 2: Invest in eco-friendly technology

Want to go further than simply turning it off? Make sure that the tech you have got is as energy-efficient as possible. This way, you're using much less energy for the time that the product is on, saving money, and reducing your energy output.

Step 3: Switch to renewables

Changing your energy supplier to one that's 100% renewable is a great eco-friendly tip for any home. Anyone can do it, switching is simple and hassle-free plus all the electricity you use when on a 100% renewable tariff is effectively zero carbon!

Step 6: Compost

If you have let your food go that little bit too far past its 'best by' then you need to be sure to compost it rather than putting it in the bin. Not only will this help create a natural fertiliser and keep your garden green, it'll also reduce the amount of waste going to landfill - and as it won't break down anaerobically, there will not be a build-up of methane gas.

Step 7: Recycle everything

Chances are that if you're thinking about taking on a more eco-friendly lifestyle then you'll already be recycling. But could you improve your recycling-ability (now a word)? You can recycle almost everything, from batteries to paper to cars. Before you throw it away, take a minute to find out if you could recycle it instead.

Step 8: Try to cut out plastic

Plastic seems to have found its way into every single aspect of our lives. However, giving it up isn't as difficult as you might think - bring a canvas bag with you when you go shopping, buy your fruit and veg loose and stop buying bottled water.

Step 10: Insulate your home

Homes that aren't well insulated are much harder to keep warm when it's cold, and cool when the weather is hot. Insulating your home is one of the best eco-friendly tips for your home that we can offer you.

Step 11: Have your food shop delivered

Home delivery is like the public transport of groceries. Instead of having 20 odd cars make their way to the supermarket - one van drives around delivering to everyone in the area. Additionally, it means you're less likely to impulse buy which can help to reduce any waste food.

Step 12: Fix it, don't throw it

Repairing or fixing something is more environmentally friendly than simply throwing things away, although the latter may seem easier and cheaper sometimes. The internet gives you access to the tools and information you need to fix practically anything, and if you still can't fix it then why not try and turn it into something else?

Step 14: Don't drive

If you can make the journey by foot, bike or public transport, then do it. Driving, unless you're in an electric vehicle, isn't very eco-friendly and can really add to your carbon footprint. When you do have to drive, make sure that you get the most out of your vehicle by keeping the speed down, ensuring tyres are properly inflated and that the engine is running smoothly.

Step 15: Use your microwave

Honestly, you'd be surprised by how much more energy efficient microwaves are compared to conventional ovens. While you're already surprised, you may as well continue to be shocked with some of the awesome things you can cook in a microwave (hint: it's not just ready meals).

Step 16: Buy local

From clothes to food, the closer to home these products are made and bought, the less carbon is created with their transportation. Not only that, but you'll be supporting the local economy which means that in time you'll likely have even more local items to choose from.

Step 18: Grow your own

Growing your own veg isn't just a good way to save money, it's also a great way to cut down your carbon footprint and be eco-friendly. Don't have any outside space? Windowsill boxes are a great way to brighten up your view, filter the air coming into your home and offer plenty of space for herbs and small vegetable patches.

Step 19: Plant some trees

Ecological sustainability is very important when it comes to eco-friendly living. Without a stable ecosystem, things start to fall apart. Making sure that we're planting more native trees to replace those that have been felled to make room for developments is something that more people and businesses need to do to protect the environment and improve air quality.

Step 20: Choose your personal care wisely

When it comes to personal hygiene there are several things you need to be careful to avoid for a truly eco-friendly lifestyle. The most damaging of these is microbeads, which are small bits of solid plastic which aren't biodegradable and make their way into watercourses and ultimately end up damaging the environment by entering the food chain. Make sure that your body wash, toothpaste, face scrub and other products do not contain these beads. In addition to this, avoiding chemicals and opting for natural cleaning products - like those sold by Lush is the best way to keep yourself and the environment clean.

Want more tips and guides on living an eco-friendly life? Why not check out some of the work that our partners, Friends of the Earth and Soil Association do and don't forget to sign up to our 100% renewable electricity and carbon neutral Green Gas.

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David Attenborough was one of the people who made an impact on us. Watching his documentaries over the last few years has made us reduce how much meat we eat, how much plastic we use, and ignited our passion for setting up an earth-friendly company. What's your favourite Attenborough documentary??? 

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David Attenborough was one of the people who made an impact on us. Watching his documentaries over the last few years has made us reduce how much meat we eat, how much plastic we use, and ignited our passion for setting up an earth-friendly company. What's your favourite Attenborough documentary??? 

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Adored Earth- Who Are We? We are a new eco-centric brand that truly cares about our planet’s future.With a passion for nature and the outdoors, we set out with the goal of helping to preserve the beauty of our planet, for ourselves and for future generations. Having witnessed first-hand the effects of global warming and plastic pollution, we felt a sense of responsibility and had to act. As a business and as individuals, we try to do our bit. You can find us regularly picking up litter in the local area, planting wildflowers or attending beach and countryside clean-ups. When we shop, we are forever mindful of our consumption and the impact that everyday goods can have on the environment. 

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Adored Earth- Who Are We? We are a new eco-centric brand that truly cares about our planet’s future.With a passion for nature and the outdoors, we set out with the goal of helping to preserve the beauty of our planet, for ourselves and for future generations. Having witnessed first-hand the effects of global warming and plastic pollution, we felt a sense of responsibility and had to act. As a business and as individuals, we try to do our bit. You can find us regularly picking up litter in the local area, planting wildflowers or attending beach and countryside clean-ups. When we shop, we are forever mindful of our consumption and the impact that everyday goods can have on the environment. 