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News image Your favourite ethical snack?

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Paul Northup
Back in February, BBC News reported that Gordon Brown had reportedly weaning himself off his four-KitKats-a-day habit and was now eating nine bananas instead to get fit for the election. We know now that it was a switch that didn’t quite pay...

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News image What A Difference A Day Makes (Another Small Idea)

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Martin Wroe
If everyone in the UK gave up meat for one day a week, the reduction in greenhouse gases would be like taking 5million cars off the roads. How come we don’t hear this kind of green-sky thinking from the mainstream political parties. We could...

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News image If You Could Give Away Your Vote

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Martin Wroe
Supposing you could give away your vote. That your decision on where to mark your X was not about how much tax you want to pay. About who will create the best schools or protect the NHS. Not about the most trustworthy leader, how soon we pay down...

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News image A Generous Election: What's The Small Idea?

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Paul Northup
Generation or insulation? Time to get our houses in order. The government’s recently announced micro-generation scheme is great news. Isn’t it? If you install small-scale renewable energy generating capability into your house there will be a guaranteed...

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News image Messy Generosity

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Paul Northup
The first trip of the year back up to the allotment (I know, we’re slacking) brings the truth sharply back into focus: when it comes to living a Generous life with kids in tow, things get pretty late and pretty messy. Let me explain. It just so happens...

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News image Just Connect

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Peter Barrett
I was given a book for Christmas entitled The Wild Places by Robert MacFarlane. He tackles the question ‘Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain?’ by embarking on a series of beautifully described journeys, spending nights out on cliff...

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News image A matter of degrees

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Paul Northup
Like most boys of their age, our older two – at six and four – have a lurid love of a pseudo-scientific tale I tell them. It’s a tale that, in turn, some other adult told me as a child. About how a frog won’t jump out of a saucepan of water as it’s...

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