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I have recently purchased The Compassionate Shopping Guide and posted my progress so far on my main blog, In The Pink . I have however decided that recording my progress with changing products and suppliers may be better off posted here. Here are the posts I have written so far: The Compassionate Shopping Guide Over the past few years I have been trying to buy personal care and house hold cleaning products that are environmentally friendly and are not tested on animals. I use Ecover household products and have, for the most, purchased personal products from The Body Shop. Even Mr Dancin has been a willing convert to The Body Shop. However he returned from town last week saying that he had seen a notice on a stall calling for a boycott of The Body Shop. He was a little reluctant to tell me as The Body Shop is my favourite shop and I love going there to treat myself. Anyway I looked it up online. The Body Shop was sold to L'Oreal in 2006 and at the time I checked with The Bo...

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Well Blog Action Day  is almost here again and this years topic is Water. I am starting to research my post and have chosen my particular topic which is going to be the oceans. The Blog Action Day website has lots or interesting information including suggestions for posts , banners to put on your blog, a registration page so that you can register your blog for participation, information on fund-raising , and a petition which indicates your support of the UN's efforts to improve water and sanitation for billions of people around the world. You can also sign the petition by clicking on the banner at the top left of my blog and it only takes a few seconds to complete. I usually post the Blog Action Day You Tube clip to help promote the day here but frankly this years clip has some annoying music as an accompaniment (sorry guys but it really does) and so instead I thought I would post this, a splendid song written and performed by the folk musician Benji Kirkpatrick. The ...

Check out the update on Kamrita the Sumatran Tiger HERE .

Further to my last post which revealed the possibility that mobile phones may be contributing to the decline of Bees in recent years I have been thinking about all of our modern day gadgets and whether I would be willing to give them up. Mobile phones for example have been around for what is still a relatively short period of time. I am 38 years old and can easily remember a time in my personal and working life where mobile phones were not common place, and barely in existence. Today mobile phones are a huge part of our lives and valuable to us for a multitude of reasons. Children have them to keep in touch with friends and even as a safety aspect. This can be for parents who want to know where their children are, therefore able to contact them at any time, so long as they answer the phone! It can also provide them with a method of emergency communication if needed. Similarly many adults have them solely for emergency use to provide that instant method of communication with t...

I came across this article on the Daily Telegraph website and thought it was worth spreading around. Do we really have a full grasp of how our life style affects our environment? And given the immense and rapid technological advances that are being made can we afford to ignore these possibilities? The growing use of mobile telephones is behind the disappearance of honey bees and the collapse of their hives, scientists have claimed. Dean Nelson in New Delhi Published: 8:00AM BST 29 May 2010 Britain has seen a 15 per cent decline in its bee population in the last two years. Their disappearance has caused alarm throughout Europe and North America where campaigners have blamed agricultural pesticides, climate change and the advent of genetically modified crops for what is now known as 'colony collapse disorder.' Britain has seen a 15 per cent decline in its bee population in the last two years and shrinking numbers has led to a rise in thefts of hives. Now researchers from Chandig...

I created this video to highlight the plight of the wild Tiger. 12 years ago Nick Harper released this song, one of the lyrics being 'There's Only 5,000 Tigers Left', today it is estimated there are as few as 3,200 in the wild. Here are some facts as provided by the WWF , an organisation fighting to protect animals in danger worldwide such as the Tiger. There are six living sub-species of tiger; the Amur (Siberian), Bengal (Indian), Indo-Chinese, Malayan, Sumatran and South China.Three other sub-species, the Bali, Caspian and Javan, are now extinct. Location:From India to south-eastern China and from the Russian Far East to Sumatra, Indonesia Habitat:Wide ranging - from evergreen and monsoon forests, to mixed coniferous-deciduous woodlands, and mangrove swamps Wild population:As few as 3,200 The threats to tigers: Poaching for skins and body parts used in traditional Asian medicines Habitat loss due to farming, forest clearance for the timber trade and human development De...