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I have been dreading watching this programme.  I like many have been aware of threats to our planet through global warming for some years now and few can be unaware of the information being circulated by environmental organisations and action groups, or remain ignorant to the outstanding and global action that the public are now taking to bring our governments to task over climate change.  However I feared that despite my awareness, this programme might make it clear that things are far worse than I thought, and sadly it has.... We are all going to have to deal with our own fears over this issue in our own ways, this post is not about my concerns, it is about my resultant actions. As it says in my blog header, and to this I hold... There are many things in this world that we have influence over for the betterment of us all. I believe that if you identify a problem that you cannot live with you have to try and bring about change for the better. I know that...

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...

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...

The 15th October 2009 is Blog Action Day , powered by Change.org. In their words: ‘Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world's bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. One day. One issue. Thousands of voices.’ I have taken part in Blog Action Day for a couple of years now along with my Sister and Mum and it really is an amazing event. This year’s topic is climate change. I have begun to notice over the past few years while attending seminars and courses that we can be very good at getting together, uniting to a cause and planning action however a period of time elapses, nothing happens and then before you know it we are all sitting there again discussing the same issues and noticing that we didn’t actually take any action . This day to me is a day of communicating the wish for chang...