The Eco Bloke

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OxonCarts delivering a bride the green way!

You are getting married, but you want your big day to be special for the environment as well as for you and your partner.

Here are two suggestions that I have to make your special day just that little bit more special.

• Hire a rickshaw to take you from your home to the church or registry office. This is a fun way of getting to your venue with the least impact on the environment.

You have heard of Solar Power, Wind Power and Wave Power, but with England in the middle of one of the coldest winters ever recorded, could we make use of Snow Power?

A small town in Japan is doing just that and not just in the winter…

Check out this CNN report.

Could you make a Snow Powered Fridge to use for the next few weeks so that your regular fridge can be switched off? Just image the energy saving you would make while making use of all that free energy. Now thats low-carbon living…

A Green Christmas is a fun Christmas!

Please post all your ‘Green’ Christmas and Boxing Day tips and suggestions below.

Let’s see how many tips we can get before Christmas Day tomorrow to help all readers have a very happy and environmentally friendly festive period.

Maybe you could help Eco Bloke to have the biggest and best list on the net!

OK, now over to you! Post your tips below.

Time to go nuts for soap nuts

Do you really know what’s in your washing powder and the effect that it has on the environment when you’re done with it?

Many people don’t.

But to save yourself from worrying about it, why not GO NUTS!

SOAP NUTS that is!

I was first introduced to soap nuts when watching the BBC program – ‘It’s not easy being green’ last year.

Soap nuts are friendly to the environment as they are both natural and organic. They come from an entirely renewable source and are grown naturally in India and Nepal.

Rambling on...

Welcome to my first blog post as the Eco Bloke at EcoBloke.co.uk.

My aim was to set up this ‘plain speaking’ blog to help people just like me get the best out of living the eco-life.

I haven’t really got a plan of the direction of what I am trying to achieve here yet, but I guess you can expect loads of informational blog posts based on tips for green living, products and books that can help you along the way in your low-carbon living and loads of news from around our beautiful planet.