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  • Let’s hear it for linen

    Let’s hear it for linen

    Linen's twice the life of cotton, doesn’t shrink, is easy to cultivate, holds dyes well, and is resistant to moths and beetles. And it looks great!

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  • Jemima

    Expect the unexpected

    More new from the Beira region of Portugal … Jemima blogs about the “good life” … and admits that self-sufficiency is not as easy as you might have thought. Living...

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    Jemima

    Jemima chose to leave her city life in Bristol, UK, to live sustainably, off-grid in the foothills of the Estrela Mountains of central Portugal. It has been a steep learning...

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    Emily’s Top 10 for reducing packaging

    Reduce: Take a hessian bag shopping and fill with loose vegetables and fruit. Reuse: Reuse any plastic packaging your fruit and veg comes in. Recycle: At the supermarket, look for...

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    Time to pack in the packaging

    By Emily Keal Supermarkets worldwide are guilty of using excessive packaging, especially plastic. This consumes huge amounts of energy and natural resources – around 8 per cent of the world’s...

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    The universal phone charger

    By Lea Keiper, Tunza magazine intern, May 2011 We at Tunza were quite angry about the fact that there was nothing like a universal charger for mobile phones, leaving us...

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  • Runners

    WED in Bangalore

    BYEE Meghna Das blogs from her hometown of Bangalore on the excitement of World Environment Day 2011 Usually a restful city, Bangalore was up and bustling at 6 am on...

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    Ximena Prugue’s blog

    ‎Budding engineer Ximena Prugue’s winning entry in UNEP’s World Environment Day 2010 blogging competition. Growing up, my older brother and I were obsessed with Bill Nye the Science Guy show....

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