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Emissions from cremation are significant. Cremation, the rapid oxidation of a cadaver, returns nothing to the earth and just adds to atmospheric pollution. A green burial is one where people use a wicker or cardboard coffin; have a look at Ecoffins. They may have a tree planted on top. Natural burial sites are being established as nature reserves, copses and wildflower meadows; there is a local site near Lower Tysoe. One of the other relevant websites, Native Woodland offers to contact your local "wildlife/forest trust, country estates and your local authority to see whether we can jointly create such an amenity". Anybody got a field to spare?
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Junk mail often goes straight in the bin, hopefully the recycling bin. But you can opt not to receive it in the first place. The Mail Preference Service is entirely free. Just choose the mail you want, but there are some things to think about in doing so. Have a look at their website. |
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Providing telephone and broadband services, this Chipping Norton based company is owned by its customers, It has a written ethical policy and is committed to environmental best practice.
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Other helpful sites:Outdoor furniture from recycled plastic |
Other Oxfordshire County Waste Recycling Centres |
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In the words of Twit Conway alias the late great Peter Sellers (and presumably many before him): "So much to learn - so little time".
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Friends of the Earth - Banbury branch ClimateXChange is an Oxfordshire based project to help us all to get imaginative about climate change. Transition Towns is an umbrella organisation encouraging towns to prepare for life after oil; there's a movement in Oxford and a nucleus of one in North Oxfordshire. There other local initiatives. Take a butchers at Charlbury Waste Action Group Similarly Sustainable Blewbury Stop Climate Chaos is an organisation to mobilise UK public concern and to take political action to stop climate chaos. And of course you've heard of Greenpeace. |
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| Let Live a novel by broadcaster, journalist and cyclist John Madeley is published by Longstone Books ISBN:078-0-9568344-1-6; 240 pages, price £8.99. More details of the book | Let Live is “Entertaining, sharp, penetrating, an incisive account of the damage that climate change is doing to the poor. A searing indictment of the policies of Western country governments. Read it....and demand action” Caroline Lucas MP |
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An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. An Inconvenient Truth is available on DVD from Amazon among others. |
| Said to knock spots off An Inconvenient Truth, The Age of Stupid is not your average run-of-the-mill film. Starring Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devasted world of 2055, it looks back at “archive” footage from 2007 and asks: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance? One quote about it: "I hate this film. I felt as if I was watching all my own excuses for not doing anything about climate change being stripped away from me. And it's tender and funny and wise as well.Can I just pretend I never saw it?" |
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| The Ecologist The New Scientist UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report |
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