Create an environmentally friendly shopping policy

Written by Kerry-Ann Cox


These days, buying green products does not mean sacrificing your quality of life or needing to become a hippy. There are many high quality environmental products which are better forrepparttar environment and your health.

Today, you have far more options when it comes to purchasing products that do not harmrepparttar 110113 environment. Products that were once only found inrepparttar 110114 health food shop are now showing up onrepparttar 110115 supermarket shelves. However, withrepparttar 110116 more companies jumping onrepparttar 110117 environmental bandwagon it is becoming more difficult to determine what really is environmentally friendly and what is not. This article is a staring point for you to put together a shopping policy that works for you, your family, your budget andrepparttar 110118 environment.

To have a totally environmentally friendly purchasing policy you need to look atrepparttar 110119 cradle to grave analysis of every product. This means looking at: -where it comes from, -what sort of pollution occurred inrepparttar 110120 production -any possible toxic by-products produced -derivation from non-renewable resources -energy needed to transport it to your home -was it produced locally orrepparttar 110121 other side world -what happens when you have no more use for it -the potential for it be reused, or recycled -the problems its eventual disposal will create

This is a huge task and not one that can be easily undertaken byrepparttar 110122 individual. But make some noise, put some pressure on your local political representative and let them know that you want a new way. Let them know that you want to knowrepparttar 110123 direct and indirect consequences ofrepparttar 110124 products you purchase.

Every time you make a purchase consider what you are buying andrepparttar 110125 message that it is sending torepparttar 110126 producers. Buy products that are good for you andrepparttar 110127 environment. Develop a purchasing policy that makes waste minimization a priority.

Before buying anything consider -Isrepparttar 110128 product can be made from recycled materials? -Can it be reused or recycled after initial use? -Do you really need to buy it at all? -Could you reuse something else? -Could you findrepparttar 110129 product second hand? -Isrepparttar 110130 product from a relatively natural source or has it been chemically manufactured with possible toxic by-products? -What sort of processing was involved in its production?

England Expects Every Man Will Do His Duty

Written by Malcolm James Pugh


england expects

Many newspapers accurately pinpointrepparttar powerful public mood on immigration and asylum, yet all are seemingly puzzled as to why New Labour seem hell bent on allowing so many in with so few checks in place, if any at all.

It seems palpably clear to me that this is simply so they will all VOTE New Labour, andrepparttar 110112 Superstate will come further into being onrepparttar 110113 back of it, as no one will ever be able again inrepparttar 110114 future to vote it out, if indeed voting is to be allowed inrepparttar 110115 future envisaged by our supremos.

Several years, and many eons ago, New Labour flourished in a political  vacuum. We were all tired of politics, sleaze, stagnation and a somewhat one horse race. However,repparttar 110116 British like an underdog.

Lo, step forward New Labour, a new star inrepparttar 110117 firmament, who tried to make it seem being funded byrepparttar 110118 Unions is not actually a problem to governingrepparttar 110119 country, a bit like being free to do your own thing when it is your parents who are footingrepparttar 110120 bill.

The current rise in militancy and ever more incessant strikes would seem to bear this out, and what use pouring billions into national institutions if you cannot curb wage demands to reasonable levels, without fear of losing crucial funding.

Despite feverish attempts to refund via other means inrepparttar 110121 early days,repparttar 110122 bulk of New Labour monetary backing is still hugely Union based, even though its party membership is savagely dwindling. The days of Labour representingrepparttar 110123 working man are now lost inrepparttar 110124 mists of time, they essentially represent themselves now.

To get elected atrepparttar 110125 outset, every tiniest minority group imaginable was courted and mobilised to vote, and are still being paid their thirty pieces of silver in favourable legislation for quirky groups now.

And so a dream was unfolded byrepparttar 110126 dream weaver, and we wanted to believe in a new way. Unfortunately this was based on huge government and public borrowing and massive taxation, and is now beginning to unravel before our eyes. We see it but we do not see it, as we know what is coming but pretend it is not there. It is too awful to contemplate for now.

This is where we are now, except some sly and underhanded changes were going on behindrepparttar 110127 great illusionists panoply of tricks and grins onrepparttar 110128 surface. Gloss up front slime beneath.

Imaginerepparttar 110129 Last Night ofrepparttar 110130 Proms, a quintessentially British occasion. It is synonymous withrepparttar 110131 Royal Albert Hall.

Imagine then it being moved to Earls Court, asrepparttar 110132 structure is deemed unsafe. Then leaflets are handed out at every entrance purveying alternative contemporary entertainment elsewhererepparttar 110133 self same evening, and finally when insiderepparttar 110134 conductor changesrepparttar 110135 score to something less fervent and Nationalistic, and bansrepparttar 110136 waving ofrepparttar 110137 Union Jack duringrepparttar 110138 performance.

Unimaginable.

This may seem fictional, however what is happening here is not.

Forrepparttar 110139 Royal Albert Hall read Britain, for structural failure readrepparttar 110140 erosion of centuries of foundations of constitutional tradition and Judicial and political checks, balances and counterbalances, to say nothing about our own Monarchy. Chipping away, brick by brick, stone by stone, pebble by pebble, drip on drip downrepparttar 110141 drain to decay and oblivion.

For leaflets purveying alternative entertainment, read subversion ofrepparttar 110142 teaching ofrepparttar 110143 history of this realm in schools, and attempts to coercerepparttar 110144 independant nature ofrepparttar 110145 BBC.

Tinkering withrepparttar 110146 teaching of History and trying to traduce repparttar 110147 media and foremostlyrepparttar 110148 hitherto bastion of BBC independence should ring some alarm bells.

What do they have to do before we see it all as it is, BURN ALL THE BOOKS.

Then we normally have an orchestra and a Great Conductor, one leading, andrepparttar 110149 other interpreting and singingrepparttar 110150 same tune torepparttar 110151 Nation except now there is only a conductor, who plays without orchestra directly torepparttar 110152 media and ignoresrepparttar 110153 assembled audience, who are summarily deniedrepparttar 110154 waving ofrepparttar 110155 Union Jack or any  semblance of National pride throughout his virtuoso performance.

We are well on our way to a Superstate, and abjugating our rights and heritage to Brussels, viarepparttar 110156 constant dilution ofrepparttar 110157 lifeblood ofrepparttar 110158 Monarchy,repparttar 110159 House of Lords,repparttar 110160 Judiciary,repparttar 110161 Lord Chancellor, and our very constitution inrepparttar 110162 name of anachronistic edifices not suited nor in tune to modern government.

It has suited well enough for nigh on 1000 years, and next time He saysrepparttar 110163 EU is merely a cleaning up exercise, remember how He is trying to clean uprepparttar 110164 600 year old post of Lord Chancellor without consultation or consideration or referendum, just tossing centuries of history aside without a mandate.

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