http://ethicstrading.blogsome.com The Ethics Trading Blog - Tips on living more naturally. Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:11:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Ethics Trading blog can now be found here: http://ethicstrading.com/blog/ where it is a fully integrated part of the revamped Ethics Trading website. We’ve changed website hosts and can now boast Carbon neutral hosting thanks to Eco Web Hosting.  So you might want to update your bookmarks, RSS doodads etc. ... http://ethicstrading.blogsome.com/2008/06/06/weve-moved/ Sometimes accidents happen and the results can affect many people. Sometimes the universe gives us an extra day off…. From IHelm, our web hosts.  This evening at 4:55 in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room   Thankfully, ... http://ethicstrading.blogsome.com/2008/06/01/down-time/ Guest article by Suzan St Maur. Not only do weddings represent substantial expenditure (the average spend in the UK is around £19,000) but also they can involve huge amounts of waste that can have a crippling, rippling effect across the environment and into far-flung communities which are anything but “fair-trade.” ... http://ethicstrading.blogsome.com/2008/05/26/12-top-tips-for-a-great-green-wedding/ Yes, in green. Or rather in a greener way. How to get Married in Green by Suzan St Maur landed through the letterbox about a week ago, just begging to be passed around some friends, drooled over and then reviewed. As the whole "green" ... http://ethicstrading.blogsome.com/2008/05/23/getting-married-in-green/ How to Grow a Soap nut Tree First find some seeds. I often find them in my deliveries of soap nuts but I try to take them out so my customers are only paying for the weight of shells. The seeds contain no saponin and are therefore not what my ... http://ethicstrading.blogsome.com/2008/05/20/soap-nuts-seeds-love-the-cold/ Following on from Linda’s tips there are Ethics Trading’s best seller, the Soap Nut. Essentially you can do ALL your cleaning using soap nuts. Yes, ALL.  It’s perfectly possible to clean your home, your laundry, car, curtains, children, floors, windows, patio, garden furniture, well everything really. If it gets cleaned ... http://ethicstrading.blogsome.com/2008/05/11/green-cleaning-soap-nuts/   Having written a number of articles about the benefit to both the environment and ourselves in buying organic cotton. I feel that some of the benefits are negated if for the remainder of the garments life it is washed in detergents and chemicals which may be almost as damaging. So ... http://ethicstrading.blogsome.com/2008/05/08/green-cleaning/ The sun is shining and warm and we’re just waiting for it to dry the grass a bit more so I can go and mow it. The soap nut solution does seem to be keeping the seedlings safe from slug, snail and greenfly attacks.  So we’ll be sowing more seeds ... http://ethicstrading.blogsome.com/2008/05/05/bank-holiday-sunshine/ Soap nut juice kills slugs! It does, it’s true. We’re discovering more and more uses for soap nuts and the liquid all the time. How does it work? The detergent properties in the soap nut solution interfere with the slug’s slime and kill the slug as ... http://ethicstrading.blogsome.com/2008/04/30/slug-deterrent/ The slugs are eating my plants. This happens every year and I refuse to use pellets. I could get copper tape but it’s expensive. I could go out with a bucket of salt water and collect them every evening but it’s very time intensive and I have other things ... http://ethicstrading.blogsome.com/2008/04/22/slugs-and-soapnuts-experiment/