Friends and acquaintances:

Those listed are due to their strong environmental aims

    Lammas Low Impact Living Eco Village: http://www.lammas.org.uk/
    Lammas eco village logo

    The Real Nappy Campaign: http://www.realnappies-wales.org.uk/
    Real cotton nappies



Friendly distractions, sprinkled lightly with environmental facts:


  • BAT = Best Available Technique/Technology. Also, Bats = Flying mammals in the order Chiroptera, that help keep down the biting insect population and are protected by law or shaped pieces of willow for defending stumps.
  • BATNEEC = Best Available Techniques/Technology Not Entailing Excessive Cost. Not to be confused with "Beatnik" = a media stereotype of a 1960's youth culture now thought to be extinct, the species was once discovered as a small community nestled in Newquay by Alan Whicker.
  • ‘Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.’ Albert von Szent-Györgyi
  • ‘Eighty percent of success is showing up.’ Woody Allen
  • EPR = Extended Producer Responsibility. Requiring firms which manufacture, import or sell products and packaging, to be financially or physically responsible for such products over the entire lifecycle of the product, including after its useful life.
  • FEAR = "Forget Everything And Run!" Some people have not fully read the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 with regard bulls! http://www.naturenet.net/row/bulls.html
  • GSOH = Good Sense Of Humour, usually found the hard way by environmental consultants out~standing in their field.
  • IPP = Integrated Product Policy, looking at the product from all the stages of its life from its creation to its demise.
  • IUCN = International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
  • NIMBY = “Not In My Back Yard!” Describes opposing proposals for a new development close to where you live.
  • NS BACS = Never Stand Behind A Cow Sneezing.
  • 'People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centred. Love them anyway.' Mother Teresa
  • Q: What did the fisherman say to the magician? A: 'Pick a cod, any cod.' http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/john-rutherford-britains-fishermen-are-the-heroes-of-the-recovery-of-cod-stocks-1734440.html
  • ‘Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.’ Albert Einstein
  • 'Stick-to-it-ive-ness = Unwavering pertinacity: perseverance.' Erin Brockovich Source: http://www.brockovich.com/work.htm
  • Trysordy = A not-for-profit Aladdin’s cave of creativity with clean, safe waste materials from industry and craft supplies, Johnstown, Carmarthen SA31 3QU http://www.trysordy.org.uk
  • ‘Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.’. Dr. Seuss, from The Lorax
  • YIMBY = “Yes In My Back Yard” General meaning: The support for affordable community housing. Let's expand that to: The support for affordable community housing for humanity AND ecology. Let's green the built environment.