This month we have featured lots of great Green Tips on our Advent Calendar. It has been a pleasure sharing all of the good things that you can do to benefit the environment with you. For those that may have missed some of our Advent Calendar windows, here are all of them:
- Share Green Tips
- Grow Your Own
- Buy Second Hand
- Use Less Water
- Repurpose Unused Items
- Save Our Trees
- Upcycle Old Pallets *
- Make Leaf Mould
- Clear A Footpath
- Share Excess Food
- Make Green Cleaners
- Craft Christmas Cards
- Save Your Energy
- Fix Faulty Things
- Shop Local
- Plant A Tree
- Swap Don’t Shop
- Stop Using Plastic
- Ferment and Preserve
- Ditch Your Car
- Pick Up Litter **
- Get Renewable Energy
- Meat Free Monday
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
* For window 7 – Upcycle Old Pallets, we hosted a workshop as part of Wellingborough Community Action Partnership’s Sustainability Courses, that upcycled pallets into Christmas Trees, here is a video of the event (warning – includes crafty people!)
** For window 21 – Pick Up Litter, we featured lots of our Two Hour Tidy Ups and the many litter picking heroes from Wellingborough Eco Group and Wellie Wombles that have filled over 11,000 bags of litter over the past five years!
We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to our Advent Calendar and to thank you for reading the posts. It is wonderful to be able to share so many Green Tips with everyone; we hope that you have enjoyed the posts and found them useful. Maybe some of the Green Tips will inspire you to try new ways of becoming more eco-friendly? Have a very Merry Christmas and a great green New Year!