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Les Cygnes - Living working Gites in France: The Cost of Celebrity!!!
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Les Cygnes - Living working Gites in France. Comments from our carbon neutral gites in Poitou-Charentes, France. Tuesday, August 4, 2009. The Cost of Celebrity! Scooting around the internet recently I've noticed a spate of green celebrities showing us and telling us how we should live our lives and quiet frankly they have no idea how the real world lives and it always amazes me the level of hypocrisy they exhibit. Veg shopping will never be the same again. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The homes ar...
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Les Cygnes - Living working Gites in France: June 2009
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Les Cygnes - Living working Gites in France. Comments from our carbon neutral gites in Poitou-Charentes, France. Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Heating a old stone house. After years of investment in our business it’s beginning to pay off and we are now in a position to renovate our house. Apart from the new kitchen, bathroom, flooring, insulation and paintwork the time has come to look at making the house as warm as possible during Winter. So what to do? Here is what I found:. All of these system cost less to ...
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Les Cygnes - Living working Gites in France: May 2009
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Les Cygnes - Living working Gites in France. Comments from our carbon neutral gites in Poitou-Charentes, France. Saturday, May 30, 2009. A monthly look at the challenges and occasional frustrations involved in living a green life. When did we stop being green? It suggests we weren’t ever ‘green’ in the past. Yet I can’t remember my parents and grand parents being wasteful. Not convinced? Let’s have a look back…. 8226; Terry cloth nappies, what I was always wrapped in – now green. 8226; Collecting rainwat...
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Les Cygnes - Living working Gites in France: The Near Future
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Les Cygnes - Living working Gites in France. Comments from our carbon neutral gites in Poitou-Charentes, France. Thursday, March 11, 2010. Since this is the beginning of a new decade, and a decade which I think will set the basis for the near future (for either good or bad), I thought it might be interesting to see what the energy footprint of the communities of the near future will look like. In coastal areas we will see the the building of wave powered generators to supplement electrical generators....
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Les Cygnes - Living working Gites in France: March 2010
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Les Cygnes - Living working Gites in France. Comments from our carbon neutral gites in Poitou-Charentes, France. Thursday, March 11, 2010. Since this is the beginning of a new decade, and a decade which I think will set the basis for the near future (for either good or bad), I thought it might be interesting to see what the energy footprint of the communities of the near future will look like. In coastal areas we will see the the building of wave powered generators to supplement electrical generators....
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Les Cygnes - Living working Gites in France: A greener Christmas
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Les Cygnes - Living working Gites in France. Comments from our carbon neutral gites in Poitou-Charentes, France. Wednesday, December 2, 2009. Christmas is the time of year when most peoples thoughts turn to family and friends, buying your loved ones presents to show your feelings for them, providing the most lavish meals you can provide and for many travelling long distances to visit friends and relatives. Make something to take when visiting friends and rellies? I never had a new bike as a kid! Avoid pr...
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Les Cygnes - Living working Gites in France: Hot air
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Les Cygnes - Living working Gites in France. Comments from our carbon neutral gites in Poitou-Charentes, France. Monday, February 1, 2010. So what did we get in the end? By the start of this month all countries were supposed to have spelt out how this was to be attained by curbing carbon emissions. But the deal doesn’t impose any penalties on those that fail to reach their targets. So in answer to the question…what did we get? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Hi I'm Graeme and with my wife Graz own ou...
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Les Cygnes - Living working Gites in France: November 2009
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Les Cygnes - Living working Gites in France. Comments from our carbon neutral gites in Poitou-Charentes, France. Sunday, November 1, 2009. A Snippet of Population Information. There is a promo on BBC TV at the moment that has Sir David Attenborough saying that in the 50 years that he has been reporting on the natural world the human population has increased threefold. Now I turned 50 in September and it horrified me, I am part of the increase – I blame my parents. The estimated world population as of.