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Making your life greener - one bite at a time.

Everyone could play a part in protecting and restoring our environment - and today is a good time to start. You can help the environment in your daily life at home, the office, shopping or in the garden.

You can make a difference! The first step along the green path is often the hardest to take. Ecobites will give you the information and inspiration you need to set you on your way.

The transformation starts with yourself, pamper with homemade, chemical-free beauty. Then move on to the total home environment and discover green cleaning techniques, water and energy-saving strategies and gentle ways to care for your possessions at home and work. Finally, venture outside into the organic garden and create a safe, green, bountiful oasis. Live green, and live well.

Work is where the 'green' heart is. Leave a small carbon footprint with 10 easy tips on how to green your office. From paper to coffee, one cup at a time, be it - organic, fair trade, bird friendly, solar roasted brew with hormone-free milk and sweetened with organic sugar or organic alternative. Read on for ideas on how to implement more environmental measures in and around the workplace.

Office workers are calling for their companies to do more for the environment, with only 17 per cent of those polled in a survey believing that their organisation is doing enough from an environmental point of view.

Generations have passed, and a romantic young girl's work ends up in a modern household where the art of stiff-starching has been forgotten.

A limp table centre soon creases, its beauty becomes veiled, and lovely old embroided linen can end up being tossed into a bag destined for a local fair or thrift shop or perhaps even the town rubbish dump (yikes!).

Somewhere along the way, with a bit of luck, that sad old rag will be recognised for what it is. Rescued, laundered, stiffly starched and ironed back to their former beauty.

Lovingly handcrafted old linen pieces can once more grace a table or sideboard of their own era, which now have become antiques and collectable relics of our historic past.

Going green with your footwear makes sense!  Making "green" choices can have far-reaching benefits. Reusing and recycling footwear saves energy in manufacture and also in landfill. It can also save you money. However, re-using shoes is not for everyone, so ecobites have compiled a list of ethical and green footwear retailers.

TEN TOP SHOE TIPS

1. Shoes will last longer if given a day's rest after wearing to allow moisture to evaporate, so have at least two pairs for each season.