Hi, welcome to Nigel’s Eco Store eco blog. Running Nigel’s Eco Store is an amazing opportunity to explore all things environmentally friendly. Find out more about our business, new products we come across, and the environmental issues I think about. I will be writing fairly regularly on all sorts of environmentally friendly (and other) topics. Please add a comment if you feel the urge - all feedback welcome!
At the end of last year, we asked you the public both to nominate and to vote on which on-line retailers, advocators, organisations, charities and social media really were committed to supporting the environment and which were just greenwashing… in the Green Web Awards, run in partnership by us and leading…
The odd thing is, even in our varied modern 21st century culture, Christmas is the single most important date in the year. No other day comes close. There are good reasons for that, only in all the madness,
A friend who lives in Wales is telling me about Freeganism, which involves salvaging discarded, unspoiled food from supermarket bins. It reminds me of the time I visited a different friend who used to live on a houseboat on the Thames. One of her neighbours, ‘Mad’ Pierre, who rumour had it…
Christmas is fast approaching and I am looking back at 2009, at whether I can be more planet friendly, reduce my carbon footprint and be more sustainable in my living. This year I’ve been pretty good: shopping locally, cutting back on things like meat, walking more, and switching off as much as possible at home and at work.
The odd holiday splurge is the one thing that leaves a nasty
We’ve just launched our second Green Web Awards, celebrating the best green websites, blogs and social media. This year, following some great feedback on this blog, we’ve made the awards a tad more democratic!