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’ll 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! 
The sun is shining. People are wearing shorts. People who haven’t cycled for months are out enthusiastically mowing down young children on Brighton promenade. So what am I doing stuck inside, shackled to my computer?
So now it’s not just biofuels that are in the news for creating problems; bioplastics are getting it in the neck for not being the quick fix they were touted to be. Well, as our younger readers might say, duh. This weekend’s papers carried stories about how “sustainable” plastics made for packaging out of maize, sugarcane and wheat were nowhere near as
I’ve just come back from an annual family gathering. My grandfather was one of five brothers, so there are a lot of relatives: fifty of us turn up at the local tennis club and there’s lots of energy in the room. Buffet style food, kids running round, faces new and old, and co-operative good will over clearing up. Lots of chit chat about
It’s turning out to be a busy week. If the global financial crisis isn’t enough, last night I went to a talk about climate change and peak oil at the local Transition Town meeting.
You know when you get something new, and you suddenly notice that they’re everywhere? A few days ago I went to the Natural Products Show at London’s Olympia on the hunt for new eco products. It was a successful trip and I found some great new things that’ll be appearing on the site any day now.
Strangely, the thing that struck me most at the show was the number of coffees…
I just came across this world map by Worldmapper on the new BBC Green website. The map looks pretty distorted, because each country has been resized to show the amount of greenhouse gas emissions it is responsible for…
Isn’t that fabulous? The ultimate surf-hippie icon, re-imagined for a low energy world. It was conceived a couple of years by the Canadian industriall designer Alexandre Verdier, but I only just came across it.
If you have a second, take a look at these great pictures in today’s Guardian from satellites of our changing earth… They’re from a new book called Fragile Earth. Scary they may be, but strangely beautiful too.
Did anyone notice that spot of good news last week? We’re so used to environmental news being relentlessly bad, but last week the UK government has calculated that British greenhouse emissions are down by 0.5%.
