The only dent in an otherwise beautiful Easter weekend was someone nicking my bike from outside my flat.
Now, anyone who knows me knows I’m all in favour of recycling, but not that kind.
But even that was unable to dent my mood. Yesterday - on a borrowed bike…
I was at a local get-together for people involved in ethical businesses the other night and I met Justin Francis there - one of the co-founders of Responsible Travel. He spent an hour telling me how they do business there, which was a) very impressive, and b) really, really useful. The Ecostore is burgeoning, but it’s a very competitive …
It being Easter, the topic is eggs.
This morning I boiled myself one using the low-energy technique I discovered on The Yellow House’s site.
To whit: Place egg in cold water. Bring pan to the boil. The moment it boils…
The Brighton Festival is coming up. One of the highlights of the fringe are the Open Houses, where people turn their houses into open galleries for three weeks in May to sell their art.
The Yellow House is a different kind of Open House. The Marshalls have created a website exclusively to show how they’ve turned their 1930s terrace into their dream eco-home…
There’s an excellent article by Jonathan Watts and Jess Cartner-Morley on the complex economy of the humble plastic bag in The Guardian.
“The apparent intractability of the plastic bag problem is all the more remarkable considering that our dependency on them is a recent phenomenon. Polythene was not even invented until the 30s, and plastic bags did not become common in supermarkets…
