I’ve just realised that all the stuff I wrote before we switched over to this all-singing all-dancing Wordpress blogging site seems to have disappeared off the face of the web. I know this because I was trying to find something I wrote in it ages ago about my carbon footprint, for something I’m looking to write about carbon footprint calculators…
I’ve been trying the navy shower technique.
There’s a flaw. The trouble is, I’ve got a demand water heater.
I see that readers of Lucy Siegle’s article “Is this the end of the milk bottle” have reacted pretty much the same way as I did. Returnable glass bottles are by far the least wasteful way to go.
Until the 1970s, pretty much all bottles were recyclable…
There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle on the news over the last couple of days about these new organic milk eco paks, which use 75% less plastic than a one litre polybottle, with lots of headlines like “Milk bags could replace bottle…”
Recently the pop singer Sheryl Crow was mocked globally for suggesting that toilet visits could be made more ecological if we only used one square of toilet paper.
Later she explained this was supposed to be “a joke”…
I was just trying to use DEFRA’s new online carbon calculator. I’d answered most of the “Your Appliances” questions, trying really hard not to cheat about the number of devices I leave on standby…
This time of year, an extraordinary fog descends on Hove seafront, south of the Nigel’s Ecostore nerve centre. In the evenings, if you walk along the beach, the sun descends behind a thin, smoggy haze.
This is the season of the barbecue…
Today’s mood is lighthearted.
Q. How many ecologists does it take to change a lightbulb?…
I know people who love to drive. I can understand that. That sense of power and motion, of eating up the miles, of seeing new landscapes from behind glass while some track plays on the stereo…
The Green Guy wrote a nice piece for The Guardian last week on using “smart meters” to shave un-needed watts off your electricity use.
Here in relatively eco-conscious Brighton, the smart meter seems to have created a whole new fun-for-all-the-family type game…
