Archive for the ‘Carbon footprints’ Category

After a slow start, the issue of greener computing is beginning to gather momentum. Read my five suggestions for using our computers more efficiently…

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…

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%.

As my post from a few days ago said, recycling’s a great thing but you have to get it right. So that’s I’m really pleased to be able to start stocking recycled aluminium foil. It might not sound like the most glamorous of products but it’s a great example of why recycling is so important.

Apologies for letting this one drop for a while. I have, as I hope you’ll see in the next few days, been Very Very Busy.

But just to point out that Google are now doing their own Carbon Footprint calculator…

I had a great comment a few days ago from Claire, who had set up the car-sharing site Freewheelers with her partner about 15 years ago, and I thought it worth turning some of her comment into a post.

There is so much information coming at us now on how to save energy in the home. The Energy Saving Trust have a great site…

Lowering our footprint is going to be a mixture of finding new solutions, and going back to old ones. Sometimes new tech is good. Sometimes old works just as well. There, for example, are dozens of sites trying to harness the power of the internet to help us to car-share…

There was a really interesting survey published in The Guardian a few days ago about trust and green issues. It’s a wake-up call to anyone who lives in a green ghetto and thinks that everybody gets what the problems are.

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…