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…
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…
I think you have to admire the musicians who’ve put their names to Live Earth. It’s not so much the committment to playing at a humungously huge world-wide gig. A twenty-minute set is hardly going to kill them. It’s the fact that by appearing there they’re opening themselves up - for the rest of their careers - to charges of hypocrisy…
At Festival time, Brighton is known for its Open Houses, selling art. Some of it’s great. Some of it’s… ah… interesting. Mostly everyone goes around to check out their neighbour’s kitchen extensions and tut at the wallpaper.
Ten top energy saving tips from the book Energy: Use Less - Save More: 100 Energy saving-tips for the home by Jon Clift & Amanda Cuthbert (only GBP 4.95 from my store by the way.)
