Archive for the ‘going going gone’ Category

The other day we received the above letter from Kellogg’s threatening ‘further steps’ if we continued to sell a recycled milk bottle jug with their logo on it….

Just found this great video ‘One Minute Recipe for Success at Copenhagen’ at…

Last week, the Isles of Scilly held a world first community effort to save energy. Over a 24-hour period - on Energy Saving Day (E-Day) - the island’s residents switched off all non-essential electrical items in homes, schools and workplaces, and took live online measurements of the results. By the close of play at midnight, the islanders had achieved

Turn your lights off on Saturday at 8.30pm for Earth Hour a global initiative from WWF to get 1 billion people to ‘vote with their lights’ and show support for the planet.

Not that this relates much to anything eco, I just got sent some interesting info by one of our suppliers (thanks Jim), and I thought I’d pass it on:

I stumbled across a couple of interesting articles recently.
The first was linked to a program that BBC2 made last year which divided Britain’s workers into 10 different pay brackets, which gave rise to some quite curious comparisons. Here are some examples…

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It seems to be summer in the middle of October and the economy is crumbling round our ears. But there is some good stuff going on, if you look closely. Here’s three excellent things that make us happy here at Nigel’s Eco Store…

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.

Take a look at these scary/beautiful/wonderful images of our changing planet, taken from space….

Species extinctions are news this week with reports that the Baiji dolphin that lived in the Yangtze River is now, apparently, no longer an inhabitant of planet Earth.