Archive for the ‘Good things to do’ Category

Next week we’ll be at the first ever Sustainability Show at the O2, London (formerly the Millennium Dome) - Friday 26th - Sunday 28th October.
So, come and…

I’ve been getting really excited about our new energy saving light bulbs.

Long gone are the days of one type of ugly low energy light bulb that sticks out the top of your lamp. These days you can buy a variety of energy saving equivalents in a huge range of shapes and sizes. Best of all…

I’ve heard so many good things about this book I really should give it a read. If anyone really popularised environmental activism in America, it was Edward Abbey; he was cantankerous, misanthropic, but often very funny.

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…

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…

This week is the last chance to see Lou McCurdy’s exhibition More Plastic Than Plankton in Brighton. McCurdy is an artist who spent a year collecting plastic flotsam from the beach near Shoreham Power Station. Out of the pieces, she has created a collection of strange creature-like objects.

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.)

So that’s what I should have done to stop my bike from getting nicked.