The sun is shining. People are wearing shorts. People who haven’t cycled for months are out enthusiastically mowing down young children on Brighton promenade. So what am I doing stuck inside, shackled to my computer?
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.
Here’s a lovely thing to watch to clear your head:
Whichever energy suppier you use, and Nigel’s Eco Blog has already waded deep into the sea of complications that surround that choice, it’s good to see consumers’ money being reinvested in stuff like this…
What is it with bears? There have been a lot around recently. In Sudan there was the teddy bear teacher, while at the Tate Liverpool Mark Wallinger won the Turner Prize by dressing up as a bear - though actually he won it for his installation Sleeper, a recreation of Brian Haw’s one man protest against the Iraq war in Parliament Square.
Read on about George Monbiot’s bear protest…
Stephen Fry has been enthusing wildy in his Guardian column “Dork Talk” about the Eco Player, comparing it favourably to the Phillips Streamium:
This story in The Guardian tickled my fancy. Andy Pag, a 24-year-old Londoner, is planning to drive from the UK to Mali in a lorry powered… by chocolate.
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…
Sigh. If only being green was simple.
Here??€�s a story. An old and valued customer emailed me recently. She??€�d read a note on my newsletter in which I recommended people check out the green energy companies Ecotricity and Good Energy ??€� both of which Nigel??€�s Eco Store has a good relationship with.
It being Easter, the topic is eggs.
This morning I boiled myself one using the low-energy technique I discovered on The Yellow House’s site.
To whit: Place egg in cold water. Bring pan to the boil. The moment it boils…
The Brighton Festival is coming up. One of the highlights of the fringe are the Open Houses, where people turn their houses into open galleries for three weeks in May to sell their art.
The Yellow House is a different kind of Open House. The Marshalls have created a website exclusively to show how they’ve turned their 1930s terrace into their dream eco-home…
