I was pleased to see nigelsecostore.com getting a mention for this one in yesterday’s Observer. I started out by stocking the kind of items that appealed to me. As time’s gone on, I’m trying to add more items for the whole family - like the Paperpod Rocket.
The fundamental problem with biofuels is already making an impact.
The Soil Association issued their annual report at the weekend during their Organic Food Festival in Bristol. Their director of food and farming Helen Browning noted an increasing shortage of organic cereals. She blames it on rising prices for soya, maize and grain created by America’s new hunger for biofuels.
I read this on Grist. A reader of the American environment news site watches British sit coms like As Time Goes By and Keeping Up Appearances. He has noticed how small British fridges are compared to US ones…
The Soil Association have been toying with the idea of removing organic certification from food flown in from countries like Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia on the grounds that freighting food overseas damages the environment. Airfreighted food has too high a carbon foorprint, runs the argument…
I recently came across a great series of photographs by John Lodei, who spent years travelling around Britian photographing small shops. He’s published the results in a new book called ShuttingUp Shop, about the decline of small shops in the UK. ..
I see that readers of Lucy Siegle’s article “Is this the end of the milk bottle” have reacted pretty much the same way as I did. Returnable glass bottles are by far the least wasteful way to go.
Until the 1970s, pretty much all bottles were recyclable…
There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle on the news over the last couple of days about these new organic milk eco paks, which use 75% less plastic than a one litre polybottle, with lots of headlines like “Milk bags could replace bottle…”
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…
Yesterday, I dropped by my local sandwich shop. I said to the owner, “I see you’ve gone all eco friendly.”
I was looking looking at his cardboard sandwich packaging. There was a sticker on it saying the pack is fully compostable and biodegradable.
