Archive for the ‘Media’ Category

News just in. I’m extremely chuffed to say Nigel’s Eco Store is officially one of Yahoo’s Finds of the Year 2007, winning the award for the “Shopping” category…

Trawling the web, I see The Daily Green suggests we all switch back to corded phones… remember them? Cordless phones, they say, are energy vampires. Plus there’s nothing more frustrating than being in a house on fire and discovering your DECT phone battery has gone flat…

Read more old-fashioned phones and new-fangled eco ideas…

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.

Apologies for letting this one drop for a while. I have, as I hope you’ll see in the next few days, been Very Very Busy.

But just to point out that Google are now doing their own Carbon Footprint calculator…

Eco-Worrier puts me in mind of Thurber’s grandmother who “lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house,” and went round placing electric plugs in empty sockets…

This recycled razor that I stock just got a nice little mention in The Observer:

What are your favourite songs about the environment?

I can think of a few:

“Vampire Blues” by Neil Young… about our love of oil.
“Cuyahago” by R.E.M. - about the Cuyahago Indians of Ohio.
“The Earth Dies Screaming” by UB40… about, er, the earth dying.
“Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” by Marvin Gaye… see above.
“Never Turn Your Back On Planet Earth” by Sparks… ditto.

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…”

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…