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Nigel’s Road Test: the Water Pebble Water Saver

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 by Nigel

The Waterpebble shower water saver
I’ve been using the Waterpebble to save water in the shower for the last ten days, and I’m really impressed by how easy it is to use, and how quickly it starts to help change my behaviour…


Nigel’s Road Test: Eco Kettle and Iron Descaler

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 by Nigel

Lots of limescale in this kettle…
I remembered that the folks over at Ecozone had sent me a sample of their Kettle & Iron Descaler to try, and so this seemed like a good opportunity to pit it against a tough challenge…


Turn over a new leaf during Green Office Week

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 by Nigel

Green Office Week

We are very happy to act as Ambassadors for Green Office week. According to recent Green office survey, over a third of office workers said would like to do more to tackle green issues in the office but do nothing eco-friendly at work as they aren’t


Winners of the Green Web Awards

Friday, February 19th, 2010 by Nigel

Green Web Awards 2009

At the end of last year, we asked you the public both to nominate and to vote on which on-line retailers, advocators, organisations, charities and social media really were committed to supporting the environment and which were just greenwashing… in the Green Web Awards, run in partnership by us and leading…


The future’s cardboard? New office desk sets sustainable design standard

Friday, February 19th, 2010 by Nigel

Paperweight desk

Last week designers Rod and Mary from Cardboard Future came by the office to show us their new Paperweight cardboard desk.

The desk looks like expensive design furniture, is 100% recyclable,


Recycled milk jug, for ethical coffee only?

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 by Nigel

Turns out one of the recycled Milk Bottle Milk Jugs that we


I’m a Finalist in Blog Awards!

Friday, September 4th, 2009 by Nigel

Tripbase Blog Awards 2009
Tripbase Blog Awards 2009


Join in the Food Harvest

Monday, May 18th, 2009 by Nigel

There are plans afoot. Real plans aimed at tackling climate change by getting us to become more local. Which means in the future we could all be taking local holidays, growing our own food, and generating our own energy.


Climate Change and the Food we eat

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 by Nigel

For the past few months I’ve been thinking about coming out more strongly on climate change. Some of my colleagues say don’t. That it will scare people off. But I’m starting to feel that I can’t keep my mouth shut whilst the threat of global warming and climate change escalates. Earlier this month an ice bridge in Antartica linking a shelf of ice the size of Jamaica snapped, a pretty significant indicator of…


Making Mother’s Day Meaningful

Thursday, March 12th, 2009 by Nigel

I don’t know about you but I always struggle with what to get my mum for Mother’s Day, (22nd March this year in case you’d forgotten). Most years she gets a hasty card and sometimes flowers, but I always wish I could come up with something more original, and not just send something for the sake of it.