Archive for the ‘Eco bloggers’ Category
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 by Nigel

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?
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007 by Nigel

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…
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 by Nigel

Last week the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called again for a “green revolution” and suggested that the UK could be aiming for an 80% cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Hurrah. That sounds promising.
Or does it?
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Monday, November 26th, 2007 by Nigel

Stephen Fry has been enthusing wildy in his Guardian column “Dork Talk” about the Eco Player, comparing it favourably to the Phillips Streamium:
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Friday, November 16th, 2007 by Nigel

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.
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007 by Nigel

OK… I’m still wearing the same jacket, but do you notice anything else different? Yes… I’ve revamped the look of Nigel’s Eco Store. I’ve been working on it for some time now…
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007 by Nigel

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…
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007 by Nigel

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…
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Friday, June 29th, 2007 by Nigel

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…
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Friday, June 29th, 2007 by Nigel

I’ve been trying the navy shower technique.
There’s a flaw. The trouble is, I’ve got a demand water heater.
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