Nigel's Eco Blog

My Eco Blog

Nigel — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:48:32 +0000

Hi, welcome to Nigel's Eco Store eco blog. Running Nigel's Eco Store is an amazing opportunity to explore all things environmentally friendly. Find out more about our business, new products we come across, and the environmental issues I think about. I will be writing fairly regularly on all sorts of environmentally friendly (and other) topics. Please add a comment if you feel the urge - all feedback welcome!

Green Travel: Find an Eco Holiday

Nigel — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:33:15 +0000

Overcome the challenge of air travel. Go on a low carbon, eco holiday instead. We've teamed up with responsibletravel.com to help you find great holidays that are lighter on the planet. From stays in carbon neutral hotels, serving food grown in their own gardens, to weekends walking on the wild side of the French Alps, we have eco holidays to suit all desires and all budgets that you can get to without taking a plane...

UK’s first Geothermal plant at Eden

Nigel — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:48:09 +0000

I've just seen that the Eden Project has announced it will pioneer the first UK geothermal plant. Geothermal literally means "earth heat". The planned plant at the Eden Projects St Austell quarry, could provide heat...

Join in the Food Harvest

Nigel — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:34:09 +0000

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.

Energy Harvesting

Nigel — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:24:33 +0000

Someone mentioned Energy Harvesting to me last night. The idea of converting the small amount of energy that's generated from human motion into power for small gadgets and devices like phones. It's on the way apparently.

Climate Change and the Food we eat

Nigel — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:32:39 +0000

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...

Watching CO2 levels

Nigel — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:15:45 +0000

I just came across the rather disturbing chart below showing CO2 levels in the atmosphere at CO2NOw, and a link to a widget showing current CO2 levels - see above. (350ppm is considered to be the 'safe' level by the way).

Turn your lights off for one Earth Hour

Nigel — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:37:28 +0000

Turn your lights off on Saturday at 8.30pm for Earth Hour a global initiative from WWF to get 1 billion people to 'vote with their lights' and show support for the planet.

Age of Stupid: climate change film premieres

Nigel — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:38:58 +0000

This Sunday sees the launch of The Age of Stupid, the new UK eco-film which has already won several awards and excellent reviews:

Making Mother’s Day Meaningful

Nigel — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:47:59 +0000

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.