http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog love talking eco stuff ... Fri, 11 May 2012 09:47:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/05/11/3-4-billion-litres-of-water-a-day/ http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/05/11/3-4-billion-litres-of-water-a-day/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 09:47:11 +0000 Nigel http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/?p=532 Every day 3.4bn litres of water is lost through leaky pipes. Customers are becoming more resourceful, now the water companies need to follow suite.]]> http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/05/11/3-4-billion-litres-of-water-a-day/feed/ 0 http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/05/04/inventive-ways-to-re-use-grey-water/ http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/05/04/inventive-ways-to-re-use-grey-water/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 11:18:31 +0000 Nigel http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/?p=516 It's been chucking it down with rain in the UK these last few weeks. Ironically it doesn't seem to have stopped since the water companies imposed hosepipe bans at the start of April. The water shortage won't be cured by this rain, but isn't the hosepipe ban a bit silly? It doesn't stop anyone using bucket loads of water, or flushing the toilet a lot...]]> http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/05/04/inventive-ways-to-re-use-grey-water/feed/ 0 http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/04/11/when-somethings-scarce-we-have-to-think-about-it-more/ http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/04/11/when-somethings-scarce-we-have-to-think-about-it-more/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:46:57 +0000 Nigel http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/?p=499 A couple of weeks ago we switched off our website for Earth Hour. Around the world millions of people and businesses turned their lights off together as a symbol of the need to do something for the planet. Turning our site off was a small gesture, but doing it made me think about things that are scarce. The news in the last few weeks has been full of...]]> http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/04/11/when-somethings-scarce-we-have-to-think-about-it-more/feed/ 3 http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/04/05/water-saving-and-the-hosepipe-ban/ http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/04/05/water-saving-and-the-hosepipe-ban/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:12:14 +0000 Nigel http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/?p=477 We've been selling an awful lot of hand pump water siphons, in the last week, after a mention in the Telegraph, and widespread concern about the hosepipe ban which came into force in the South and East of the UK today.]]> http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/04/05/water-saving-and-the-hosepipe-ban/feed/ 0 http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/03/30/what-were-doing-for-earth-hour/ http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/03/30/what-were-doing-for-earth-hour/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:23:07 +0000 Nigel http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/?p=464 It's Earth Hour from 8.30pm til 9.30pm this Saturday. We're 'going dark' in support. For those 60 minutes we'll be switching off our website, and]]> http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/03/30/what-were-doing-for-earth-hour/feed/ 0 http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/03/23/thanks-to-you-we-found-a-hand-operated-paper-shredder/ http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/03/23/thanks-to-you-we-found-a-hand-operated-paper-shredder/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:51:45 +0000 Nigel http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/?p=446 Over the last couple of weeks I've been writing about the new product suggestion box on our website. Something that's been suggested by Alex Porter via Twitter, and from Naomi through the suggestion box, is a hand operated paper shredder. We really like this idea. It feels like it's a common need.]]> http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/03/23/thanks-to-you-we-found-a-hand-operated-paper-shredder/feed/ 1 http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/03/20/the-resourceful-product-ladder/ http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/03/20/the-resourceful-product-ladder/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:18:36 +0000 Nigel http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/?p=419 We launched our new website last week. If you haven't checked it out yet, do have a look. We've been asking people to try our product suggestion box. Thank you, thank you to everyone who used it. We've had 19 product suggestions so far....]]> http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/03/20/the-resourceful-product-ladder/feed/ 0 http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/03/07/our-new-site/ http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/03/07/our-new-site/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:23:35 +0000 Nigel http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/?p=403 So our brand new website is now live. We've worked hard to get it up and running, and tried to keep the same resourceful, cluttered feel to it that the old site had. No minimalism here. We've been working on this for over 12 months now. That's when the first designs came through from the web ]]> http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/03/07/our-new-site/feed/ 1 http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/02/10/a-winter-greeting-from-netcycler-to-all-readers/ http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/02/10/a-winter-greeting-from-netcycler-to-all-readers/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:23:08 +0000 Nigel http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/02/10/a-winter-greeting-from-netcycler-to-all-readers/ http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2012/02/10/a-winter-greeting-from-netcycler-to-all-readers/feed/ 0 http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2011/08/04/how-will-our-children-cope-with-climate-change/ http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2011/08/04/how-will-our-children-cope-with-climate-change/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:37:31 +0000 Nigel http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2011/08/04/how-will-our-children-cope-with-climate-change/ Newsman, colourful tie-wearer and all round good egg Jon Snow has narrated a thought provoking animation by UNICEF and Do The Green Thing, Climate Kid.]]> http://www.nigelsecostore.com/blog/2011/08/04/how-will-our-children-cope-with-climate-change/feed/ 1