I’ve already given you my tips for a green Christmas, but here are comedian Ed Byrne’s opinions on how to recycle bottles without embarrassment after Christmas, where to put the blue ones from Bombay Sapphire Gin, and Santa’s carbon footprint - a special video recorded for recycle.com:
Ed Byrne- Recycle Now! - video powered by Metacafe
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…
It seems to be working nicely, don’t you think.
Of course I could always try this site’s approach. I wonder what would nightmare world could be created if Nigel’s Eco Store behaved like that…
What is it with bears? There have been a lot around recently. In Sudan there was the teddy bear teacher, while at the Tate Liverpool Mark Wallinger won the Turner Prize by dressing up as a bear - though actually he won it for his installation Sleeper, a recreation of Brian Haw’s one man protest against the Iraq war in Parliament Square.
Read on about George Monbiot’s bear protest…
Greenpeace asked the internet public to name a whale, to publicise its Great Whale Trail, following the migration of the magnificent humpback whales.
Read why it’s not going well…
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?
Stephen Fry has been enthusing wildy in his Guardian column “Dork Talk” about the Eco Player, comparing it favourably to the Phillips Streamium:
I realise that there’s already a generation younger than myself who wouldn’t have a clue where that headline was culled from. For them, that’s David Bellamy visiting Nigel’s Eco Store when I was running a stand at The Sustainability Show last month.
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.
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.
