Fixing everything, really slowly

Melanie’s Bean Sprouts blog makes for interesting reading if you are interested in practical things to help the environment. Having changed our electricity supplier last year to npower’s Juice tarif I had assumed I was buying electricity from 100% renewable sources. It turns out I’m not …
Bean Sprouts - Melanie Rimmer
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… The electricity companies’ implication […]

Happy new year all!
I’ve just offset all the carbon emmisions from my flights last year (London to Florida for work, London to Madrid for work and London to Croatia for holiday). You should consider doing the same. I used carbonneutral.com and it was easy and informative. They explain it far better than I can:

www.carbonneutral.com
One single […]

As has been discussed in comments on my “light bulb action” posting devices such as TV’s, DVD players and set top boxes that are in standby mode rather than switched off waste power. This wasted power costs you money and generation of that power most likely released carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The simple solution to […]

Here is a chance for us all to be heard!
Energy inefficient light bulb petition: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/lightbulbs/
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to levy a tax on energy inefficient light bulbs so that their long term financial and environmental cost is visible in their retail price
(International readers this is a UK only petition but I think […]

My aim was to write about one good thing a week, I think that was a little ambitious to be starting with. Having got the hang of this blogging lark I’d say once a month would have been a better target, but I’m not going to fuss over it. Lets just say I’m behind, and […]

This is such an easy one, and it saves you money too.
Traditional lightbulbs use loads of electricty, newer ones don’t. This saves you about £7 pounds per bulb per year on your electricty bill. It also reduces your carbon emmisions which contribute the greenhouse effect. The bulbs cost more initially than ordinary bulbs but they […]

One of my hopes for this blog is to detail things I’m doing to make things better for the world.
That may sound pretentious (and I may cringe myself when I read this at some later date) but I think it is too easy in life to feel totally powerless to bring about change for the […]