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Links To Ethical and Environmentally Friendly Companies

Hi Guys, Hope you're all well. I've been delayed putting this on due to the lurgy but back in full force. The ideas board liked the idea of a thread for ethical companies so thought I'd better get my butt in gear and start it off with a couple of recommendations. I came across Ethical Superstore...

Article Fifteen ways to cut your carbon footprint - how many of these could you start doing

Did you know there are lots of ways we can cut our carbon footprint? There’s probably some you already do, and some are a bit trickier than others. But if we all took one or two more steps, how amazing would that be?Read on!So, ‘carbon footprint’ is of course a term used to describe the amount of gr...

POLL: Commercial fishing is the “biggest offender” to our oceans, does this change your fish eating habits?

This week marked World Oceans Day. The UK government has announced that Highly Protected Marine Areas will start coming into play by the end of 2022 to mark the occasion. Their purpose will be to aid the protection and recovery of marine environments. This is brilliant news, ocean pollution has been...

Halogen lightbulbs (for your home) can no longer be sold after September 2021...

No more halogen lightbulbs after September 2021, fluorescents to follow, and new energy ratings.hmmm...but does that mean no more incandescent lightbulbs at all as it would make no sense to sell incandescent lamps that aren’t halogen? (Halogen lamps are more efficient than standard incandescent lam...

What's the most you'd pay for a plastic bag?

It’s been a few years since the introduction of charging to get plastic bags in shops.Feels like a long time ago that we were given ‘free’ bags whenever we wanted.The BBC is reporting that the cost of plastic bags will rise to 10p from next April. And it’ll also apply to all shops, not just the big...

Do you use the water speed control on your shower?

Many showers have a flow control to increase or decrease the amount of water (and energy) you use. I wonder how people use this.Electric showers might have a fast and a slow mode, mixer showers might only have a single temperature knob, others might have one control for temp and one for speed.

Should gas boilers be banned to get to net zero?

There are new calls today for no more fossil fuel boilers to be sold from 2025 if the world is to achieve net-zero emissions by the middle of this century. And it would surely would mean new homes will not come with gas boilers.The recommendation is one of several from a report published today by th...

Getting hot hot hot

Spotted a graph on the BBC and it scared the hell out of me.Hot hot hot…..It’s in a BBC news report that the world’s at risk of hitting a ‘temperature limit’ soon - this is 1.5 degrees hotter than pre-industrial level.And this is the chart, using data from the Met office, NASA and others.Temperature...

POLL: Are you vegan or vegetarian or have you thought about it?

Hi everyone I spotted this really interesting article/report about how the global food system is 'broken'. The report, by the Interacademy Partnership, has found that the way we produce food is driving global warming and also leaves billions hungry. Studying the impact of the global food system o...

Are bees important and should we work to save them?

Hey everyone, On 20th May it was the 2nd ever National Bee Day, to raise awareness of this great insect and their impact on the world. Did you know (I definitely didn’t!) that bees’ pollination work has been estimated to have an economic value of roughly $235 billion annually worldwide and that...

See a map of the world with a whole new perspective

This is a pretty cool tool - a map of the world as you’ve (probably, maybe) never seen it before.It’s over at CarbonMap.org and allows you to filter a view of the world atlas by countries’ carbon emissons, consumption, extractions from the planet, wealth, poverty…. and much more.It looks like this (...

What milk should we be drinking?

Lots of us want to do our bit to help the planet, and increasingly we're turning to our diets to make a change - including what dairy we consume. According to this article, 1 glass of dairy milk produces almost 3x more greenhouse gas than any plant-based milk... but are the plant-based options rea...

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

Epic first episode about Greta and her climate campaign on the Beeb last night. There were some touching behind-the-scenes moments – as well as crisp, clear compelling (and, frankly, starkly scary) facts after facts. All three episodes in the series are on the iPlayer. Well worth a watch. https://ww...

Climate Crisis poll - Really interesting read, with fascinating results! 👣♻️

Climate crisis poll Some of the results quite startling!

Net-zero — a dangerous trap

https://apple.news/AzFahSUbjTOm5hVQwab2Zbw (Non-Apple folk can still click through to read).A long thought provoking article illustrating the insufficiencies of the current widely accepted ideas…What do you think?

Breathing easy?

You can now get a free air quality report for where you live, thanks to AddressPollution.orgJust pop in your postcode here.The site uses data from Imperial College and is part of COPI’s campaign to clean up the UK’s air. It started in London and has just gone nationwide.Every address in the UK now h...

Watch: Incredible new timelapse footage of Earth over the last 30 years

Hi everyone, Have you seen the amazing new timelapse, put together by Nasa and Google Earth? It shows our changing landscapes over the last 37 years...The clear impact of deforestation and rising water temperatures are what really struck home with me - the Dubai and Greenland timelapses in particula...

Greenest ever Easter article from BBC news

BBC News - Britain's electricity system 'greenest ever' over Easter https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56657299

Future of renewables - a bladeless 'skybrator' in the garden?

Not sure what the neighbours would think, but how would you feel about having your very own wind turbine at home?The ‘vortex bladeless’ is said to be able to harness wind power without blades.Vortext bladeless on InstagramIt generates renewable energy from vibrations. The Guardian reckons it has an...

When were you born?

I don’t mean the year.I mean your atmospheric CO2 parts per million. What was it when you came into being?I was born at 324 CO2 parts per million. (I’ll let you work out the month and year from that!) You’ll see it used more and more on Twitter bios, for example, as a way for people to show their co...

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