London disposes of 2 million tonnes of food waste per year. Because it usually goes to landfill and causes methane emissions, composting this instead could save 275 thousand tonnes of…
Author: Adam Hardy
Zoologist at heart. Environmentalist by necessity. Stage hand, financial trader, secretary, card payments designer, software developer, fossil fuel big data warehouse consultant. Amateur psychologist. Now climate change salvage engineer.
Your Local Coffee Shop Needs You!
We data scientists at EcoCounts have discovered a correlation between people drinking tea and coffee in coffee shops and a force for good in this world. Such customers supporting local…
Post-Truth Society and Reality Collapse
The EcoCounts film night with Asif Kapadia was an all-round success. To follow up in a small way, this eco-tip is about information. The amount of misinformation and disinformation that…
Urban Trees
Do you have trees on your street? If we suffer a drought or even if the tree is just young, watering them could save it from a parched death. Advice…
2073 and All That
This web page exists primarily to list stuff on the net related to Asif Kapadia’s 2073 screening in Camden on 2025-05-19. So you realise the way you thought the world…
Holidays with a Carbon Budget
If you’re lucky enough to be planning a holiday abroad this year, you can reduce the impact on your carbon footprint by joining the increasing number of people going by…
Springtime Gardening Issues
This week’s eco tip is from subscriber-gardener-naturalist Joy. This must be the third time this subject has come up, however the otherwise very green sector of gardening and growing things…
Chocolate Easter Eggs
It’s been a year since the last eco tip about chocolate, and since then, the price of chocolate in the UK has gone up 50% because of the increased occurrence…
Repair First
A new scheme has started in North London where residents can claim 50% off the repair costs of electrical and electronic goods from participating repair shops. In a circular economy,…
Local Wildlife and Nature
We benefit from nature and wildlife in the city in multiple ways: mental health, air quality, temperature amelioration, storm water run-off, community enhancement, education, recreation, tourism…. However sometimes we really…