A washing-up sponge might seem insignificant, but this is the result of a decade long search, including many false starts with expensive green products that were frankly ridiculous, e.g. a sponge with bits of crushed nutshell glued on top. Washing-up is a chore, so the tools have got to do the job and the tool…
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.
Vote for EcoCounts in the £5,000 climate prize draw please!
This week there’s a climate charity prize draw happening, where you vote for the charity you want to support, they put all the votes in a hat, and pull out 10 winners. Each winner gets £5,000 to fight the climate crisis. To vote for us, go to the link below, click “Nominate” or scroll down…
Induction Hobs
“Now we’re cooking with gas!”, they used to say – a quote from a North Sea gas advert years ago. Cooking with an induction hob is the way to go now though, to save energy and CO2 emissions. Induction hobs generate heat in the pan – no heat is produced unless a pan is on…
Local Co-ordinators Volunteer Role Description
Do you love working with people of all backgrounds & have a burning desire to do something about the climate crisis? We’re building a diverse group of 30+ people in our area. We need 3 or 4 locally-based leaders to help kick it off. Duration: 1 year (can always be extended) Location: in our six…
Laundry Detergents
This is a deep rabbit hole to go down. There are multiple ingredients found in laundry detergents for a range of reasons and with a range of impacts, i.e. this eco-tip is going to be a long one. Ingredients by function: Ingredients by impact: To do a perfect wash, you’d want to add the right…
Keep Peat in Bogs not Bags
Mushrooms, for peat’s sake? It seems Britain and Ireland’s mushroom growers use nothing but peat from our extensive CO2-storing peat bogs, adding to the continued decimation and massive CO2 emissions caused by the gardening trade. As part of its campaign to save our heritage from the effects of climate change, the National Trust has removed…
Love and Rage, Outrage and Optimism – July 2 Fresk Workshop Follow-up
It was a sunny Tuesday evening and great for doing a climate fresk, with the sun coming in through the big front windows of the climate centre. I was joined by Chris Heaton to co-facilitate and Anna who runs the Islington Climate Centre where we were hosting the fresk. Here is the resulting fresk, not…
Insulation and Central Heating
Together pollution reductions from government targets for home insulation and central heating would make up 18% of UK emissions by 2032, i.e. a big deal. Not everyone is going to be able or willing to afford this, so we have to hope the next government will take appropriate action. A lot of politicians and mainstream…
Climate Crisis Workshop June 2024
Like the previous workshop with the fire alarm half way through, we had problems again but the issues this time were more self-inflicted. Hopefully some of the attendees were able to walk away with at least half of the planned benefits and some greater understanding of why we are in this crisis and what people,…
World Refugee Day Raises Justice Concerns
On World Refugee Day, June 20th, the United Nations asks us to celebrate the right to seek safety, which refugees seek to exercise. Whether we welcome refugees in empathy or worry about the huge numbers predicted from the climate crisis, there is one ethical and practical dilemma we must never but frequently do ignore: do…