Polyester and other man-made fibres make great cheap clothes, but they slowly disintegrate, shedding plastic microfibres every time they are washed. In fact cotton does as well, but the cotton…
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.
Simple Eco-Labelling – a Start for Sustainability
Keep an eye out for products using eco-labelling from Foundation Earth, using a simple green-to-red scale design and a grading from A+ to G. If it’s A+, it has scored…
How Chimneys Waste Heat
People who live in an apartment can safely skip this tip, but otherwise think of that fireplace and chimney. Unused, open chimneys waste heat, letting expensive warm air out and…
Invitation to a Climate Fresk Workshop
Play Climate Fresk and be inspired, consoled and informed about the reality, dangers and demands of climate change. This is a collaborative workshop with a card game that teaches all…
How to buy sustainably
These days it’s possible to buy stuff with shocking origins and impacts. We might not have time to be fussy about what we buy, or the money to afford the…
Support (1) a church going green and (2) pressure Islington Council on buildings
Two great easy eco actions you can take. ➡️ St Luke’s West Holloway is fundraising to get the last few thousand pounds needed to install solar panels on their church…
January’s Climate Workshop
We ran a standard Climate Fresk workshop as an introduction to the climate crisis, involving a 1 1/2 hour session learning the climate science behind global warming from the UN…
How to cook pasta and save energy
The furore in Italy is a paygrade above the average Brit’s palette, but cooking pasta badly is easily done. Here is a method to cook pasta and save energy and…
Saved some Money, saved some Carbon
The Islington Climate Centre just posted a blog entry about our joint event earlier in November. TL:DR? Lots of talk about potential action through: energy efficiency, draught exclusion, community energy,…
Green Christmas Trees
Apparently, most plastic Christmas trees end up in the garbage before their fifth year. This makes them a very poor substitute, ecologically-speaking, for real Christmas trees. It needs to be…