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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.

How Chimneys Waste Heat

A silhouette of a chimney sweep. Image by Steven Helmis from Pixabay

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…

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Published 2023-02-15
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips

Invitation to a Climate Fresk Workshop

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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…

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How to buy sustainably

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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…

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Published 2023-02-06
Categorised as ActionTagged anita roddick, body shop, ecotips, ethical consumer

Support (1) a church going green and (2) pressure Islington Council on buildings

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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…

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Published 2023-01-30
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips, energy, housing, retrofit

January’s Climate Workshop

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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…

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Published 2023-01-18
Categorised as ActionTagged climate fresk

How to cook pasta and save energy

Photo of a neon light saying make pasta not war. Photo by Natasha Polyakova on Unsplash

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…

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Published 2023-01-11
Categorised as ActionTagged cooking, ecotips, food, pasta

Saved some Money, saved some Carbon

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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,…

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Published 2022-12-23
Categorised as ActionTagged cally energy, islington climate centre, power-up north london, yoyu

Green Christmas Trees

A photo of pine tree branches with cone

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…

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Published 2022-12-19
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips

From Climate Vague to Climate Guru in 3 Hours, the Fun Way

People participating in a climate fresk workshop

To become a climate guru, you could read through the 5,000 page report from the UN IPCC, or you can take part in a Climate Fresk workshop, a collaborative, interactive…

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Cost of Living & CO2 Workshop Nov 19th

Photo of a woman cooking, cutting a basil leaf from a plant, by Tina Dawson on Unsplash
Photo by Tina Dawson on Unsplash

🌨️ 🎰 Take action on the cost of living crisis and the climate crisis in one go. 🌍 Come and find out about what we can do to deal with…

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Published 2022-11-01
Categorised as ActionTagged great big green week, islington climate centre, think and do climateers

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