Supermarket big brand cleaning products include an array of chemicals that don’t break down in the sewage works – even if the water utility companies leaves them there for a long time rather than just allowing the sewage to spill into our waterways and shores. This includes parabens (preservatives), phthalates (perfumes), triclosan (an antibiotic), phosphates,…
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.
Sustainable Clothing
The clothing industry is responsible for about 10% of global CO2 emissions. It also has a huge impact on water resources, labour and pollution, which involves a large amount of PFAS (‘forever chemicals’ that don’t biodegrade, but accumulate in the body). If you have heard politicians and economists going on about how best to tackle…
How to block Heat during Heatwaves
New climate research in the science journal Nature* shows how dangerously under prepared northern Europe and especially the UK and Eire are for the consequences of climate change and the need to keep cool in the unprecedented hot summers that are on their way. Rather than cranking an air conditioner up to full power, we…
Extreme heat – cities are struggling
The World Meteorological Organisation noted last week as Britons flock to their summer getaways that “parallel and stationary heat domes” have meant temperatures would top 40°C in parts of North America, Asia and across North Africa and the Mediterranean for days to come. This follows the hottest week in recorded history from 3-10th July, whereby…
Volunteer volunteer volunteer!
Organise! Organise! Organise! Join! Join! Join! One of the many ways to play a part in the fight against climate change is to volunteer your time and energy to help the organisations trying to mobilise society. Co-incidentally or perhaps not, EcoCounts is looking for a volunteer for this Saturday (July 1st 2023) to help at…
A Good Citizen
With UK elections probably in 2024 – the next general election is scheduled to be held no later than 28 January 2025 – the general public gets the chance to choose who sits in parliament. This is a crucial exercise in being a good citizen. There are many politicians and parties to vote for, including…
Empowering Change: July Workshop
We brought 10 people together to investigate what holds us back from climate action and what ways around it there are. In a nutshell, we covered all the facets of society that makes modern life so incompatible with climate action. We agreed on the need to promote social behaviours whose scarcity causes those incompatibilities, mostly…
Stroud Green Primary – Let’s Go Fresko
Stroud Green Primary in Finsbury Park agreed to draft me in with a team of Freskers to give their Year 6 pupils the Kids Climate Fresk workshop. There were 5 of us volunteers and 32 ten/eleven-year-olds, with their teacher Cheryl and their assistant teachers watching on the sidelines. Even these young kids can pick up…
Sustainable Tech
New companies are building technology like mobile phones and laptops with sustainability, recycling, reuse, repair and low emissions built-in. Fairphone produce Android-based mobile phones. I have one and have replaced the camera myself, amazingly. Framework a US company create a massively repairable 13″ laptop and are just about to roll out a 16″ version. The…
May 2023 Fresk Workshop Pics
We had 9 participants on Saturday last week (May 20th) and it went way over time. Everybody was motivated right to the end though so no worries there. The people who run Space4 provided their rooms again, so thanks to them 🙏 It was really good to see the team getting into the artwork –…