Many people don’t know the following, many more ‘know’ but don’t remember but it is definitely good for your sanity to bear these in mind. (1) The end date when…
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 Yoda uses a Tumble Dryer
Tumble dryers use a lot of electricity. On average, a tumble dryer uses roughly 4.5 kWh of electricity per cycle, depending on the machine. At the time of writing, each…
UPFs – Ultra-processed Foods
If something is ultra-processed, it’s going to have a larger carbon footprint, use more water to make, most likely be associated with factory-farmed meat or diary and the pollution, come…
Diet and CO2 Emissions
The first of November was World Vegan Day, a reminder that a totally plant-based diet is the everyday reality for about 1% of the world population. Reducing our CO2 emissions…
Pesky Pumpkin Remains
Halloween sees people the world over getting creative with pumpkin carving and results in tons of wasted pumpkins if people don’t have the means, the time or the oomph to…
Green Banks
Santander, JP Morgan Chase, NatWest, the Bank of Scotland, Halifax, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, HSBC and Lloyds Bank all have one thing in common – they will put…
Home-made Home Cleaning Products
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…
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…
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…
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…