Salmon is one of the UK’s most popular seafoods, yet its healthy, sustainable image obscures a troubling reality. As criticism of intensive aquaculture has grown, the industry has leaned heavily…
Category: Action
Climate Anxiety to Climate Action
Feeling overwhelmed about the climate crisis? You’re not alone. As headlines grow more urgent, climate anxiety is becoming very real. The key isn’t to ignore it, but to channel it…
Cut Your Energy, Cut Your Exposure
When global tensions rise, energy security becomes personal. Using less energy at home doesn’t just cut emissions, it lowers bills and reduces reliance on volatile fossil fuel markets all year…
Easter Eggs & Cocoa
Easter brings endless chocolate choices, but our Easter eggs have a bigger story behind them. Cocoa is increasingly under pressure from climate change, and the chocolate we buy can help…
AI
Grown adults who should know better are saying and thinking ridiculous things induced by either childish excitement or Machiavellian purposes, and often both. The worst part though is that many…
Food Resilience
The food industry’s focus on efficiency over resilience leaves us exposed to climate shocks, price surges, and shortages. These are risks that government reports warn could have catastrophic consequences as…
Veganuary Recap
Our EcoCounts Monday Feb 9 workshop looked at what we could take away from trying Veganuary. According to our calculations, a plant-based AKA vegan diet will cut your emissions by…
Simple, Delicious, Vegan
Roasted, seared, salty, grilled, caramelised crowd-pleasers can certainly come out of a veggie box. Don’t worry, vegans are not jealous of the best stuff in their diet. There’s plenty for…
Dressing Sustainably Smart
Every year in the UK, around 1.45 million tonnes of used textiles or roughly 23 items of clothing per person are discarded. When you factor in that producing just one…
Gas Boilers and Landlords
Come to our EcoCounts Mondays workshop on the topic on Jan 19th – sign up here on Eventbrite. Our EcoCounts data shows that domestic gas usage makes up on average…