This week’s eco tip is from subscriber-gardener-naturalist Joy. This must be the third time this subject has come up, however the otherwise very green sector of gardening and growing things…
Category: Action
Chocolate Easter Eggs
It’s been a year since the last eco tip about chocolate, and since then, the price of chocolate in the UK has gone up 50% because of the increased occurrence…
Repair First
A new scheme has started in North London where residents can claim 50% off the repair costs of electrical and electronic goods from participating repair shops. In a circular economy,…
Local Wildlife and Nature
We benefit from nature and wildlife in the city in multiple ways: mental health, air quality, temperature amelioration, storm water run-off, community enhancement, education, recreation, tourism…. However sometimes we really…
Alcohol in Bottles
Until a national bottle deposit return scheme is created to enable re-use of glass bottles, they will remain the most energy-intensive packaging and transport option for alcohol. Large amounts of…
Recycling
While we won’t recycle our way out of the climate crisis, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t. If something isn’t recycled, then in order of increasing rubbishness, it will get incinerated,…
AI
AI servers are trained on huge amounts of public data and run on the cloud with 24/7 availability, requiring immense amounts of energy and water to run and keep cool.…
Waste No More
In the UK we waste about £250 of food per person a year, or 10 million tonnes in total, according to the sustainability research group WRAP. That includes waste by…
Buying Sustainable Flowers
The key to buying sustainable flowers is to have time to plan and avoid being trapped into getting the most unsustainable flowers at the last minute from the supermarket. There…
Someone Talking Rubbish? Do A By-pass
People talking rubbish about the climate, the environment, nature, or sustainability often makes us want to contradict them, but that is most often futile, and there is a better way…