Renewable Energy at Home

Which? Magazine recommends either Good Energy, Ecotricity or GEUK as the best providers of renewable energy to domestic households. With the massive price rises and the uncertainty in the market from the Ukraine war behind us, companies are now taking on new customers. Many people don’t understand the need for customers to move away from…

Bangladesh Workers Stitched Up by Primark, Next & Co

Recent investigations show that shops like Primark, H&M, Tesco, Lidl, Aldi and Zara have been paying suppliers in Bangladesh less than the cost of production for their wares, which means the factories are forced to pay their workers less than the minimum wage. Some of the poorest people in the world work in the global…

Sustainable Fish

Not a lot of people know this but species-rich, undamaged marine ecosystems actually draw down CO2 and sequester it through natural processes, which is very good in the fight against climate change. Over-fished marine ecosystems can cause greenhouse gas emissions in several different ways, including through destructive fishing methods such as bottom trawling – alarmingly…

The Big One

In case somehow you have not heard about the Big One, this is it: a huge demonstration at the Houses of Parliament involving originally Extinction Rebellion and now everyone from WWF and the RSPB to the Nurses Union and faith groups from across the land. Protest is the sixth pillar of climate action that every…

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the garden centre…

The government in 2022 banned the sale of bagged peat-based compost from 2024, which is a big step in the right direction and should save thousands of acres of peat bog in the country. Peat bog destruction causes huge amounts of CO2 emissions. When that law was passed, the government explained that the use of…

Grand Designs Workshop

I ran the climate fresk for a group from St Luke’s on Hillmarton Road at Bernadette’s house. She also helped me make the gingered carrot soup and baked some bread, so it almost seemed like a dinner party at times – it’s nice to have so many people paying attention to what I say at…

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Kid’s Climate Workshop

The kids at St Mary Magdalene’s year 5 class were all 9 to 10 years old. They did well, concentrating for a whole 2 hours. Teachers probably deal with this problem all the time but the issue of what to say and what not to say (about how rubbish adults are) made it quite challenging.

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