Milk from dairy cows has a higher carbon footprint by any measure than any plant-based milk on the market, including soya, oat, hazelnut, cashew, almond, rice, hemp, pea, potato or coconut. Replacing some or all of the cow milk in your diet and reducing your carbon footprint should be relatively easy from a taste perspective,…
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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…
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.
February’s Workshop
Another interesting mix of people. It was really interesting to hear about one participant’s involvement in the aftermath of the London fires in July 2022 last year. It was shocking then but it’s a sad tribute to people’s ability to mentally adapt when we realise how the shock and the fear for the future after…
Plastic Microfibres From Our Laundry Shouldn’t End Up In The Ocean
Polyester and other man-made fibres make great cheap clothes, but they slowly disintegrate, shedding plastic microfibres every time they are washed. In fact cotton does as well, but the cotton will break down in the environment, unlike microplastics. The microfibres end up in the oceans, where they appear as food to planktonic micro-organisms and enter…
Buying Sustainable Flowers
Mothers Day is on Sunday, March 19th this year, so there is time to think and avoid being trapped into getting the most unsustainable flowers at the last minute from the supermarket. There are three major sustainability problems with growing flowers: To a certain extent, the first two are mutually exclusive – the reason for…
Simple Eco-Labelling – a Start for Sustainability
Keep an eye out for products using eco-labelling from Foundation Earth, using a simple green-to-red scale design and a grading from A+ to G. If it’s A+, it has scored highly in the audit with a low carbon footprint, low water usage, the resultant pollution too, and lastly having minimum impact on biodiversity (the buzzword…
How Chimneys Waste Heat
People who live in an apartment can safely skip this tip, but otherwise think of that fireplace and chimney. Unused, open chimneys waste heat, letting expensive warm air out and cold air in. King Charles has probably got chimney dampers on all his palace fireplaces, which can simply shut the chimney when the fireplace isn’t…
How to buy sustainably
These days it’s possible to buy stuff with shocking origins and impacts. We might not have time to be fussy about what we buy, or the money to afford the greenest option, but making an effort is the first step on the journey and nobody is expecting you to be perfect. We just have to put…
Support (1) a church going green and (2) pressure Islington Council on buildings
Two great easy eco actions you can take. ➡️ St Luke’s West Holloway is fundraising to get the last few thousand pounds needed to install solar panels on their church roof. Read more details about it here. You can donate via Stewardship as a guest without needing an account. Even a little donation will help…